Doc ID: 6598250 my EQ ep Bate: 03/26/97 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY : NSA RECORD NUMBER : 144-10001-10099 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : NSA FROM : NSA HCF -ER4 TITLE : 3/0/| _/11396-63: TEXT OF CUBAN LETTER OF PROTEST TO MEXICO [R] “DATE: 11/30/63 : PAGES :°2... ee I DOCUMENT TYPE : REPORT ~“~------...... CLASSIFICATION © Toe RESTRICTIONS = YBO EE i CURRENT STATUS : X 44USC2107(5)(9)(2)(D) DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/10/93 bai) OPENING CRITERIA : ORIGINATING AGENCY'S DETERMINATION REQUIRED COMMENTS : Released on 11-01-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
‘Doe 106598250 | “TOP SECRET DINAR Cuban [| ws 17392  ~—-3/o/|__ 1396-63 I | IS 30 Nov 20252 P ve, Dist: HCF ST 300 ° 29 Nov 63 TEXT OF CUBAN LETTER OF PROTEST TO MEXICO The following transcription: is the text ‘of the note. : presented on Tuesday night to the Mexican Embassy. for the ‘maltreatment of the employee of the Cuban Consulate in Mexico, City,. SILVIA DURAN, in relation to the request for a transit visa made by. LEE: _ HARVEY OSWALD. was . ; 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) Regards, “ ‘I have the honor of addressing myself to Your Excelléncy in order to expound the following: Our embassy in the Republic of Mexico has informed this Ministry that the employee of our consulate in Mexico City, Mrs. SILVIA DURAN, of Mexican nationality, was detained by agents of the Federal Police of your country, and also her husband, on the night of Saturday,-23 November, and that, furthermore, her home was violated, a search having been made of it, She was kept in prison wtil approximately midnight and during her detention she was submitted to a violent and coercive interrogation in relation to the request for a transit visa made to our consulate in the month of September by . the United States citizen, LEE HARVEY OSWALD, accused: of the assassination of President KENNEDY. ; Mrs. SILVIA DURAN told the aforesaid agents all she knew, adhering strictly to the truth; in spite of which she was the object of censurable treatment, going as for as to make despicable insinuations and asking her about supposed personal Cuban | 3/0/| _}r1396- 63 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS 2 PAGE(S) Released on 11-01-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
Doc ID! 6598250 TOT SEGRE t—DIN? Wi Cuban 3/0f_ _{T1396-63 bantam ns a ae, Se relations, even intimate, with Mr. OSWALD. - Furthermore, she was physically mistreated by the agents of the Federal Police of your country; as a consequence of which, she bears bruises on her arms, The Revolutionary Government feels that the gross,\ illegal and unjustifiable manner in which the police arrested and maltreated Mrs. DURAN corresponds to the plan of the reactionaries that, in the United States, planned the assassination of ‘KENNEDY to promote a policy of retrogression and was continued on. infamous accusations against Cuba and other countries. The gravity implicated by the conduct of the aforementioned police agents cannot be dismissed by the Government of Cuba, which considers this act a flagrant complicity of the members of the Mexican Police with those who treacherously tried to \ involve our country in the filthy: crime, [aUSCDTOT EOD) . (iii) The dispicabilities, coercious and physical aggressions of which an employee of our consulate in Mexico City has been the victim, constitute not only a criminal act which challenges the judicial authorities of your country, but also the ignoring of the minimal guarantees to which are accredited all the officials and employees of a consular office. ‘The transpired events are, besides, totally unfriendly toward Cuba. _ Therefore, the Revolutionary Government. ‘of Cuba feels itself in the right and with the duty of presenting before the Government of the United States of Mexico this protest and stating to your illustrous government that the perpetration of these acts damage the friendly relations between both Governments, the maintenances of which have been of profound and demonstrated interest to the people and the Revolutionary Government of Cuba. . I take this opportunity.‘to reiterate to Your Excellency my highest esteem. oe . RAUL ROA,’ Minister of Public Relations, Republic of Cuba MS -- wf] om ~2- “FOP SEGREF DINAR