. AGENCY: RECORD NUMBER: RECORD SERIES: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: AGENCY INFORMATION FBI 124-10158-10018 HQ 105-82555-2606 } DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG, MX TO: DIRECTOR, FBI “TITLE: DATE: 03/10/1964 PAGES: 6 SUBJECT: LHO, POST-RP, SIGHTING, NUEVO LAREDO, MX f DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW _DATE: 02/01/1994 UPDATE DATE: 02/12/2001. STATUS Redact | RESTRICTIONS: Consultation JFK Act 6 (1)(A) JFK Act 6 (1)(B) JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: REFERRED TO CIA, US CUSTOMS HY 50953 DBoctd: 327165493 Page i
ad . * ~~ ; ee Satie! * . Y » . oY . OPTIONAL FORM. No. 40 9010-06-03 _ MAY 1962 EDITION + GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27 5 . ‘ : . if | UUITED STATES GL 3RNMENT | | Memarandian a R sc TO DIRECTOR, FBI (10 a as . DATE: 3 5/10/64 ROEATE AG Py FROM : [phen MEXICO CITY (105-3702) (P) a : _ = ; "(Sg BORES " > Ww LEE HARVEY “OSWALD, aka Ss -"R = “CUBA | Enelosed for the Bureau are 20 copies of a Letter- head memorandum dated ang captioned 3 oy —— 3 REFERENCES: Mexico cit letter dated 13/64: Bureau cables ) dated 1/25/64 and 2/12/64; Mexico City cables dated 1/27/64 co N _ ks and 3/5/64, re allegations of YLARIOVROJAS .VILLANUEVA; San \) WV) 4Antonio cable to Bureau, Dallas and Houston dated 2/22/64; \: fs \ Houston Letterhead memorandum dated 2/28/64. u/29143 wa . go a Lia; 2 Classified py 2% Sid \ a \ ADMINISTRATIVE: ~ waite ~ Daclassify on TDR ke. YR * Copies of encloséd—letterhead memorandum were dis- rge e atatfaires | of the ‘BnbassyLand U Mitana-st aif ee ty ¥ seminate pore gO the Cha hy: ie Follow informat was received/from WINSTON - Ka M, SCOTT, Head of t IA(Station,} Mexico City, y memorandum (iq) >» UVa dated 1/20/64 to Led : Mexico City, rico (@ CRET," cap- «4 tioned "LEE HARVEY SswaLD" and is being set forth in the oS cover letter, along with e memorandum mentioned below dated ~ SF ¥ 2/18/64, in view of CIA's#request that. the information. was f&) not to’ bé disseminated outside this office wi t prior ee 3 i. x4 Baty ta) io «A om ao approval of thg_o igi office . Th emorandum set forth that on I 7/64 a reply, a ¢ eceived] frop = ) . Ine gherhayeer SES Svs Ps — aM sa oy LE AG Gan ie 0 — © 47 bureau (anes. = 30) a MS Sao: “Liaison /S¢epjon _£ SY) ie ely Sip cityia poe pestis i) GYRE. HW 50959 Docld:32165493 Page 2
“ . . ¥ , : * ° Sd ‘ | MG 20203708 SECRED described by SOLIS as: 30 years old, 5' 8", about 185. pounds, stocky, skin 'moreno,' black straight hair, mustache and with a long face. He usually. works as a chauffeur.or farmer. SOLIS said Eladio VILLANUEVA. Ramirez did not seem subject to aberrations. ~¥/v / ; "Neither Daniel SOLIS nor any of several other & contacts in Cozumel have heard of ‘Albert.'" oD By memorandum dated 2/18 O4 directed. to the Legat, Mexico City K from WINSTON M, SCOTT ##iich memorandum was marked "SECRET," the following add{tior ormationwas {o> ae Jf a | TEIySOLIS was reinterviewed in ‘February 1964[by : arc furnished the following information in zepiy Gl "SOLIS states he has~not received either of - | : the two. letters. Eladio VILLANUEVA claims to have — & > sent, him recently. — . . (ve. "SOLIS again stated that he does not have any — notebook belonging to VILLANUEVA. He said that if ¥ (DD such.a notebook came to him. he would forward.it to. —_ the address given. So . SO , "SOLIS stated that, according to his recollec- _ tion, -VILLANUEVA arrived in Cozumél in June 1963 and . left. (about) 4 July.1963 aboard a ferryboat ‘Alberto! A(we) for Puerto Juarez. - a “i... "SOLTS recalls now that he had received -some three (3) letters from VILLANUEVA. These were mailed ‘in Guadalajara and were sent in the months~ immedi- ately: following VILLANUEVA's departure from Cozumel. SOLIS said he answered all three, and in the last ~ letter SOLIS wrote to VILLANUEVA he asked VILLANUEVA to repay the 500 pesos. ($40 U.S.) he had loaned. — _ VILLANUEVA.: . SOLIS said.he never heard from VILLA~ . Ke NUEVA after that. mt . . . "tn one of the three letters, VILLANUEVA asked SOLIS if he would-like to be.a 'secret police agent! in Cozumel. SOLIS has no other information concerning xD this. | | 4 HY 50953 DBoctd: 327165493 Page 3
Jf a is L | ~. ~ ‘ ( Mc. 105-3702 SECRED ~ ! "SOLIS contends. he had no information on pos-: sible. contacts. VILLANUEVA might have had with Cubans or Americans: in Cozumel. K(u> - "goLTS said. that when: VILLANUEVA was not work: . . ing as an ‘albanil' (bricklayer), he spent his time weeding and cutting: brush at. SOLIS' home, VILLANUEVA was usually in the hammock by 2030 hours. . SOLIS and VILLANUEVA sometimes visited the Mayalum Nightelub 7 together; VILLANUEVA did not. appear to be much of a LoD “drinker. . . . “"gobrs said VILLANUEVA arrived in Cozumel with a Sergeant Second Class 'POLO.' 'POLO' was arriving at a new assigninent at the Cozumel Military Base;. . VILLANUEVA.claimed to have met.'POLO' in Mexico City... _ POLO! came to SOLIS' house twice after VILLANUEVA in left, looking for VILLANUEVA. (oD . "SonTs: claims: that the ‘three letters he received from. VILLANUEVA © have all been burned. SA JOSEPH B, GARCIA advised - that after he interviewed, have misinformed stay in Cozumel » SOLIS hinted that he might cerning. the length. of -ROJAS! e of possibly protecting his relative, ROJAS, who is actually the uncle of SOLIS! wife, and also becausé he. ‘paid 14 bl, attentic , to the. agtual J Length. of. -ROJAS* stay. - Ce : oat -, ea ot ‘It $8 | noted that other items contained in fOJAS"- notebook, which was obtained from SOLIS in Cozumel, were call- ing cards, one of which’ had the name on it of WALTER A, GATES, Customs: Agent, San Diego, California, U. S.. Treasury Depart- ment, and the: other card had.the name on it of REY L. HATCH, U Customs Tavestigator, Ue.” ‘5... Treasury, Laredo, Texas.’ oo ‘Upon. interview 3/5/64, ROJAS advised he: cannot recall who these persons. are nor how he came into possession of their calling cards... For information, it is known that HATCH is a U..‘S. Customs Agent who was and may still be Uv stationed at Laredo, Texas. By. cable dated 1/25 feu, the Bureau requested tha examination of. Pty (8 efforts. be made .to gated 7/8 oe HY 50953 Daoctd:32165493 Page 4
HY 50957 _ MC 105-3702 sare i te | | a © ss assassination plot of President KENNEDY was fabricated by him, no further investigation is being conducted in the ROJAS y matvéer ay - It.is noted that the original of the signed state- ment. taken from ROJAS by the members of the Mexican Federal Security Police at Guadalajara on 3/5/64 is contained in Ca. the 1-A section of this file in this office. = :) « eee a : SOURCES: © ‘The confidential source abroad referred to in enclosed memorandum is SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA, who conducted in- vestigation at Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico, and Mexico City, ‘and who, along with SA EDWIN 0. JOHNSON, conducted a joint interview of ROJAS on 1/22-23/64 at Guadalajara, and _to whom, along with SA.HENRY J. PRATT, ROJAS admitted on 3/5/64 at \) Guadalajara, Mexico, that he had never known OSWALD. , _ Whe. second. confidential source abroad mentioned in enclosed letterhead memorandum is SA_ EDWIN 0. JOHNSON. . “CLASSIFICATION: -  Jhe.enclosed letterhead memorandum has been classi- fied "CONFIDENTIAL" in order to protect our foreign operations. |) COPIES: - — | | | Two copies of erniclosed letterhead memorandum are designated for Dallas as domestic office of origin. LEAD: ~ oo MEXICO CITY SC oo, At. Mexico, D. F.: Will continue to vigorously and immediately handle ail Investigation growing out of leads in UV this. case and report. results promptly. 7 Boclda: 327165493 Page 5