477-410001-10064 v9.1 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 : HW 50955 Doclda: 3277675904 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information LBJ 177-10001-10064 NSF, COUNTRY FILE, CUBA, TDCS, VOL. 1, BOX 32 Document Information CIA 11/23/1963 2 CUBA REPORT Secret Consulted Withhold 08/13/1993 DOC. #190 Page i Date: 8/26/201
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ao 1a This material conteine information sitecting the National Defense of the United States within 793 ang - 794, o-he transmission or reveletion of which in any manner the meaning "of the . “Espionage Lows, Tite 48, us.0-Sa. fo en una uthoriued | person is prohibited by ‘few " SECRET - (When Filled in) COUNTRY CUBA REPORT NO, 1Des~3/ 565, 826 SUBJECT | COMMENTS OF CUBAN OFFICIALS ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY’ 00) 0 US _ PRECEDENCE, , ROUT INE.. Sa a _ REFERENCES DATE DISTR., 83. NOVEMBI Bt 962, DATEOF 22 NOVEMBER 1963 INFO. OO a fo PLACE& CHILE, SANTIAGO (22 NoveMBER 1963) DATE ACQ, - ~ APPRAISAL SEE BELOW FIELD REPORT NO. Fab isnomns THIS ts UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARF DEFINITIVE ABDDAI<al Ac Gaua ene See SOURCE SPPRAISAL; IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT THE REMARKS WERE MADE AS REPORTED: : - SAUNDERS SMITH, WM. ¥. le THE FOLLOWING. ARE, REMARKS MADE. BY OFF ICIALS OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN SANT IAGO REGARD ING - THE ASSASS INAT ION OF PRES IDENT KENNEDY s, Ae ON 2 NOVEMBER JOSE TOHA; - VICE. PRES IDENT oF THE CHILEAN CUBAN CULTURAL | INST ITUTE AND DIRECTOR OF THE PRO=CASTRO LEFTIST PRESS ULTIMA HORA , INFORMED PEORO MART INEZ PIREZ, CHARGE OF THE. CUBAN EMBASSY IN SANTIAGO, THAT KENNEDY HAD BEEN ASSASS INATED, TOHA SAID "ESTE -ASUNTO DE. KENNEDY SE ESTA PON IENDO COLOR DE HORM IGAS” (POSSIBLY MEANS ASSASS INAT ION ‘OF KENNEDY LOOKS LIKE IT GOULD HAVE SER 10US -REPERCUSS IONS) MART INEZ. COMMENTED THAT. HE _HEARD THAT THE PERSON " ARRESTED WAS PRES IDENT oF A FAIR PLAY FOR (CUBA COMMITTEE AND, THAT AF THE: YANKEES OR CIA ASSASS INATED KENNEDY TO, RESUME THE ASSAULT ON CUBA, » THEN A THIRD WORLD WAR GRouP ft . [€acivded from automate * downgrading. and decloinficaton ORM 1K  oBSOLETs PREVIOUS EDITIONS. 7 : (15-20) HW 50955 DBocld: 32262904 Page 2
SECR ET - ue ie a ; CLASSIFICATION — DISSEMINATION CONTROLS A FOR ek SSE WOULD START, HE SA ID TH INGS: ARE VERY CLEAR AND THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THEY "HAVE. ASSASS INATED HIM, THE CONTRADICTIONS ARE WELL DEFINED AND THE MOMENT WAS “VERY SPEC IAL, LIKE THAT OF THE MAINE. MARTINEZ SAID THE UNITED STATES 1s. Now IN THE MOST DIFFICULT POSITION OF THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS IN LATIN AMERICA, THE WORLD, GOULART, ARGENT INE PETROLEUM, PERUVIAN LANDS, CHILEAN MINES AND IN GENERAL ALL OVER LATIN AMERICA. TOHA SAID HE WAS VERY WORRIED AFTER READ ING THE CABLE TRAFFIC, MART INEZ ADDED THAT IF THE USA 1S THINKING OF INVAD ING CUBA THEN THEY MUST HAVE EVERYTHING ALL PREPARED AND. ALL THE. STRATEGY "READY AND THEREFORE THE ALARM MUST BE GIVEN SO THAT CUBA CAN BE PREPARED, | /B, THE CUBAN CONSUL AT VALPARAISO CALLED THE CUBAN EMBASSY. IN SANTIAGO TO DETERMINE POLICY IN THE MATTER OF FLYING THE FLAG AT HALF MAST. THE REPLY WAS. THAT THERE ARE NO DIPLOMAT IC RELAT 1ONS WITH THE USA AND THAT NO OFFICIAL WORD “HAD YET BEEN RECEIVED FROM CUBA, SO THEREFORE NOTHING: SHOULD BE DONE. (FIELD COMMENT: THIS 1S AGAINST PROTOCOL BECAUSE THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT’ HAS DECREED OFFICIAL MOURNING INCLUDING FLY ING FLAGS AT HALF MAST.) | C. MARTINEZ REFUSED TO MAKE FURTHER STATEMENTS PREFERR ING TO.WAIT FOR’ OFF IC IAL ‘WORD FROM HABANA. SEVERAL TIMES HE DENIED THAT THE ASSASS IN WAS INVOLVED . IN THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMM ITTEE INS IST ING THAT THIS PERSON [S ONLY: A SUSPECT AND THAT EXTREME. RIGHT ISTS OR SEGREGATION ISTS “ARE TO BLAME, MART INEZ SAID HE BELIEVED THAT THE UN ITED STATES GOVERNMENT WOULD TRY TO PUT THE BLAME ON CUBA, 2,° FIELD. DISSEM: CINCSO CINCLANT. END OF MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION = DISSE ETT Docld:32262904 Page 3