ination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 ‘ AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10073-10430 RECORD SERIES: MX AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-3702-1369 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LEG. MX TO: DIRECTOR. FBI TITLE: DATE: 11/06/1970 PAGES: 5 SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-5652 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Unclassified NEW CLASSIFICATION: ass CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: — 08/12/1996 | UPDATE DATE: 06/08/2001 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: DoclIda: 32144393 Page 1
"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote)« - “DATE: 11-14-2017 ” OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 * \ . MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 ‘© * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum { { 1 DIRECTOR, FRI (105-€2555) 11/8/73: TO : Cont SP dai DATE: LEGAT, MEXICO CITY (105-3702) (RUC) CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DESL be woe Hug a ANDIOR, tet AgerRONt OPA TON qr nS HOC ‘Mec S-t6- Hia3sasdfpce. thks Te. Reference Mexico City letter 10/14/62 in OSWALI3 case; . i Mexico City letter 7/30/58 and Havana letter 2/23/58 entitled, “TERESA PROENZA; SM - C;" and Mexico City letter and LEM 16/5/70 entitled, "JORGE LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA; IS - CUBA" (Bufile 105-115365). FROM vA PROENZA's full name appears to be MARIA TERESA PROENZA PROENZA. She is currently said to be in Havana, Cuba, after spending several years in Santa Clara Province under near house arrest. She now appears to have more freedom. She is the sister of the wife of JORGE LUIS RGJAS MENDOZA, a Mexican employee of the Cuban Aviation Company in Mexico City. Fer brother ALVARO ESTANISLAO PROENZA PROENZA resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the subject. of an I5 - CUBA investigation. TERESA PROENZA was the secretary of the Mexican communist muralist DIEGO RIVERA prior to the revolution. She became an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City follow- ing the revolution. She was described by her brother ALVARO in 1965 as a "dedicated communist" and a “slave of the Cuban. communist government.’ . The following information is extracted from the letter and LUM submitted by Mexico City on 10/5/70 concerning JORGE _ LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA and the efforts of his family to arrange * for his sister MARGOT RCJAS MENDOZA ito leave Cuba and join the family in Mexico; - . 1.) According to information furnished byofaias 19 n J 9/21/70, the ROJAS family has become very embit ed afout the Cuba situation and irs. ROSAS, whose full name is CARTDAD Qe Classified | $-Bureau | Exempt from eb < (1-105-135744) (ALVARC PROENZA PROENZA Wate of Dectaghnrc (1-64~29479) (TERESA PROENZA PROENZA) <7 a (1-Foreign Liaison Desk) fA \(1-Phi ladelphia) (105-11456) (ALVARC PROENZA P (artiexico City shy (1-100-18 34) (TERRSA ‘PROENZA PRCENZA) = 105-0 2027) (ALVARO PROENZA PROENZA) Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Rerall Savings id a WAG Me Se 5010-108-01 DoclId: 327144393 Page 2?
Released ,under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote)”. ‘DATE: 11-14-2017 MEX 105-3702 "CACHITA" PROENZA PROENZA DE RCOJAS, complained that Cuba has become a police state and that Cuban authoriti have a : rare family."all tied up."" ROJAS and his wife colar 197 that fx] .} a Cuban communist named JUAN MARINE is a friend of the family. On one trip to Cuba, CACHITA ROJAS asked him to look into the situation of her sister TERESA PROENZA to see how it could be straightened out. MARINE recently visited Mexico "incognito" . and informed the ROJAS that the situation now is extraordinarily good but that THERESA was once under a death sentence because she had dealt with LEE HARVEY OSWALD while assigned to the Cuban Embassy prior: to the assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY, told way 1 hat MARINE warned them not to tell the Cuban | Her ends nterceded for her and her life was spared. ROJAS amt cacy Embassy in xico city that he had spoken to them about this matter. » “a . The source stated that JORGE ROJAS and his wife do not Know how to cope with the present situation. They fear going to Cuba and they are speaking out against the Cuban revolution in a most forthright manner. The bitterness dis~ played by ROJAS* wife fa cgeds any that the source can recall in the past. GDh ‘The source stated that some years ago, as best he could recall, he heard JUANA LUISA PROENZA, a sister of CACHITA who died some years ago, telling a similar story of how TERES PROENZA was somehow involved with LEE HARVEY OSWALD at the Cuban Embassy.. At the time TERESA was employed at the embassy, she lived with JUANA LUISA and another sister. Within the family it has always been said that JUANA LUISA/worriec herself to death after TERESA was ordered to Cuba. (4 K) The Mexico City Cffice has conducted a review of references to TERESA PROENZA especially those dealing with the OSWALD investigation and it is noted that as set forth in rts City letter to the Bureau 1/24/64 in the CSWALD case Sy -18-and MEX 19}fboth of whom have furnished reliable infor- “mation in the past, reported on 1/13/64 that they had conversed | with ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA, Bufile 100- 395934,-who told them of a conversation she held with TERESA PROENZA, the Cultural Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. According to MORA, TERESA PROENZA had told her that OSWALD walked in "cold" to the Cuban Bmbassy and the first person he talked to was ay PROENZA. Since PROENZA did not speak English, she turned him COZ DoclId: 327144393 Page 3 ’
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 eek Hote). "DATE: 11-14-2017 vonri Me FEN While it is not clear from available information, it would appear that PROMNZA was’ dble to return from Cuba for a visit to Wexico fol ovine DS. dismissal and departure in’ 1/84. 7 D() 7k By report adted. 1/14/85 the CIA reported On the in- vestigation by the Juban’ government of olc¢ line communist JOACUIN ORSORUI MASA. ~In this’ revort it was indicated that TSRESA PROENZA had bee mrested at hexhones sand.was being. , held incommunicadco C4 A eal aE rs yO Kw MAX 105-3702 A review of t oregoing material indicatés TERESA PROENZA got into trouble with the Cuban bbe entees more as a result of her criticism of the handling of the CSWAL . matter following the assassination of President XENNEDY than because of anything she did when ©SWALU visited the Cuban Embassy. Fer hars h criticism of nigh Cuban officials (the Ambassador and Foreign Minister) was appar ly well known in the embassy and hardly helvedc her case. | t fails to ~ indicate that she cid anything for CSWALD that ied Spptnat) the remarks made by JORGE LOJAS and his: wife topiax. 139 that/:- J THREGA PROENZA had nearly been executed because oF activities | | during CSTALD's visit to.the Cuban Embassy in 1983 in the’ 7] absence of additional information regarding this activity, no i further investigetion is contemplatec at this time. it is noted that it is not feasible to directly interrogate JORGE (uJ - RCJAS or his wife. “owever 4 Mas 19 ill closely follocw this cA matter with them and any acditional, significant developments will be called promptly to the attention of the Bureau. (3g °) - Cne information coouv is being furni ad to Philadelphia in view of their erest in ALVARO PROGENZ Zoncerning ALVARG PROENZA opi: 19 Borted on 7/2/75 that ona recently visited Kel) the ROJAS™family in Mexico City and CACHIVA remarked that ALVARO said he was surrounded by "gusanos" (referring to Cuban exiles in a Geropatory manner) in Philadelphia Tontidential . DoclId: 327144393 Page 4 ' '