424-90137-10488 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 HW 50953 BDocld: 323337722 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90137-10488 HQ CR SEE TITLE Document Information CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CIA HQ [Restricted] 07/27/1961 3 CIA LIAISON MATERIAL [Restricted] PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B; 1C Redact 09/28/1998 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA MEMO Page i Date: 4/17/20]
- a . “ . : a \ : . . j CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ; ji WASHINGTON 25, D. S 10-99 vote ~~ Be ae PRIS, oy Sole stb |yse. eT JUL can TO: Director fe) i: Oi 254 ‘RECEI VEL FR a Federal Bureau of Investigation JFK) an 9 8 6 Attention: . Mr. S.J. Papich . FROM: Deputy Director, Plans >i ot SUBJECT: (GouaresBepinose yes eto 2 Mexico _ i- ' it 1. This. Agency was queried recent or information on Subject. A German citizen in Bremen, suspected (6) OF Polish Intelligence Service activities: » recelved a $1, 000. oo deposit in his account tron [Sepinosa. |(e) ' 2. Your permission is requested to pass the ‘following information, , some of which was obtained from your files, t Ss) [Bavardo Espinosa |(6) oe - [born 2h Jaxitary 1909 J P00 City, Mexico, appointealMexican Ambassador to Warsaw] during the sumier of 1960.: August 1957 tof) summer 1960 accredited to the United: Nations Headquarters Jin New, ew) (s York ated h thefrank of Ambassador as an Alternate Permanent sane a ot \ Delegate.| [During his New York’ City tenure, he was known to write(S) ai Ct aes | bank.drafts to. persons known to be active Communist workers. It Koinbta~ poor tF4 was suggested that he was used as a means of financing Communist | Party. activities appears to be a Soviet contact, and that his i oe wife, one /. i) [‘temara inosa, S&oumrove, » native Russian [S$ 8 reported té6 have been an agent of the Soviet security _ Ye services. She was admitted to Mexico “in” September “1947. 7 When — OW; () u (Esptnose” "y Prieto|was in Mexico, ‘he was in close touch with tne) ‘ a. f Soviet Embassy and expedited visas for Soviet delegations. The Couple of pe US > es. particularly friendly with Soviet Ambassador Kapustin during | 953+ {Mrs. Espinosa's brother died in a. Soviet. prison | in 1393 3 ana( 4) er mother still resides in the USSR. / ed ae ut HA a eye e These facts might. indicate. ¢ a Soviet hold. + over fbeptnosa: arious | opinions collected from persons’ who. inew{ Espinosa , | wheri he served in{S)° Shanghai, Bogota, Mexico, Caracas, Togoland, and'the U.S.,| vary from 5. CIA HAS No ap JECT! asically friendly to the U.S" to the following: That h d been a ~~ | COs neta: lip rin pen tion agent in the Axis group (in Shanghai) on behalf of the DECL ASSE IS ATi ANDIOR, ( RELEASE DOE CHA INFOR RMA “ION. RE CY 226 y pe . vi ack C. a2 (es — Ye . b IN THIS DOCUMENT, Exeeyar Fore be ‘eps | Kosei is “29 22. AUG 81961 a) 1G g. 2 . HW 50953 DBocld: 32337722 Page 2
e768 USSR, that he was 100% pro-Communist and most dangerous, that v) he has been an eagerly cooperative contact of the Soviets in Mexico for several yesrs, and so on. .The bulk of opinions are derogatory in nature; Petrov \dentifiea| Mrs. Espinosd]as an(S) ‘ee 'MVD agent. ” CSCI -3/766, 521 eae yo ES | | aw 50953 Docld: 32337722 Page 3