Agency's ‘ | ana files. . Once again, not one of the files included a mention of Elena Garro's allegations. The House Select Committee on Assassinations learned that a Who first reported to) (Supra; p. 4.) The Commit- . tee also learned that{____| was] manuei Calvillo ~ who had hidden Elena Garro‘ and her daughter in a hotel ¢O ; A the day following the assassination. ( "pt 7) He also told Elena that Silvia Duran had been arrested el before this fact had become public knowledge. ¢tbéd5 Since a file review was inconclusive, the Com- Deron threat e mittee deetrtdedo arrange? interviews in Mexico with R-ben i saan’ Dw en, Elens and Ela: t. Carre, Silvia Duran, Lynn Duran, Emilio Carbillido and Betty er : : Serratos - The Mexican Government informed the House Select Committee on Assassinations that Elena and Elenita i Garro disappeared in 1968 during the student uprisings ‘4 fs and have never returned to Mexico. The officials stated 484 that Elena and her daughter might be in Spain. (Seer Mowteo City Beocedured Vinibe cpieie L. ) The Mexican government reported that Emilio Warballido could not be de found. (tht. ) The others were interviewed between RL , June 1 and June 6, 1978, 4+Ebim: ) Betty Serratos, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran and Horatio Duran all stated that Elena was not the dancing
type and therefore did not attend any of the twist qg7 parties at the Duran homes. . Jie PSST trys —————t_ «When Sivlia Duran was asked if Elena or Elenita Garro ever attended twist parties - ON at the Duran homes, she recalled Elena attending one twist party at Ruben's home in 1963 “hen the Garros ab ¥ returned to Mexico from France. HSER —Steks—Enterrbew fe) : 7 ? : rs 7 ent aor}, «= CAll the Durans denied that Lee Harvey Oswald had’ attended any party at one of their homes?” (String * cites.) The Committee next asked the Central Intelligence Agency to arrange WEAR interviews with (Manuel Calvillo), |(sune cobb) } ebong—withoe—tist—of Guttineneeocerenaadies who may have had information related to Lee is 99 Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico city) (¢ | The Central Intelligence Agency declined to aid the Com- a4/ | mittee inthis aspect of the investigation. eee Te The Commitee returned to Mexico city Mand attempted | va to locate June Cobb Sharp and Manuel calvitio¥e™ (Seer nee- -) Tfke/kestilis\ of “the
p71 The Mexican government told the Commit- tee that June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number 72781, on June 27, 1947 when she entered Mexico through Nuevo Lardeo. She asked, but was denied, permission to re- present the magazine, Modern Mexico. On | June 21, 1948, she received a courtesy per- it, number 25556. Furthermore, the Mexi- can government explained that she disappeared af? in 1954 and never returned to Mexico.’ (See ; | proseducal Weiteup—leip—2—Mericu-eity.) ay The Committee believes (ara hed Gar arEs wee that this information is incorrect. [ According to Ms. Cobb's CIA file,she worked for the poeney as an asset / in Mexico from 1961 through 1966) (CHEERED LO6S, Tune~Gebbefdle,201- ) Elena also stated that 475 Ms. Cobb resided at her home in 1964.  scupre p. qi The Mexican government told the Committee that. Manuel calvillo did not live’ at Cuchtemoc | fe 877- 5. as the Committee had informed foe theixn. / > - agent- in- charge had spoken to the super intendant at the apartments at which Lamuel Calvillo was Girth wag eee went Is believed to reside, ‘the superintendent who had Dow [F. ee0r0 { worked at the apartments for twenty-five years,
ya o X ~ bg - S | IS Saad that no Manuel Calvillo had ever re- oh sided there. When Committee staffers gave the © @ Mexican government Calvillo's pen name, the Mexicans gave the same answers. 99 ( pe lignes tHhef Wthere ty ao pessilalty © ! he Committee Fereextain that Mr. Calvillo lived at this address singe it acquired the address from a recent CIA 94 document. (CIAReporty—1576;—HMemret—Cetvitiv~&ile, 201= ) The Committee believes that there is a possibility GUS. Gastt agent Tequested tHe Mipicen selermmint that tee-Mentean-gqovernmen:seceived—oeders—from theca tradeLatettrociceaAyensy to refrain from aiding the Com- mittee with this aspect of its work. (See Procedural Write- Avo section Mil, e, Bz Lowry up Trip 2 Mexico City‘) The Committee made every attempt possible to locate . é. Elena. On July 7, 1978 Oo ommittee EEEFE>” telephoned . fa . . . pVapIREO Elsa's her publishey, Mor btz, in Mexico City and ‘asked about ‘Rez 444 whereabouts. (4662--Sia2li contacée Repost; F/I TS 7 EK —Do- Cument Nov—LOOLs ) The publisher stated that Ms. Garro . poo was living in the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Madrid, Spain. (iéépe. ) ; S.A.C.E. The Committee SeEEEEy telephoned the HotelVin Spain and ‘spoke to the manager who told him that Ms. Garro had 10° . ; moved. (G2 Limit) ASCE Stett-Contactr Report yt ey Jek—Bocumenrt-Not ==), On July 14, 1978 a Committee
IxeaErey Fiery called her publisher again and was told to con- fa e2 tact the Mexican Embassy in Madrid, Spain.- GHSeAStef f Cc )} The publisher stated that all Elena's payments were sent there because she did not even trust her publisher. poos with her address. ~<a) . . | The Committee eZ called the Mexican Embassy in Madrid, Spain and spoke to Adolfo Padilla, a Mexican employee of the Embassy who stated that when Elena had visited the Embassy a couple of weeks before to pick oestirute, 007 SX: up a check she ‘feeked financially Geer. & t * } He stated that when he asked Elena her new adcress she de- clined to give one, stating that she would return every . o 1a¢ few weeks to pick up checks and mail. (#brdv? The Com- mittee gave Padilla a telephone number and a message : ; joo asking Elena to telephone the Committee collect. (bids On September 5, 1978 Elena Garro called the Com- i | rr WAS. mittec.@isttan When AepeSESPPer Explained that the Com- mittee wished to talk to her in person and would pay ; Se to Phe United States both her daughter's and her travel from SpainY Ms. Garro I ; C Soram WhAl vr asked why she should believe the ister. was wero joo | — claimed to be. (#6@a—Steff-Corntact Reporty—37tAtsy EK hReeumert hore. ) the ‘S2feer asked Ms. Garro to call . back collect in the next few days when ‘he could explain
typ. to her when and wher® she could receive a Committee let- ' ter delineating why: the Committee wished to interview tao her. €€prds> “The Committee ‘wrote the letter and made arrangements with the State Department for:a letter to ( be hand-delivered to Elena at the American Embassy in jere Spain. I i On September 7, 1978, Elena Garro called the Commit- ; rot tee KESEESS and asked when the letter would arrive. CSC Stari Genbaate epee FITTER DOCUMENT NOT) ; sh. The Committee eEaETEH explained that ‘the—letter could Pick up the Icttec Keck up tht on Monday, September 11, 1978 from George Lo Phelan, the Counse? ior for Consular Affairs at the Ameri- Snhnh can Embassy. * te) Ms. Garro stated that she would get the letter on September 11, 1978 and follow our sotd suggestions. ttord=) Ms. Garro never went to the American Embassy in veil Spain to Gist the Committee's letter. Tasea—stett-comtact Reporter 9/15/14, SEK pocament No ). The Committee, | “hoping she would pick up the letter before her flight date, proceeded to purchase. air tickets ‘for both Elena fas” and her daughter. (Ht JFEDOCUMeRE Nowe) Elena did not ‘get the tickets at pole the airport. Wer State eomtect Reporter Son TST SEK . beer ABlz to Reaeio _De@unert“So ern} The Committee was not Vcontac te,
writ . x Ms. de Paz again. Chaclss The Committee also investigated whether“Thomas' "selection out" was related to the Oswald case. After interviewing his widow, Ms. Cynthia Thomas, the Committee ro | has concluded that his dismissal was unrelated. (SGA Stari f—erterriew-of-Cyrtitte—themasy——_——- pe KK In sum, the House Select Committee on Assassinations has; not been able to confirm the evidence that would indicate that Lee Harvey Oswald, on one night while he was, in Mexico, attended a "twist party" at the home og Ruben Duran Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia. Duran. In addition, the House Select Committee on Assas-~- Sinations has been unable to confirm the allegation that Lee Harvey Oswald travelled while in Mexico City with “two beatnik-looking boys." A lacar pact oF the / Committee's attemets to movestigats +thess tssucs Was met Luith Feus-tration. D. Oscar Contreras. Lactiqn Le On March 16, 1967, B. J. Ruyle, the American Consul in ‘Tampico, reported | to the American Embassy that he had spoken to a reporter hail, allegedly had met Lee Har- vey, Oswald at National Autonomous ‘University of Mexico (ote of {o ; city LCE) © in 1963. SPELT RT LMT SS YEO ET eae apf firm endemic jngenditioinaaaetatae |) Aftressing that he had oY only a Fleeting ‘contact with Oswald, ‘Ene reporte@jhad — ne see _ es
claimed to knowNonly about Lee Harvey Oswald's desire to travel to Cuba and the Embassy' s unwillingness to 7a? grant him a visa. (bird) When B. J. Ruyle asked the reporter for permission to cable the story to the Ameri- can Embassy, the reporter declined stating that he gut feared losing his job. (Tbrds) Subsequent to the assas- sination, the reporter had told his editor about his contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, who had advised him not 2% _ to report it. (bid) The reporter granted B. J. Ruyle permissign to cable the story to the american Embassy when Ruyle promised that it would be handled with the gous strictest confidence. (#btd.) Ruyle wrote that he thought the reporter was genuinely concerned about his - gae job. (#brd7) A letter from B. J. Ruyle to’the State Department dated May 11, 1967 providea additional details of the reporter's story.” (TECTET CO Westey Ur Povtes-chief-of itioat-attatrs; Office . cfaixs, 1, Dampico, SAL/62; wk 4261 entry P5977 Be ITT CTE AH .The reporter alleged that he and some fellow students had met Lee Harvey Oswald as they exited the Cineclub at ae ae the Escuela de Filosofia (School of Philosophy) at the pore ; National Autonomous University of Mexico. +tbids+ Oswald
told the group that he had gone to the National Autono-~ mous University of Mexico looking for pro- Castro stu- dents who might help him persuade the Cuban Embassy to go27 grant him a visa. -¢fbrd.) Oswald claimed that he was from California and was a member of a pro-Castro group . pod : in New Orleans. (frre=} Oswald remained with the stu- dents the rest of that day and evening; as well as the x go27 following day. (#brd-) The reporter described Oswald - as a strange and introverted individual who spoke very (ose little Spanish. (Sets ) Ory “Ehe State Department forwarded a copy of Ruy 1X! s letter to the Central Intelligence Agency." (#ire-eombttee contd not determine when the Ghate-Dopartmont fonwanded—the-hetter-to-tine- CEA. ) On June 14, 1967 ,CIA Headquarters sent the Mexico City iosZh Station a copy of Ruyle's letter to Bowles. (®rspetch ct A Head quecters F o & ae _ considered Ruyle' s report "the first ‘piece of substantive. info about Oswald' s sojourn ‘in Mexico" since the assas~ pos = sination. eit) Consequently, Headquarters cabled that enough EB understood the source's renctance to ‘become involved “the fact remains that this info cannot pos continue to be withheld or concealed." +thi-d- ) Head- quarters instructed the Mexico City Station to elicit ; eas. the identity of the source from Ruyle. In addition,
Headquarters asked the Mexico City Station to bear in mind, while interviewing Ruyle's source, that Lee Harvey [036 , Oswald was a homosexual. 4Ebid-) The final sentence of the dispatch, "It is our hope that the facts obtained through these interviews will help to confirm that several of Garrison's allegations about involvement of anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA, ete. are false," (eid. ) explained the Central Intelligence Agency's motives for purtging the story. On June 29, 1967, the Mexico City. Station cabled - Headquarters that a station officer had gone to Tampico : . /o3% where he had interviewed Ruyle's source, Oscar Contreras. ; ‘ - 7099 ported that Contreras was a reporte€ for EYSol (a news- paper, The Sun) in Tampico; was circa 30 years old; married ,with three children; studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1960 to 1964; belonged to a pro-Castro group at UNAM; was per-- secuted by the Mexican police. for this affiliation and , Se pst? a ode ( tove) ; moved to Tampico to escape the persecution, .(able—frem ee poe ’ ’ 1 r Contreras told the Mexico City Station official poul that he and four other individuals (Wher-tentreras—was
Gace eera ame permy ,) had met Oswald as they exited a roundtable discussion held at the School of Philosophy at uNAM?” (cable from Mexico City to Director, MEXT 1950, 6/29/67; ra 7241, entry # 622, p. 118, CIA #74S) Contre- ras stated that Oswald had made inquires on the UNAM _ campus about pro-Cuban groups and had been directed to we? his group. *T5frm.) Contreras reported that though the group initially mistrusted Oswald fearing he was a "CIA provocation,” they allowed Oswald to remain with them , pot that day and night and part of the following day. tbe.) Contreras noted that Oswald never mentioned assassination but kept emphasizing that he had to get to cuba cxbee. ) In adSition, Oswald had exhibited no homosexual tenden- cies while he was with the group.’ bid.) On July 4, 1967, Headquarters cabled the Mexico City Station that Contreras’ story should be explored to the fullest even though he might have fabricated it.°77 $946) Headquarters . SO a 1ofe suggested that the FBI handled, the story. ¢fbit.) The following day, July 5, 1967, the Mexico City Station
, N ban 8 cabled that.it preferred turning Contreras' case over te ¥9 to the Mexican authorities and to the F.B.1. (@eble Ty ; i i i ran 67, MEXT 1991; WX 7241, Entr Over to—the-Mexicanaushorities and the-E-B-t-—tCable . WE-T24T, Entry 627, p. LI9;-ctaA-#446.) The same day, the Chief of Station informed the Legat of Contreras' story, but asked him not to take any action without ~previousty consulting the Mexico City Station. tremco ; ret Ti; WX 72xX1, en 628; p. LIU, Cra-+7+46~-) On July 10, 1967,| | wrote a memo delineating the results of a Mexican government jos! review of Oscar Contreras' file. (lemo-trom| re Gere = =According to the memo, a lone Oscar Contreras appeared in the UNAM law school records, Oscar Contreras Lartigue, deb 2/14/39 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. (esrer7) The memo also reported that a newspaper article -appearing in “Excelsior” listed an Oscar Contreras as- a signer of a protest for the Blogue Estudiantil Revolu- psd . ost . cionario which had been formed mid-1961. ¢$b24-) {The
HugqeccGastre—— - p—AQtonio Tenird™Adame, suerrice;-Carlos_ Ortiz Fijeda/“paniel . Holma Balvez; Humberto Hiriante, 0 car Gonzales: Hibay SXCia, Pedro- -Saing -Cepedas= Alberto ‘ ae dSS EC eared Eg ardo- Pay Scualy~swan~Sa capt Meme IRE TL LOTTA HEE ES a7 Visente LVi. lamas,~Rubi ps (TapSraie~and. Jesus > ey.) The memo speculated that Contreras probably 1 ae signed the protest as a front man to protect the real os§ 7 leaders of the group. teste.) The Mexico City station _ called the information to Headquarters the following tos day, June 1l, 1969. (Béspatch—fromMexice—City to Director, HNMR 13 2409¢—Fy bt OT -WIOT DS EIery A635, p- & d Th C nar ere has determined that the Centra | é own $ wef Agency’ PAGIA reteces Tia osear Cantrera Teateil qeace bevt i ‘ alles a. Fons a " ofo fice that Several of Garrisers “5 ; — fo) 5c, /oS7 { + of ant Castes Cubans ) the CrA, ete. “ee pavo fetes rs) w | | ; +e cik Meeico City St—tiom officials jactersste ee i ao ‘ tot could be wi th. Contreras revecle d po dtavan / pe: i | aa al ron Hornegh prac heless, The AN Lea freee to frllso the shy 3 so att a tewed PS +t y \rterwitwse d He Key weteess meet are stress fon ef Posen T the. jan frmetion -fo fhead qvacrters exped: G 2 " x, P* S5e8grnu aS te pected