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13-00000 e TRANSLATION Results of the Interrogaive “et livia Tirado De DURAN (Silvia DURAN), her husband, Horacio DURAN Navarro et al, Immediately Following Their Detainment on 23 November 1963. ; With regard to the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, it was learned that Lee Harvey OSWALD had been in Mexico previously and accordingly this investigation was undertaken with the following results: Lee Harvey OSWALD was in fact in Mexico entering through Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. On 26 September 1963 as a tourist from New Orleans and leaving through this same port of entry on 3 October 1963. It was confirmed that he had come to Mexico to obtain a visa from the Cuban Embassy to transit Cuba enroute to Moscow. In this connection he made contact with Silvia Tirado De DURAN, Mexican, (Silvia DURAN) with whom he met on two occasions since she is the Consulate employee in charge of carrying out the necessary procedures for this type of visa and filling out the cards with data about the requester, an essential requirement to obtain a Cuban visa. By direction from her, he contacted the Russian Consulate for the same purpose. On learning that Silvia DURAN has been one of the contacts Lee Harvey OSWALD made in Mexico, this woman and her husband, Horacio DURAN Navarro, were detained for interrogation. They made the following declarations: 1. Horacio DURAN Navarre: Mexican by birth, the son of a Chilean father and Mexican mother. He said that he is an industrial designer, having received his degree at the Escuela Nacional De Artes Plasticas. He works for U.N.A.M. receiving a salary of 1400.00 pesos monthly, 40 years old, no religion, married, address Constituyentes 143, Dept. 3, Mexico City.. He lived in Los Angeles, California for the first eight years of his life coming to this capital (Mexico City) with his parents Rufino DURAN and Lidia Navarro De DURAN. Later they went to live in Santiago, Chile where they remained for one and one-half years. He returned to Mexico with his brother Ruben, his sister Lydia and his mother came later, US COPY ATT. | te: XAAZ-2275% OF 2 Ol- DS TAKS
13-00000 2 He entered the Escuela Nacional De Agricultura De Chapingo, where he gtudied agricultural engineering for flve years and as such had practiced at the Academia De San Carlos; he chose to continue to study this art, which served aa a base for specializing in Industrial design which he now practices, being head of that subject at the Escuela De Artes Plasticas De La U.N. A.M., dedicating his free time to private work as a designer, for which he obtains an Income of approximately 5000.00 pesos monthly. 3. In 1950 he married Lucile DEJARDIN, French, and they have one son named Paul DURAN Dejardin, who is now ten years old. The marriage lasted about sabe years after which he was divorced on 5 November 1958. 4. He then married his present wife Silvia DURAN by whom a child was born, a daughter named Patricia age three and one-half years. When he met his present wife she was working as a secretary at Galerla Porteo and she later began to meet other feople, among them Professor Agustin Cue CANOVAS, the cultural attaches of the Cuban Embasay and - @thers. She has served as coordinator of the Mexican-Cuban Institute of Cultural Relations, Jose MARTI, and for the last four months has worked for Consul Euseblo AZCUE and now with MIRABAL recelving a monthly salary of 1500.00 pesos. He admitted that his ideology ia leftist and that he is sympathetic to the Cuban revolution giving hhls as a reason why he permitted his wife to engage in the activities which it promotes. 5. He stated that in talking to his wife about the assagsination of - President Kennedy she recognized the name of the accused Lee Harvey OSWALD and bumediately sald that she thought that she had dealt with the same Individual who In the last days of September or first days of October had been in the Cuban Consulate requesting a visa for Cuba in transit to Russia. That she personally attended to him and gave directions regarding the visa request but Indicating that [t-was necessaryto first have a visa from the Russian Consulate and that he should send his request to the Ministerio De Relaciones De Cuba which probably would take several days. OSWALD became very annoyed and Silvia called Cenaul AZCUE, with whom OSWALD had a heated argument. He stated that he had ~2e=
13-00000 never seen or known Lee Harvey OSWALD personally and that in December 196], he made a trip to Cuba accompanied by his wife. They pald for thelr own tickets. ——-—— i” Sivia Tirade De DURAN stated she la Mexican by birth, 26 yeara old, married, no religion, employed, addreas in Dept. 3, house no. 143 Conatituyentes, Mexico Clty; that she has been married to Horacio DURAN Navarre since 5 November 1958 and that they have a daughter named Patricia three and one-half years old; that in July or August of 1961, she was offered employment as coordinator at the . Mexican-Cuban Inatitute of Cultural Relations, then headed by Lic. Agustin Cue CANOVAS. That since that time she had frequently visited officers of the Guban Embassy, having personal friendship with Ambassador PORTUONDO, the cultural attaches Teresa PROENZA and Luls ALVERU as well as with other employees. Her contacts were principally with Maricarmen OLAVARRI, Secretary to Consul Euseblo AZCUE, @ Spaniard and relative of AZCUE, and who received 500. 00 pesos monthiy. | 7. In December 1961 she and her husband made a trip to Havana i by plane. They pald for thelr own tickets, but all other expenses of their visit te all the islands were pald by the Cuban Institute of Friend- ship with the Peoples (1L.C.A.P.), and the Cultural House. @. She did not know her huaband's salary since his income ts very lrregular ~ his only fixed Income is from the school, 1200.00 pesos monthly. She as well as her husband have automobiles. | | 9, She sympathized with the Cuban movement since its beginning; that she wae a cpordinator of the Maxican-Cuban Institute of Cultural Relationa since July or August 1961 and that she studied for the career a of an English-Spanish secretary at the Escuela Bancaria. She mastered English and knows some French and le atudying Philosophy. She has a leftist ideology, by conviction, and is in accord with communism, but does not beleng te any political group nor has she participated in meetings | or acts of this nature, That officers of the Cuban Embasay, including the Consul, have been in her home; that she knows almost all the principal leftists In Mexice without being a friend of them; that except for one visit | to Brawnesvilie, Texas, she has not been in the United States.
13-00000 10. With respect to the attempt on President Kennedy, when she heard the news she became depressed and thought that the author was some maniac and when she knew that it was an element of 'The Fair Play for Cuba", she did not bdieve it at first. During President Kennedy's visit to Mexico, she did not attend any of the functions that were held in his honor and did not otherwise participate. In talking with her husband when they learned of the assassination she said it could have been done by radicals and when Lee Harvey OSWALD entered Into the discussion, she recognized him as the same person that had come to the Cuban Consulate about two months previous to request a transit visa to Russia. 11, She remembered his name because of his unusual characteristics and the circumstances of his visit l.e., he was married to a Russlan and sald he belonged to the "Falr Play for Cuba"; that she checked his data in the Consulate's archivea and she was then sure that it waa the same person. That he ta blond, short, poorly dressed, that his face gets red when he talks; that he was denied a visa because the Consul told him that In order to obtain one he would firat need a visa from the Russian Consulate and this procedure would take about four months and urged OSWALD to leave Mexico. OSWALD became angry and for this reason she had to call the Consul with whom he had an argument, That OSWALD was told that the aid which could be given to him was to advise him to go to the Russian Con- sulate. The Consul then spoke by telephone to the person in charge of that office, and was Informed that the case would have to be referred to Moscow and that there would be a four month delay. That in the afternoon of the same day Lee Harvey OSWALD returned to the Cuban Consulate and that she confirmed that he would only be given a visa when he had one from the Russian Consulate glving him, on a plece of paper, her name Silvla DURAN with the office telephone number but that OSWALD was not given her address since he had no reason to have it. That it was not her place to telephone the Russian Consulate and if she did it was in an official form and to help Lee OSWALD In the interest of performing her duties. That if she gave him her telephone number {t wae so that he could later ask lf the visa had been obtained, but he never called again. 12. It should be mentioned that in the home at which the DURANS were detained, Herodoto No. 14, Dept. "A", house of the brother-in-law of Silvia DURAN, Ruben DURAN Navarro, the persons that were visiting Sp kee _this home were detained; thelr antecedents fallow: 13. Ruben DURAN Navarro stated he is originally from Los Angeles, California, married to Betty SERRATOS, 38 years old, awaiting Mexican citizenship. His job is a decorator and is employed with his brother Horacio DURAN Navarro in an office that the latter has at Veracruz Street ode