13-00000: ). UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE _ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION . In Reply, Please Referto . WASHINGTON 25, D. ¢. File No. SEOHET MAY 1.8 1954 oe “LEB HARVEY OSWALD BO Con lection SF tacts jnewn to clate on  Osuatelie te 'p i Mexico anol his actyithes while theres \ allegations | “Oswald | Mexican  centacts: ~ Verioeas indiviclan Is canceruin PROPERTY OF THE FBI This document contains neither _ recommendations nor conclusions of -the FLL It is the property of the FEI end is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be . distributed outside your agency, SECRET . Group I Excluded from Automatic Downgrading and Declassification cere, ESCO 26t-2¥424¥
II, a) E CRET TABLE OF CONTENTS Page -JNTRODUCTION ‘TRAVEL TO MEXICO BY LEE HARVEY OSWALD ~@) -(B) ‘ey _. . November 25, 1963, Issue re3 ; _Geptember 26-27, 1963) “OSWALD. Application zor United States . Passport, June 24, 1 “OSWALD's. Mexican Tourist Visa Results of. FBI Laboratory Examination | of OSWALD*s Tourist Card . Closing of United States-Mexican Border — Mexican Newspaper, “Excelsior, " | | OSWALD's Trip to México @) (Ss) j@ (T) (3) Checks Made on Compania. -de Aviacion Passenger Manifests for September 26-275 1963 . Check. ‘at OSWALD*s Port of Entry into Mexico Check of Plecha Roja (Red Arrow) Baggage List for Passengers for: November 26, 1963, Trip from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico, D. F. . List Obtained of Entry of All Non-Mexican Citizens on September 26, 1963, at Nuevo - . Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico . Persons Interviewed in Mexico Who Entered Mexico September 26, 1963, at. Nuevo Laredo - A- SECRET 26
13-00000 III, 7 © SE c RE Tt Page Interview of ROBERTO MORALES, Driver of Flecha Roja (Red Arrow) Bus No. 516 | -. ° from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City on . a = ae trip. for September 26 and 27, 1963 oo, BBO --(L) “Interview of ERNESTO HERNANDEZ, co-driver | _.>. - @f Plecha Roja (Red Arrow) Bus No. 516  €rom Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City on: _. September 26 to 27, 1963 Ce 29 ae OSWALD ay ‘MEKICO CIty, 7 ee os (a) . “New York Times" Newspaper Account » : . : | - 30 . 7 (B) OSWALD's Visits to Cuban and Soviet _ - Diplomatic Establishments - a —— _ Envestigation by Mexican Authorities . - . BS a (C). Other Inquiries by Mexican ee FE > Federal Security Police . ee 426. - (D) Hotel Accommodations of LEE HARVEY |. OSWALD in Mexico City aE ° 1. OSWALD's Registration at Hotel a az . Examination of Handwriting on ee _-. Hotel Register by FBI Laboratory | i 47 3. Identities of Persons at Hotel : - During Same Period as OSWALD _ 48 4 Interview of Manager and me ‘Other Personnel at. Hotel . .. §&% '§, Other Inquiries in the Area of the Hotel del Comercio, Taxi _ Stands, and Bus Terminals . 67. 6. Inquiries in Neighborhood « of | Hotel del Comercio — : 68 - Be ‘SECRET 9 | So EDA A OA ta nt ere tr
13-00000 . oI, - de Interviews: of Guests at SECRET Hotel del-Comercio . 8, “Reputation of Hotel. Gel Comercio. : oswaup's DEPARTURE FROM MEXICO Interview of HERBERT ROBERT VOORHEES, Passenger on Transportes del Norte Bus  . . Praveling from San Luis Patosi.to Nuevo @® ‘List for October 2, 1963 oe Laredo on October 2 to 3, 1963 | @) «Cd. Checks of Records of Other Bus. Lines - . Transportes del Norte Passenger “Record - of Location of Transportation Sold to H. 0. LEE _ Interview of ROLANDO BARRIOS RAMIREZ, a Interview of Personnel at Transportes: . — a del Norte Terminal, Mexico City 6) @ ww @ ‘Interviews of Personnel at Transportes” del Norte Bus Terminal Restaurant, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon - Inquiry at Monterrey, Nuevo ‘Leon Main Offices (of Transportes del Norte Bus ‘Passenger ANASTASIO RUIZ MEZA Identified Photographs of LEE HARVEY OSWALD Interview of Transportes del Norte Passenger JOSE BABRIGA BERNAL List Obtained of Departure of ton Mexican Citizens on October 3, 1963, at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | -Co. SECRET Page «88 89 5a 62 a 63. 64. 69 72 a a 49
13-00000 Ve _@) Inquiry at Flecha Roja Bus Terminal a (c) - OSWALD's Time of Arrival in Mexico city. SECRET (L) Additional List of Persons Who ' . .Departed on October 3, 1963, and .. Entered on September 26, 1963 .~ Qi) OSWALD's Travel Documents and ., Mexican Government Records ~ Orne INQUIRIES CONCERNING OSWALD'S TRAVEL Lo | -@) Transportes Frontera Bus Line | —@) Efforts to Locate Flecha Roja _ Passenger List _@) Transportes del. Norte Passengers» Originating in Guadalajara - (F). ‘Transportes del Norte Bus Line Operations, — Monterrey ~@) ‘Picketing Procedures by Transportes: . del Norte Bus Line MISCELLANEOUS | INQUIRIES AT MEXICO cry . CONCERNING OSWALD . a) “Telephone Numbers in OSWALD's . Address Book (B) Possibility OSWALD Sent or Received Money (Cc) Inquiries at Hotel Cuba (D) Jai Alai in Mexico City (EB) OSWALD's Luggage SECRET Page 94 99 99 dag 106 106) . 109 110° a >) 2 212 | 44 ana 116 118
13-00000 © WII. F) . .. Condition of SILVIA DURAN G) (D) -@) 7° @) Vitt, @) (1) ALLEGATION BY YLARIO ROJAS VILLANUEVA | @) | (B) (©)  @) (E) {F) “SECRET Arrest, Interrogation and Physical ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA's Concern About OSWALD's Activities Information Concerning CHARLES SMALL, ae _. Bracelet, Post Cards, Race Track Pamphlet | ALLEGATION BY. PEDRO GUT IERREZ VALENCIA (a) Basis for Inguiry Interviews of GUTIERREZ VALENCIA Character and Reputation of (GUTTERREZ © Information Concerning ARTURO GAONA ELIAS | Inquiry Concerning ERNESTO MITRANI “Further Interviews of GUTIERREZ Inquiries Concerning Renault Information. From. CLAUDIO OLIVEROS Inquiries | ‘Concerning DURAN Family Basis for Inquiry Initial Interviews of YLARIO ROJAS Reinterviews of ROJAS Discrepancies in ROJAS' Story ROJAS Involved in JACOS S, FLOYD Matter ROJAS* Admission of Fabrication . Page 120 122 124 129 129 129 134. (134 136 138 4. 142 144 146 146 147 _ 149 i151 153 155 . , . . . ee .
IX» Ke. : @) SECRET "ALLEGATION BY GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE MISCELLANEOUS. INQUIRIES AND ALLEGATIONS RELATING TO OSWALD (H) a) (J) (x) “Allegation by ANDREW CHAMPION that a Friend of FRANCIS H. FIEDLER of New - Allegation by SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON. os Concerning OSWALD and SILVIA DURAN - . Information Furnished by ROBERT KAFFKE - (Cc) ‘Allegation by ROBERT EDMOND GALLANT, ‘Santa Clara Prison Farm, Santa Clara, California, that OSWALD was in the. . Cuban Embassy in Mexico, D. Bee on duly 12, 1963 () @) ®) G) Allegation by HECTOR FRANCISCO SERRANO Allegation by LUIS FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ Allegation by ROBERT HIMES . Orleans, Louisiana, was OSWALD | Allegation by ALBERTO GoDoy that Film in his Possession Might Depict LEE ‘HARVEY OSWALD and JACK. RUBY ‘Together a Letter to Attorney General ROBERT F. KENNEDY from ERNESTO FLORES LUNA “Information from JOSE GARCIA LUCHICHE that American Woman in Monterrey, Mexico, Telephoned Dallas Before and After Assassination of President KENNEDY Allegation that STEVE KENNAN Might - Have Met OSWALD in Mexico wo Fw SECRET Page . 167 160 160 | -162..- 164. 166 167 170 171 ans ; a 174 178 179 eee cue nee ee ane eanaanaman e ponent acc a so go
13-00000. a) SECRET . | Page Information from ARTURO ALCOCER RUIZ .. (180 Information that ERNESTO RODRIGUEZ, New Orleans, Louisiana, Possessed Taped . _ e Recordings ‘of OSWALD's Spanish os LBL
13-00000 SECRET IX. ALLEGATION BY crineero NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE - ‘The first. confidential source abroad advised that on November 25, 1963, GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE, a Nicaraguan citizen born’ January 31, 1940, in Ciudad Rama, Departamento Zelaya, Nicaragua, made contact with the United _ ‘States ‘Embassy at Mexico, D. Fey and advised the following: ~ ALVARADO entered Mexico illegally from Guatemala on August 29, 1963, traveled to. Mexico, D. F., and subsequently made contact with EDELBERTO TORRES, a Nicaraguan communist residing in Mexico City. From this contact a plan was developed for ALVARADO to travel to Cuba to study guerrilla warfare tactics. He had octasion to visit the Cuban Consulate . in Mexico, D. F., several different times for the purpose of . obtaining travel docurientation for Cuba by furnishing false . identification papers as a Mexican citizen, — ALVARADO claimed that the real purpose behind his” proposed travel to Cuba was a penetration mission for the Nicaraguan Secret Service. He stated that on September 18, 1963, he went to the Cuban Consulate, and while sitting in ‘the waiting room saw a group of approximately eight persons enter the Consulate and the office of Cuban Consul EUSEBIO ~ AZCUE. A person unknown to him was sitting at AZCUE's. desk. . A short time later, while ALVARADO was standing near the door men conversing a few feet away from him. One of them was a -to the men's room at the Cuban Consulate, he noticed three — | tall, thin Negro with reddish hair; the second was a man whom on ALVARADO had seen previously holding a Canadian passport .in fo the waiting room of the Cuban Consulate; and the third person, | according to ALVARADO, was LEE HARVEY OSWALD. oe ALVARADO stated that a tall Cuban joined the above group momentarily and passed sone United. States currency to the Negro. | . . The following conversation between the , Negro and : S OSWALD was overheard by ALVARADO: | | = Negro (in English): I want to kill the man. OSWALD: You're not man enough. I can do it. 157 = , SECRET . —.
13-00000- SECRET Negro (in Spanish): I can't go with you. I have eo a lot to do. OSWALD: The people are waiting for | me back there. ‘ALVARADO stated that the Negro then gave OSWALD . $6, 500 in United States currency of large denominations, saying? "This isn't much." Of this sum, $1,500 was for extra expenses. The Negro also gave OSWALD about 200 Mexican pesos. “In a ‘jater interview, ALVARADO stated that the United States bank notes were in a small pack about one fourth of an inch thick, bound with a paper band, which the Negro broke before counting out $1,500 extra for expenses and $5, 000 as "advance payment. " . . ‘ALVARADO stated that OSWALD had carried a green “passport in his pocket, and he believed he saw OSWALD wearing = _& pistol in a shoulder holster, but he was not sure of this point, He stated that OSWALD had long shoes and a wrist watch '. with a yellow-metal band. According to ALVARADO, OSWALD. appeared to be completely at home at the Consulate and to know and to be known by Cuban Consulate personnel, . ALVARADO was arrested and interrogated by Mexican authorities on November 28, 1963, and a copy of the interro- gation report by the Mexican authorities revealed the following: At the outset ALVARADO's story generally resembled that recorded above. He repeated to the Mexican authorities the details of the scene in which he saw the Negro, the — Canadian and the American conversing together, the delivery - of the money to the American by the Negro, and the conversation he overheard. ALVARADO advised the interviewing Yexican officials that upon seeing the photograph of OSWALD in the newspapers ' following the assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY, he recognized OSWALD as the American he had seen at the Cuban Consulate. An excerpt from " ALVARADO's statement to Mexican authorities, as translated from Spanish, is as follows: . * ead ~ 158 ~ “SECRET
13-00000. SECRET ". ....spontaneously and after reconsidering he desires to state that the dmerican to whom he referred in the body of his statement and whom . he saw the 18th of September of this year in the Cuban Consulate had a certain resemblance, about — . Sixty per cent, to LEE HARVEY OSWALD (assassin - of the President of the United States); That ' after the assassination of President KENNEDY the witness took advantage of this fact in his favor | to exploit it, furnishing versions such as those initially set forth, for the purpose of provoking - an energetic reaction from the political point of view on the part of the United States of America _ against the government of FIDEL CASTRO RUZ and «=. that he had no motive other than the profound , - hatred he feels for communism. That all his Life the witness has dedicated himself to combating . communism and he regrets at this moment not. having ‘accomplished his objective in the sense of causing | a reaction on the part of the American Government , against FPIDEL CASTRO." i Because of the fact that subsequent to making the * shove-mentioned statement to Mexican authorities, ALVARADO claimed that he had changed his statement because of fear, he was interviewed at considerable length on December 5 and 6, 1963, in Mexico, D. Fe by representatives of the United States Government. T-17 advised as follows: After reiterating his story, ALVARADO was afforded a polygraph examination on December 6, 1963. During the course . of the examination he was asked, "Is this the American you saw in the Cuban Consulate?" At the time he was shown photographs of OSWALD. Each time he was asked this question, he definitely responded, "Yes," but it was noted that the polygraph indicated a "deception response" on these answers. These responses and those with respect to other questions led to the conclusion that ALVARADO was a fabricator. It was specifically pointed out to him that the polygraph indicated that he was not being - 159 = SECRET
13-00000 . went on to say that the only explanation he could offer. was - seeing the photograph of OSWALD in the newspaper, he built up within himself, either consciously or subconsciously, a . ALVARADO from Mexico, D. F., to Managua, Nicaragua. . —X. " MISCELLANEOUS INQUIRIES AND ALLEGATIONS _ SECRET | oy truthful in identifying photographs of OSWALD as being . of a person he saw in the Cuban Consulate, and he was asked | for his explanation thereof. ALVARADO replied that he had full faith in the . polygraph and would not attempt to refute its results. He that he had seen an American in the Cuban Consulate on _ September 18, 1963, who resembled OSWALD, and that upon - complete belief that the person he had seen in the Cuban Consulate was OSWALD. ‘On December 8, 1963, Mexican authorities deported . RELATING TO OSWALD , (A) Allegation by SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON Concerning OSWALD and SILVIA DURAN According ‘to the first confidential source abroad, the tite House at Washington, D. C., had received a paper entitled "Possible Psychological Motivations in the Assassi-e — nation of President KENNEDY" written by. JOSE I, LASAGA, 2340 N. Be 7th Avenue, Apartment 4, Miami, Florida, This speculative paper attempted to establish that oo 2 the motivation of OSWALD in the assassination of President re . KENNEDY was FIDEL CASTRO or a CASTRO agent and that OSWALD was so motivated during his trip to Mexico between September © . ae - 27 and October 2, 1963. The paper included the allegation f that OSWALD had an extended interview with the Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, whom he met at a restaurant on the outskirts of Mexico, D. F., from where they departed together in the Cuban Ambassador's automobile for a private conversation, LASAGA had advised the White House that he. received the above report from ANGEL FERNANDEZ VARELA, an employee of the Voice of Cuba in Miami, Florida, who received the infor~- ’ mation from SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON, who reportedly was in ee - 160 « SECRET
« CQ) AuNctassiFiep =») NER (1 CONFIPENTIAL (C1 SECRET -. ROUTING. AND RECORD SHEET SUBJECT: (Optional) . BS | Becutive Reglatry J, Edgar Hoover Memo a I-55) Inspector General , P 16 November 1976 ¥O: (Officer designation, room number, and , building) OFFICER'S COMMENTS (Number ecch comment fo show from whom . ; | recerven FORWARDED INITIALS fo whom. Draw a fine across column after each comment.) oor lw SUBJECT: J. Edgar Hoover Memo : IG -Memorandum 76-3370 dated 16 November 1976 - Subject: Washington Post Story of 13 November 1976 "Oswald Reportedly Told Cubans of Plan to Kill JFK". Se od ot TheCI Staff has locatéd the "Hoover Memo" which we think js that ree - ferred to by the Press. It voluminous memo. consisting o ten chapters. Attached herewith is a copy of the table of. contents and. the relevant pages perginent to the}. Post story. Dae John H. Waller spector General ™“ _ : ; tz rm - . ras - be - (= = i ye rye os re Sa Sree a sis — com 610 “iinene’* (] secret [1] CONFIDENTIAL [[] [NTERNAL =) UNCLASSIFIED
13-00000 Date Remarks: Per the cover sheet, CI Staff thinks it has found the specific memo on Oswald/Cuba/Mexico City, But if you look at pp/159160, you will note the memo states Alvarado, the source, was a fabricator. Hence the decision at the morning mescting to actually go to the FBI and ask still seems quite logical, % 4 i owe ita? aa 1Yelg Date