AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : . DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 327106433 Page 1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information CIA _ 104-10006-10014 JFK 201-289248 Document Information FBI FBI REPORT THAT OSWALD ATTENDED PARTY GIVEN BY RUBEN AND SYLVIA DURAN IN SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER 1963. 12/11/1964 5 DURAN, RUBEN PAZ, ELENA MEXICO CITY DURAN, SILVIA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified Consulted; 1B Redact 06/16/1993 OSW12:V52 1993.06.16.16:57:56:620000: Date: 4/27/20)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ; FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON 25, D. CG. w In Reply, Please Refer to . & File fo. : December 11, 1964 —- ~~ So THE Cla. RAs NO O8UROTION , . i TO THE DECLASSIFACLATION DF a THIE OOCUMENT. bem My ALTHOMTY: HA 782 a Te. my Hepedteedl — be A — o— a any te hoe + ade ev db eop re te es ON = HEMEVTERE yoy HARVEY OSmALD 2 Pepe tT beet cobs a lc a a ee anne ee nee a 1/2825 Fyisspserarereen By yy = ROFILMED | = : * Tatas = [fps FEU 12 1965 “°° p 0 Lele. MICRO. SER. | The following information was supplied on November 24, 1964, by Mrs. ELENA GARRO DE PAS and her daughter, ELENA PAZ GARRO, -They are resicents of Mexico City, but declined to supply their home address. Mrs. PAZ stated she is a cousin of RUBEN, LIDIA, and HORACIO DURAN, the latter being the husband of SILVIA TiRADO DE DUPAN., She said she had not furnished previously the information set forth hereinafter because of fear of reprisals. Mrs. PAZ said that on August 23, 1963, she attended a dinner at the home of a Mexican Communist whom she declined to identify. Among others present at this dinner were Cuban Consul EUSEBIO AZCUE and his wife. She had not previously known AZCUE, In conversation with him during the course of the evening she learned that he was aurpposed to retura to Cuba on or about August 27, 1963. She later learned that he did not depart Mexico at that time. According to Mrs. PAZ, she had infrequent contact with her cousins, the DURANS; however, on a date she fixed as Saturday, September 28, 1963, she received a telephone call from RUBEN DURAN, who invited her and her daughter to attend a party at his house during the first part of the following week. She was unable to fix the exact date of this party, but felt it had been held on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, September 30, October 1, and October 2, 1963, respectively, with the most likely possibility that ont was held on the evening of October 1 or October 2, 1963. It. was Mrs. “PAZt recollection that at about Docld: 327106433 Page 2?
9:00 a.m. on the date of the party she and her daughter were picked up and taken to the party by LIDIA DURAN, Also accompanying them was Mrs. PAZ’ sister, DSVA GARRO Di GUERRERO GAVAN. She described this sister as a Communist who was expelled from the Party for boing a Catholic. She estimated that some thirty people attended the party, described as a "twist" party, at the home of RUBEN DURAN. Upon arrival at RUBEN‘s home she noted what -appeared to be a young American couple near the door, but they left shortly thereafter. At about 10:30 p.m. three young, white Americans ~ arrived at the party. They were greeted by SILVIA DURAN and spoke only to her... They more cr less isolated thenselves from the rest of the party and inscfar as she ckserved they had no conversation with anyone else at the party. The three Americans appeared tc be between twenty-two and twenty-four years of age. One of them was dressed in a sweater and dark trousers and appeared to be ebout five feet nine inches in height. The second one was about six feet tall, had blond, straight hair, a long chin, and was a bit "beatnik" in appearance although his dress included a coat. The third American wore no coat. Mes. PAZ said the American dressed in the sysater and dark trousers resembled very much press photographs of LEE HARVEY OSWALD. Her daughter agreed with this observation, _. Photographs of OSWALD in various poses were exhibited to both Mrs. PAZ and her daughter at the time of the interview and they were unable to make a positive identification, but claimed he very much resembled the American at the party as they recall him, Mrs. PAZ could not state how long the three Americans remained at the party nor did she observe then. when they departed. She questioned HORACIO DURAN as to the names of the Americans, and he told her they wore g¢riends of SILVIA DURAN, He did not give her their names, but did tell her they were supposed te depart Mexico City the following morning. She added that this latter was not correct inasmuch as she and her daughter, while driving in an automobile on Insuxrgentes Street the following morning, observed the three Americans walking near a furniture store on that street, ~2- Docld:32106438 Page 3
It is to be noted that investigation has established that LEE HARVEY OSWALD departed Mexico City by bus at 8:39 a.m. on October 2, 1963, and could not have been identical with the American allegedly observed by Mrs, PAZ at the party if this party were held on the evening of October 1 or October 2, 1963. Mrs. PAZ was questioned regarding the identity of other persons attending the party at the RISEN DURAN home who might have been in a position to observe the three Americans. She said that in the course of the party her daughter met a young man named "ALEJANDRO" at the party and danced with him. He was apparently quite suitten with the daughter and tried to call her on several occasions after the party. The daughter did not take the calls and as a result "ALEJANDRO" wrote several letters to the daughter. Mrs. PAZ exhibited two of these letters, as well as a business card which identified the young man as ARIO ALEJANDRO LAVAGNINI STENIUS, © An examination of the letter which Mrs, PAZ said was the first directed to her daughter by the young man disclosed that it bears the date of September 1, 1563, and was postmarked at the Mexico City Post Cffice on September 2, 1963. oO Questioned as to whether her daughter had known the young man prior to the party at the RUBEN DURAN home, Mrs. PAZ was most insistent that she had not. When it was pointed out to her that the first letter from the young man to her daughter bore a Mexico City postmark of September 2, 1963, she commented that probably the Communists have facilities - for falsifying postmarks, Oe On November 27, 1964, ARIO ALEJANDRO LAVAGNINI STENIUS, Martinez de Castro No, 19, Tacubaya, Mexico, D. F., Mexico, was interviewed. He advised that he is an employee of General Electric de Mexico and recalled attending a large party sometime in the latter half of 1963 at the apartment of RUBEN DURAN located on Herodoto Street in Mexico City. . He was not a friend of the DURAN family, but. had been invited to the party by Mrs. ISABEL NANSON, a divorcee who was , formerly married to an American and a close friend of the wife of RUBEN DURAN, An Italian friend of his, MARCELLO FABRE, was also invited to the party by Mrs. NANSON, He, Mrs. NANSON, and FABRE went to the party together. ~3- Docld:327106438 Page 4