124-10003-10487 AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10003-10487 RECORD SERIES: MX AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-3702-415, 416 DOCUMENT INFORMATION 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: 12/23/1998 UPDATE DATE: 11/03/2000 STATUS — Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(A) JFK Act 6 (1)(B) COMMENTS: INC MEMO, LHM HY 50953 Docld: 32114613 Page 1
Hie Ay $, K) ete ) sheer ¢ JDIRECTOR, FBI (105-82555) 3/10/64 ene LEGAT, MEXICO cITy (105-3702) (P)aey, eronuaTron comrarmED os MERI 18 UNCLASSIFIED BEOMPT GUERE SHOWN OTHERYISE. LEE HARVEY OSWALD, aka 8 Is - R.- CUBA . CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFIGATION AND/OR, 13 OF LO Classified by ae id teens vases = ‘Bxempt from GU arte ee “ENCLOSURES: Date of Declafnyiieet outa. eT PAL-7? Enclosed for’ the Bureau are 307 copies of a letter- head memorandum dated and captioned as above, REFERENCES : leo City letter dated 1/13/64; Bureau cables dated 1/2676 and BA 12/64; Mexico City cables dated 1/27/s4 and 3/5/64, re allegations of YLARIO ROJAS VILLANUEVA; San Antonio cable to Bureau, Dallas and Houston dated 1 2/22/6l F Houston letterhead memorandum dated 2/28/64, ADMINISTRATIVE: Copies of enclosed letterhead memorandum were d e r ; seminated local %O assy/ and to CIA. ((p oh e S1lowing\ inf grmaton was receiv rom WINSTON M, SCOTT, “Head of the CIA: rat Lo m, Mexico City, memorandum 2) dated 1/20/64 to Legat, Mexico’ Paty. marked "SECRET," cap- tioned "LEE HARVEY OSWALD" and is being set forth in the cover letter, along with emorandum mentioned below date 2/18/64, (in view of orA's|Pogueot that the information was/fLU not to be disseminated otitside this office without prior approval of the originatin office in Mexico Clty: 2 aa This memorandum \set forth that on 1/17/64 a ee was received an] Soa ibative in Merida, yucatan g] (§ a of, Geis 5 = Bureau (Encs. - 30) ; 1 - Liaison Section 34) AC 2+ Dallas, 100-104 ae IGP Ag Hexion 4B on my [PP gone ‘aa FE. “Hi FA Le ee Declasnily ons. “OAR. 4 HY 50953 Docld: 32114613 Page 2?
: SECRET MG 105-3702 fe) deseribed by | SOLIS as: 30 years old, 5' 8", about 185 pounds, stocky, ‘skin: 'moreno,! black straight haix, 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.( "Neither. Daniel. SOLIS’ nor. any of several other contacts in: Cozumel. have heard of ‘Albert. af “By sncrandum dated 2/18Z directed to the L , ‘Mexico. city, es WINSTON M. SCOTT, eh’ esas marked "SEC ' Sas ddttional: in? set forth . Doo Wis p . SOLIS. was reinterviewed tn 1. February 196 ‘furnished the following ip ' oration in. to questions asked him: [ . "SOLIS states ae Fee has" not received either of the two letters Eladio VILLANUEVA claims ‘to have © sent him réecently.. . "SOLIS: again stated that he does not have any notebook ‘belonging to VIELLANUEVA. He said that if co such .a.notebook came to him he would forwand Lt. to the address given. "SOLIS stated that, according to His recollec- tion, VILLANUEVA arrived in Cozumel in. June 1963 and > lert: (about) 4 July 1963 aboard a ferryboat ‘Alberto! \-> - for Puerto Juarez. SOLIS recalls now that he had received some . three (3) letters from VILLANUBVA. ‘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 cme to repay the 500.pesos ($40 U.S.) he had loaned VILLANUEVA:, SOLIS.said he never heard from. VILLA~ NUEVA after that. "mm one of the three letters, VILLANUEVA asked SOLIS if he would 1liké to:be a 'secret police agent! in Cozumel. SOLIS has no other information concerning SC? this. - m= gre ~ 3m HY 50953 Docld:32114613 Page 3
SECRET "SOLIS contends he had no information on pos~ MC 105-3702 sible contacts V or Americans in Cozumel. A might have had with Cubans me GP 4 , "SOLIS said that when VILLANUEVA was not. work= 4ng.as an 'albanil!. (bricklayer), he spent his time fine weeding and cutting brush at SOLIS' home. ¥. was usually in: the hammock by 2030 hours. SOLES. aris ena VILLANUEVA sometimes visited the Mayalum Nightclub’ (X together; JEVA aad not appear to be such of a, "g0L18 said VILLANJEVA: arrived in Cozumel with - a Sergeant Second Class 'POLG,' ‘'POLO' was arriving at anew assignment at the Cozumel Military Base; ‘VILLANUEVA claimed to have met. 'POLO' in Mexico City. 'POLO' came to SOLIS' house tyjce ter vinnaNuEvA (KO) | left, looking for VILLANUEVA . | ; "SOLIS claims. that the three’ letters he neveivey > from VILLANUEVA have all been burned. i a SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA advised that after he. interviewed DANIEL SOLIS at. whe: chy SOLIS hinted that he mi rning the length. of ROJAS have misinforme stay in Cozumel e of possibly protecting his relative, ROJAS, who is actually the uncle of SOLIS' wife, and also because. he paid Agtle attention to the actual length of ROJAS' stay. t a It is noted that other items contained ROJAS! 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, Customs Investigator, U. &. Treasury, Laredo, Texas. Upon interview 3/5/64, ROSAS 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 ‘stationed at Laredo, Texas. By cable dated 1/25/64, the Bureau requested. that Ww efforts be made. to arrange a polygraph examination of ROJAS FO. . ° us “- 36 QR Agen in M3 > HY 50953 Docld: 32114613 Page 4