1 Secretariat of Goversacica about another watter, she told the story of her encounter with ; in Siete @ICO Galan PeT85% LIEWOY CEWALD. The only person she could remexher who told her thie, however, vas Victor HCO Galea, / She said she understood that GSWALD had come to Mexico more than once. ' and tell ze <hie woman and daughter vere seen creating such a disturbance - as they claim ~ * ' 4a front of the Cuban Estassy. ‘J. Piccolo vrote "No belis ring with me." Shew wrote @ a Hi yo, tanpoco." Judy wrote "No pictures eiiben” MEMO to Tie Arb (co to COS) from LEGAT - Ref is nade to memo dated 10 Dec 65 (para 42> atove) --of Por your info, Siena and Blenita were interviewed by persoonel of thie office cn 17 and 24 Nov 64 at which time they furnished info sinilar to that set forth in ref meno, PRES Pres gd daughter : eed Xa: thay n alse se ellecatizns sate by Ene ware oo : - In view o2 2 fact Biena's CPE have been previcusly checxed out without suse tare tiation, no "further action ig telag taken concerning hear recent repatition of those allevations, eee 27 ne G . 1 WBXE STUL + Refs IZXT S621 -' para 426 above 1° tervieved Zl ; ; Nov 64 and fatled subscentiate eilecetions ret. : ir ned, . BOGE attached to MEXI S741, written by DCOS (White): “See bottom dosuvent in 50-6-12y/3 : og this Subject. I don't mnow what FBI did in Nov 64, bat the GARRO'’s have been telicing about this for a long tice and sh: i8 said to be extrecsely Eripht." Anntle G. wretes the following: “i. LA Keno said they checked info NEXT G2 5621 ani found it unculstantiated. ‘ COS asked we to send this cable. 3. We will try to confira or refute Mr3. G. de P's info and follow up.” C08 wrote "She ig also fnuta’ *, Zteu €6 WEMO from Annie Goodpasture to Cutan Section: Will you read this (meno in para 427 above) pe Oe] oT Tee rie loo sent by UFCQOKTB was not in P8495, Document by LICQCKIE dated 5 Cctover 19S) - Mexican Coctunists who had contact with OSWALD, : 4 Lt oes corded tram 80-6-129/5 end attached as has not appearec in Warren Comi write-ups in press. - All weeienf Elena GARRO de rooMTIT ETal, Oe Dae 65. . mB ASde RDA aS BLES) DO lob ie CURITE EA Calvan S35, around recalling details ee TT , . of their baving been in a group with OSWALD here last fall during tae days that he ves in j - Weaxdi. The weive-ups of the Warren Coma report in the nevupaser3 eparned thio diseussion, : : | @pd they apparently bac never really eat eround detariined to plecea Lt all torvether, although | ‘ ‘ , all 3 were detply affecuets s+. ‘ne main points: Elena and [eba are first cousins of three : young Fexicaas nawed Derans Puter., Horacio, and Lynn, Horacio is the husband of Silvia ; , : the Mexican girl vho ves arrested for questioning about OSWALD because she had beer in touch. . ‘ with bis at the Cuban 2nd when he vent there looking for a visa. (She is or was aluo a : : ringleader at the Cub-Mexican Institutoe on Tokio) / Walle OSWALD was here last fall the ' ' "7. " ' " SyRAN cousins invited the GARRO sisters and young Blenita to a “twist” party at the home | ; Els Ruben Duran aid-week. a few Communists they mew (Debe f9 a Comnie herself, ani Elena os \ : gEOR has bean in touch with Couies sir.ce chs vas a young girl and went to Republican Spain with ‘ Octavio ae § and a nucter of eer who struck thea as very peculdar at the tine, vere there. R) CSHALD WAS TERES WITH TwO OVHER EEATNIR LOCKING BOYS, OXS OF WHOM WAS Veny TALL AND ALL TEs CF WEOL THEY RSYSMBER. QUres WELL career fhe eee RE RnR te tt AD eR see ay Rem eT ee = oem <meta meme tee trie er ennthetenten eeet once eee ey sean 4 -
woe ~~ i tet, Be Lee & - 2 ¢.itenly Eave coney. Why?? i 72 Jan G aot Tt lvl ly Cite > No | ad . f ten & ape £4 tired that OSWALD 424 not | roto early Rect 65. 7 f-~ Trernats yeoorting. - OSWALD for info on one Herrinio DUARTE ™ LESAT report stated thet DUARTS's was theres. , Folitical Officer - 1. Memo to C/V1S frea COS on Visa Applicant #220, ae eee me ee 1 ‘ ‘ ‘ ; ne - * SECRET ho ceoe-Blana and Blinata vere 80 eiokened ‘(ay the news of the assassination) that they broke - off their relaticns with the DURANS. Sewever, their cousing very nervously looked them up , later. Deba GAPPO de GUSRFERO Galvan says that Lynn DURAN and one of the DURA boys have | wade trips to Texas. Ani that cost conspicuously they have all prospered this last year. i Aiways poor before, they now reve an expensive car each. Horacio works at EL DIA newspaper. Rote by DCO: e ——- Returned cn 21 Apr 65 as L,'l never regained contact with Blena GARRO de PAZ. ‘RT nesses ETE A-T2T Tos Dept of State FROM: Anervase;, Mexico - Ag of posaible interest to Washington: agencies, there is transnitted herewith a memo of conversation containing som observations about Cubs. Victor RICO Galan is @ Sranish-born Mexican Journalist who hes been one of the cost prolific and ardent apologists for Castro! 8 Cuba in Mexico. ' t Attachseat: Participants: ' Elena GARRO de PAZ, Mexican writer, and Charles Wm. Thonas, : RICO Galan told Blena that Busebio AZCVE, former Cuban Consul ia Meixco, was one of the most pewsrfal oem now im Cuba.. -He was recalled to Havana ~rediately she BecessinationPshen he was Cuban Consul in Mexl, presunably because he ' entact with GSdALD. . 2.7]. 0.faee eens \ THE NEWS ~ EBC Pilms Lee OSWALD Story wits US Actor - ..... : THE NEWS ~ Pight for OSWALD's Guns in Court - ..... Ot THE NEWS - Government Awarded COWALD Guns. ; ' i po MEMO TO The Amb, ce to COG « fron LEGAT ~ Pef is made to Memo of Conversation dated . 25 Dee 6 (para 427 above), rec'd by this office on 27 Jan 66, and LEGAT mro dated — 27 Dee 65 (para 429 above)... / Extensive investication conducted in the U.S. and Mexico after the assassination failed to discless: that OOWALD traveled to Mexico prior to 26 Sept 63. COWALD was recidaing in Rew Orleans, Loulsinca in early Sapt 63 and no info | has teen obtained to indicate shat he was mw away from that area in early Gept 63 Sept 63. / : In view of the fact that Elena GARNO de FiZ'a allecations have been previously checked out without substantiation, ne further action is being taxen concerning her recent repetition of those allegations, 9 June 66, DUARTS Martinez, Herminio, - Pla see LEGAT report dated 16 Dec 63, sublect,... ‘fartins. .....Note to cOS from Rosa FP. - Ref car was nota at the Cuban Zmb at the sara tine OSWALD nS: a Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 Dec 36 | Pv en tte date pi SEiaeges ° oe 2 TRE ERR,
SECRET DIR 12635 - Has hes reviewed aivanne copy book entitled "Inquest" Ly Edward J.. EPGICLM, gubject being assaceinatiog... Book in harls major reviewers, to La released sowtiiea June 66, In discussing CIA rele in OGWALD Investications, staterant ia .ade an tale that Werren Conn hed picture by CIA M8TD entering Cub E:ab parce urportedly ehowlin: G3? = Pads & Pas GUS . et yet on sale, toregoing * is advance notice to alert Station for whetever precautionary measures. ov, 14 June THE Wedd - Jury Pinds WSL Bane - “G June t . 4 iat Ww he § @ THE NEWS - Lawyers Plead FUBY'’s Guilt Based on Perjured Testimony - 3% = o Ceryerszation = Subjects Further co OSWALD and K Assassination ~ (Ref: Meno peeeaeemenenenmenied this Subj of 2) wee b> - para 427 above) Participants - Elena and Thomas (Pol Officer) ~ Elena described some develorne puents which cay have sone tearing of her clain that she saw @ALD at @ party at hone of her cousin Ruben DURAN when CSWALD was in Mexico prior to at assination. / Elena said Carlos SCLORZANO is well ecquainted with Cub Amo HERNANDEZ ) » and that be was aot leftist but his brother, Alfonso, vas a Communist. Amb LESANDDEZ told SOLOREANO he wantei to meet Elen, so SCLORZANO arransed a party at his own ho:s on 20 June 66 and invited both of thes. Also present were Tito MONTEROSSO and his wife; Elvira VARGAS, leftist journalist with ROVEDCADES and sersenal friend of Pres DIAZ Criaz; - . Es@nuel CARBALLO, the pro-Castre writer; Joaquin DIAZ Canedo, head of publishing firn called Editorial Mortis; and Juan SCRIANI, painter, who was invited to make her feel at ease, since be is a friend of ber. and was the only anti-Ccovmuniss there tLesides beruelf, / Dering evening, Amb HERNANDEZ, whom she described as intelligent and cultured, cucen- trated his attention on her,.... and expressed interest in her friend, Carles MADRAZ9. He issued a personal invitation to her to attend the annual literary festival of the Casa de las Amricas in Havara. She seid she was not a Pideliste uni weuld not #9 unieus Juan SORIANO went with her. Arb HECIANTEZ theo invited CORIANO but the latter dencunced the Caatro regime over the cojectiona of the others present...../ Later, ber friend, . Victor RICO Galan who personally dislizes Acb HERNANDEZ warmed her not to ¢o te Culm alone. 4 / Oak July 66 a driver fron the Cub Exb delivered to her home cn Calle Alencastre in Losas Virreyes an envelore containing two letters and same printed ratter from the Casa de las Avericas in Ravana. The first letter, written last Cctcber (667) gave her address as Vermont 35 and the second letter, written in April, gave her addrese as Vernont 29, - -.- - - - Tbe envelope for the firs: letter, with the above address, was marked for return to the coos" geadgr, which was the Cub Ecb here. The second envelope, which contained the whole pke, had no address as it was hand carried to her home - see attachments. / Elena stateu tha only reason the letters were addmssed to her at Calle Vermont was because she spent several - ntl days at the Hotel Vermont after the assassination. ‘Tne corrects address of the hotel is i SECK 3. Vermaat 29, so she concluded the Cub Gcv carried that street acd nuster, with @ cinor 5 error, as her zweculer aidress. / Since CALVILLO had taken her to tke hotel ostensibly to 7 ~ protect her froa the Coomunists, this raised the queytica of bew the Cubans obtained that a + As ts E . 4 > s 3 $ ry ce] ay au wy b* it oy oe we
os , Caen tircet} Te { ‘ { i3 July 66 - Ze Jury 06 eG Jaly ‘ 4 fe 1 ee “3 ¥ aout the foe not fo an agenunte ware dh in herd to believe nud the ruccr, ehay set rf, tod acre strious era we ne re atin meen pee pene momen . Difieiom Cultural at the threpolcpical Maseun. ! ' | . ‘ | J ' | ; eddress. ' She aaid that the only. people who knew she had been at the Hotel: Vermont were | CALVILLO and two close friends of his, Ernesto de la Fefia and Margarita MICHBLENA. ‘Two ' other friends of these three who might have learned of it are Bunicé ODIO and June COBB. She @ has alwaya been suspicious of all three because they went out of thelr way to! : cultivate her when she returned from Europ: in 63 and made such @ point of: being culspoken professional anti-Convunists. ....Eleana said CALVILLO was @ close personal friend of Nos PALOVAP2S and Pres. DIAZ Ordaz, and that Bards, presumably from Gobernacion, had been placed cuteide her hove when ehe returned from ths Hotel Vermonth....../ Elena thought it possible that the Cub Enb had deliberately given her the letters from the Casa ce las Araricas with the Versont Street eddresn in order to frighten her. Ghe wee already con- cerned about woat epptared to te three gunithots that had been fired through her upsateire window while she was out of the house threa weexs ago. .../ Finally, Elena said ehe hed recently encountered her cousin, Lydia H DYRAN and that ths latter had been very friendly ang wanted to met her acain. She said Lyila was very poor and had a emall job with \ Attached are letters to Elena fron the Casa de las Americas.’ THE NEWS - Warren Report Queationed - Richard N. Goodwin made the suggestion (of an inde- Pp SECRET bo | - pendent group to determine whether the Warren Comm inveatipation was inadequate and ds fective) in @ review printad in Book Week of the book by Edward Jay EPOTUIN entitled “Inquest, the Warren Coom and Tae Establirhment of Truth.” +e. Goodwin said, "It not only raices qrstions but dexands exploration end answers.” ; THE NEWS + Hew Roms for OSWALD'a Widow - About Marina and new hustand moving ‘ The Bscund OGWALD: ‘Ths Case for a Conspiracy gheory - Teqveas by Edward Jay EPSTEIN, and, Whitewash by Harold Weloberg ~ by Richard 4. Popkin ; } i ' ' : Presents theory that there were two OSWALD's in the conspiracy..... . i 1 ‘ : ' THE REWS + Rew Book Due on JFK Case - The third book since the Warren Comm = "Rush to Jwigement” by Mark Lene, a Few York City lawyer, - 3...."The force of the evidence is inescapable - the case against OWALD as the lono assassin is refuted by the very witnesses up™m whoa the commisnion relied......tho F21 repert devastaten the comalagion's conclusion - that al of the shots were (ired fron the mar and that they wars (ired by & lone etoansin.” ‘ ‘ i ‘ a _ SFORET i euros IT rn! a .