1400000 SE cnet | ‘ye confrontation with. her was ; requested by the _ Warren Commission staff but : rejected by the o Mexican authorities. ‘it is “from Silvia DURAN! s statements that it was learned that OSWALD became engaged in a personal altercation on : 27 September eet d. Manuel E lemon alias Marcos, and BORG -Rogelis RQDRIGUEZ Lope ‘were TED. 4dentified in February 1964 by ‘two. independent , sources as engaged in ‘the active developnent and facilitation of the ‘training of Nicaraguan, — ‘agents for the purpose of assassinating | "General Annstasio SOMOZA. "VEGA, it is estab- ae i] : ’ “ i" . a _ we Aer . ae ” oT 1 @e > . . aor fe . ~ , . de ricene QT veh ene nat 20s eat he aah dn me fe Bn om ged caper Mmm AE? 08 «ne si Py TPE GEE? SSS SE PUES SEE EPEC soe EPSP hh sry th ER FCs AES SSPSSUSRSSSESEESUSESESSEEEP ‘ "ished, was on post. in. ‘Mexico city auring Pee OSWALD's stay there 27 September, - 2 October -1963. He left Mexico City on 3 Novenber 1963. for Havana. It was reliably reported about © VEGA that all individuals going, to Cuba, legally or illegally, had to. pass ‘through, him first. Eo took the biographical data and sent’ at to cub for name checking, REPRODUCTION * took fifteen cays. tet Cen een ARES CAE" RENIN EY + 8 . 5 For example, VEGA would have handled. the. ‘details: ‘of | the visa action and_ ‘facilitation of the trip: "to Cuba ‘via. Mexico City from 23 December 1962 - 21 January ” 1963. that. : SECRET
14-00000 ¢° ‘ ca . ‘ . 7 ; oa . SEC RET 23. There is no evidence in the OSWALD case file that Silvia DURAN was subjected to a systematic elicitative | interrogation that would have related her dealings with OSWALD, known or confit PRODUCTION. the data held 7 on the Cuban DGI, tt SS OALion thods, in. ae “applications to: be handlea solely by a local employee and ‘a lame duck Like: AZCUE whose slot had been taken by ‘the a Cuban DGI defector as having ‘stated he was aware OSWALD wo - xelations from Dallas during the period 19 April - ~ on 13 February 1968 es DGI chief? Whatever ‘the | answer to these questions, they Were not asked at the time. And there remains the more ‘fundamental question: | accepting the ‘DURAN story on its ee participation of the DI. personnel above cited? this have more in its fildk Mexico City. Was it ng PaO PAHOA epee OSWALD'S; ep . considering the fuss he allegedly made with ‘RECUE, for the nical face, cok it Have~happened without the knowledge and seems unlikely ‘especially because “VEGA is later gited by a a See a made several visits to the Cuban Consulate. © : It is clear wanngte Cocenene tte tiiconoe and ceourit . CASTRO's overseas in was taken by Vincent TheodoYre: z Srganizer of the - Fair Play Committee for Cuba, . “with which OSWALD established. 2 November 1963. There is an overlap between LEE’s and VEGA's travels to Havana during that period: VEGA  — — departed Mexico City on 6 January | for Havana | and returned te ig - SECRET: COUZ6G2
14-00000 ee or my. a SECR ET 00 OY a ot statements. Coming back to the beginning: stuisa" i { i i _ Luisa CALDERON - as a member of the DGI unit. in Mexico city, ~ PLA ELPA LITO TT EY could ver well have known something that would make. what oe she said to her unidentified caller less a matter of oo - 4 “boastful self-indulgence than was assumed at the time. SILVIA DURAN, SUBSTAN | MISSION OF. ' ALLEGED PERSONAL RELATI aT icon OSWALD, 1967 22 coe os en aa ‘The defects viewed in mle 0, (the sitvia DUR ew opm eee en testimony already have been suggested above. context of criticism it would also be relevant to » reconsider ~ the implications of the ‘two intercepted telepl one conversations on 26 November 1963 between the Cuban President, ‘DORTECOS , a and his Ambassador ‘to Mexico, Joaquim Hernandez ARMAS, because the thrust of the conversation dealt with the ques tion whether Silvia. DURAN had been asked about for been ane _ ofterea?) money. payments by her Mexican interrogators. ). _ 25. As of ‘September 1964 Silvia DURAN gave up her Cuban Embassy job. ‘In the. spring of 1967 silvia DURAN was’ reported by a xeliable and sensitive source to have. cut all relations with Cubans. ‘Her account, ‘in 1967, of 5° how she had been taken mabe EN interrogated : > after the assassination was already known. 48 mia She added, under civeunedl cus t permit ‘the source to challenge « or, elicit corroborative detail, ‘that | 7 SECRET. (002883 jae 186 PAGE |
14-00000 s EC RET “she had gone out with OSWALD ‘during his stay in Mexico city” . and Claimed she had sexual relations with him. ees ALLEGATIONS OF 2 Sean EN OSWALD AND ~ CUBAN GOVERNMENT AGEN IIRESs os TO . a ™ ALLEGATIONS OF (A) EL B TED AND ot ; ' (B) OSCAR CONTRERAS » 26. As the Warren Commission ‘reported, “Literally —_ dozens of allegations of a conspiratorial contact. -between. e ‘OSWALD and agents of the Cuban Government have been. investigatea ...76 Among these cases, which ‘consumed ° hundreas of (CIA man-hours 4 in | Headquarters and abroad oT and similarly the FBI in the United States. - “was the | Nicaraguan walkin in ‘Mexico city, 26 ‘November 1963, Gilberto ALVARADO Ugarte. , | 27. The ALVARADO case is taken’ up in ‘detail by the. Warren ‘Commission under the cryptograph *D. ae , ALVARADO s claimed that he jhad seen an American, whom. he identified - as OSWALD, receive money some “time in mid-September 1963, ina meeting ina ‘patio of the Cuban Consulate in? See Report, Pp. “305°. av Oe oie SN es were ; the | cases - of Ylario ROJAS Villenueve in “Cozumel and. Guadaloupe,".: °" the allegations of ee RA in New York .City the claims of Robert nae ta Clara Prison’ Yor Farm, California, and the a £ Ray DOBKIN's..: : See Report, Pp- 307 - 308. oo re SECRET.
14-00000 £ o 7 Silvia DURAN, ‘cited above. | oo Gespite the impeachment of. its major premises “with red-dyed ta “from a high-ranking Mexican foreign service ‘official. of 1969, a U. Ss. Embassy Officer kept up a stream of ierisisen GARRO's . | @ on including a repeated reference to oe oS ECRET. Mexico city. | ALVARADO's story was ultimately broken by the. security service control into the case. | &s 28. The ALVARADO story isa particularly acute xepre- sentation of the. difficulties that beset the evaluation of 7 observed evidence: “certain elements of the story persist release of the Warren Report. in ‘oceunes HM : iiscently of (29. Elena GARRO ‘de Paz. is a mecurial, articulate and. anemia . socially prominent Mexican writer, married, _ but separated, is also the cousin of Horacio. DURAN, ‘the husband of ee geen There is a strong ‘personal : SOE OTRO TRS antipathy between the ‘two women descending from A A Elena GARRO's trenchant anti-Communism, 1: 30. From October 1964 until his. retirement in’ the fal Ss, persistently en OSWALD, the Ee EDP September 1963, BE a Negro with, \ Fedcdyed | hair account of ve paciol AG gon Rae Cubans and in particulgr “SECRET 81, 86 | PAGE of “ COPY NO. “=
14-00000 31. The first reference to the GARRO stor was noted in’. a a Mexico Station Memoxandum_ of Record dated 22 October 1964 "Elena -GARRO [said] that ‘she and her daughter were. invited to a party at the Cuban. i 7 oS ot Embassy during the period She now finds out: : that OSWALD was REPP aed assassination: | m=. a secretary in. the PROB ‘husband is a cousin of the GARRO | family foracio DURAN]. oS At the party she saw three Gringos, ? not drinking ’ “not. mixing _ and | ‘more or less just standing around together Like ‘three bumps” on; “a a - ae — - SECRET. ee as | t H _ log. - They were 50 ‘obviously out of place that | = she asked, someone _ an “the Cuban Embassy about. - them and was told that: “they were just: passing . through. ' . she claims that on. the way these | three Gringos stood out: she ‘took a good 100k Y at them as aid her daughter. _ When the a oS cae . assassination occurred, and ‘OswALD's picture. was, spread into ‘the newspapers, ‘both ‘Elena and e 5 Ain i ie one ae. S 32. GARRO repeated cher story. : i... William, 7 aE ic paeneeeutiemtent - ond vs THOMAS, an Embassy polstical officer on 10 December 1965: her daughter immedgs Res mesa the three exingll SECRET ved nice 82. of <2 SCOPE NO.
14-00000 In September 1963 after her return from abroad, “she went - Ruben DURAN [emphasis added] . |. Ruben is one of the two — . Met OSWALD and two 0 Tem At the party te she was discouraged Other guests . were the Cuban Consul a iia FLORES oo silvia DURAN, who she Tint zi while he was here, Emilio ‘CARBALLIDO and a Latin American ‘when the identity of the assassin. became ‘known, she’ ‘and. 5 ee — a of | OS BCRES ee to a party, accompanied by her daughter, at the home of brothers of Horacio DURAN, who married her f cousin. "She was OSWALD's we Negro man with red hair [emphasis added]. In November 1963 “her daughter went to the Cuban Embassy and shouted “afterward, she and her ‘daughter \ were ‘visited by. ‘a \ friend, a ‘Secretariat of the Gobernacion and) were told he. haa orders Se "assassins" and other insults at ‘the: staff there. : Shortly ~ Manuel (CARVILLO- lor ‘CALVILLOI, then an official | in ‘the ae to escort them to. a ‘small and “obscure hotel ; in the center of town. They ° were 2 kept there for eight days undex pretext that they were in danger. | “When she told CARVILLO, she. wanted - “to go to ‘the American aeperee fea: OSWALD, she was ‘told ‘that the American 33... On 25 December. 1965 and 9 January 1966 in ) further “These particulars were not confixmed by independent observers at the time. 23 pod . SEC RET + . . ' 7? ao . . ana SO Oo AAD + 8 See Spee I eh SERSESEANSEREESE FEES PSSESESEED SEEPS SSEEPTESSPSEDEP? SEF SEEEESSEESE ESSE PSECU SSE CS-SSSSSSSPSSESES SPSS STEEDS ESEEEREEES EFS EEG FEES EEFF EG EF SEESEEES EEL EEEETED ETF CED EFED EEFEP EGFP TEREESPE FEES FPTEROCROPTEEP RETO . a .. interviews with _ THOMAS , . GARRO and per daughter slaver ted and ts
14-00000 ' Embassy officers did REPRODUCTION - credence to oe anything they said. interviewed by the Le al | » Her. information had been ‘Similar ‘to what she. Cc a ne: on 25 February 1965... - out affirmatively... GARRO was. at the Hotel 23 ~ 24, 25. i and 28 - 30 November 1963. y In another, on 7 February 1967 : GARRO's continuing vicissitudes with the cubans are “set out. And finally, upon THOMAS" s ‘retirement from U.S. “Government. his reporting of the Elena GARRO interviews. account to THOMAS put had not been ‘substantiated b inguiries. cs (SECRET in certain particulars significantly modified her earlier . ; a account. She also acknor wledged that she ‘and her daughter had been interviewed by Embassy officers to whom she claimea they did not give a very complete stoxy because ‘the. 34. It developed . alk ROWIUT The FBI representative therefore. considered the. matter losea and’ reaffirmed his disengagement from the matter to: the (CIA Cae _ Chief of Station on 27 December 1964 and to the » Inbassador 35. cena Oem Ry hae ee cee nna nn serene my tte. eee $ 9 RRR Deg nt rei taken by CALVILLO as the Hotel Vermont. (this detail. checked © service, the Department of State, at his request, 28 August 1969, "disseminated to CIA and FBI 2 s compilation, of - 24 SECRET
. oe 14-00000 7 e a C. "ae SECRET oo 36. There the matter rests. GARRO's chronology of the. events she described as havin o¢ diate ecm satel = in September 1963 never coincided with the confixmed data | 4° O£OSWALD's presence there. Her story, however, had two. points. congruant “REPRODUCTION = regarding - a are OSWALD: eS de Ha i the - Negro with the red-dyed hair {this | detail could, ~ a. awvaravo' PR however, have been gleaned ‘from ‘the "Warren Commission’ s published account of the “pe case] and b. Silvia DURAN'S later claim of o intimate personal contacts with OSWALD. /37- Beginning in March and amplified in May 1967, ‘the . “American Consul, Benjamin J. _RUYLE, in ampico developed ae le contact with a local Mexican journalist, Oscar CONTRERAS Lartigue, who. elaited 1 to have encountered | 2 OSWALD with other pro-CASTRO students at the University of Mexico REPR | : 38. In June 1969 CONTRERA ee ii High for three years, approximately | 1960 - 1964. “He as belonged toa clandestine PEO-CASTRO revolutionary. (002882 | - _ pace 09 85, op L88_ : COPY NO. —
14-00000 « ay 8 held. in the faculty of Philosophy. OSWALD Toy SECRET case . he was extremely cautious and although he of 05. was not able or willing, to give dates and 7 names, he said OSWALD visited the University of Mexico campus shortly after the Cuban woes toe Embassy refused him a visa to visit Cuba. OSWALD made ingui revolutionary group was directed to co * OSWALD met CONTRERAS cand, eeu other persons as” they came ‘out of a. “xound- be, discussion told the group it was urgent that he visit. ' Cuba and the Cuban Embassy had denied him a ere “visa. He equested aid from CONTRERAS" groupe CONTRERAS and others mistrusted OSWALD because - = they felt he was a CIA provocation. The grow allowed OSWALD to accompany then the rest of me day, that night and part of the next day. ‘OSWALD | was very introvertea and appeared to be slightly Pe | crazy. OSWALD. aR ipower plot but kept, betnaing up had to. . _ travel ‘to Cuba, imam 39. At this point, with ui SLED ‘the matter was _turned over to the Mexican authorities who determined that -. ‘ . canes te aver Ap ate 4 senamin taon eroten eer cotaemee reenable ain enn seinen 110s no te AE SP CAERLEON EY ORE SEED SOON | AE SY SA RO SE RNY 9 : ‘ «
14-00000 a agement ren oe we an associated in protest activity for the Student Revolutionary ' Oscar CONTRERAS was "R leaders. No further A Nenas allegations. PROB TED: CONTRERAS about | his own presence at the Universi e is an additional — element: that undermines the credibility of his account: work is veftected in Uh - near _the hotel, . ‘seems s hardly likely to have permitted him to carry on for. an extended period with | a University student f SECRET omen for the years 1959 - 1960 and that he had been publicly Bloc (BER) in January 1961. However, the group ceased functioning as such in the middle of 1962, and Apart from the vnsust DE | OSWALD's Spanish, which was: barely adequate to get him meals oS reragnerg PROBATE. : ‘ ' 18 . 0 0 emer co rCaE SA REARS AS ASD GAAS > ISTP SG eH SSRN \acrssrsncpstenatppeseaneaccaneaseepenncnstieee sista etietvnnaeseteaseeeaseentSISO as te leaegean teeter epeeeeaente epeeeeeR ER, . ', canes mares mes 9 ne ssngea en .