Rea ne ee Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) On March 12, 1964, representatives of the Warren Commission and the CIA confered regarding the February 12 request for the materials forwarded tm |, to the Secret Service by the Agency - ibgtter of J. Lee Rankin March 16, 1964, JFK Doc. i 3872, Slawson . Memorandum, March 12, 1964) The record indicates that the Commission at Se a a’ the March 12 meeting pressed for access to the an} Sa 88Pe Ene gt ATR Part oe Secret Service materlals. Rankin: wrote to Helms on March 16 that it was his understanding that the CIA would supply the Commis’sion with a paraphrase of each report or communication pertaining to the Secret Service materials “with all indications of your confidential communications techniques and confidential a ema sources deleted. UYou will also afford menbers-of— our staff working in this area an Opportunity to ‘ review the actual file so that they may give assurance | ao .< that the paraphrases are camplete." (Letter of J. - BYES f°" ™ ‘ foik 221- 25¢ Ply Rankin, March 16, 1964, paragraph 2, JFK Doc. No. 3872) ERE, Rankin further indicated that the same procedure was to be followed regarding any material in the possession of the. CIA orior to November 22, Classified by derivation:
Classification: ___ «#5 (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) 1963 which had not as yet been furnished because it concerned sensitive sources and methods. (Ibid.,. par. 3). -Helms responded to Rankin's March 16 letter on March 24 (POLAT Y 622-258) by two separate -FotA Gan -256& communications. (CIA Doc. DDP4- ~1554, hereinafter CDF 631, F321 421-25 3/24/64, CIA Doc., DDP4-1555, 3/24/64, CD 674 hereinafter) CD 631 provided the Commission with a copy of the October 10, 19463 CIA dissemination to FBI, State Dept., INS and Navy Dept. (and to the Secret Service on 22 Nov.) regarding Lee Harvey Oswald and his Cepus/ ) at the Soviet Consulate in Mexico City. The response . Ss presence - further revealed that on October 23, 1964, CIA had the Navy requested two copies of the most recent photograph of Oswald in order to check the identity of the person believed to be Oswald in Mexico city: Furthermore, the CIA stated, though it did not indicate when, that it had determined that the photograph shown to MaBueni te Oswald on November oy, 1963 G@id not refer to Lee (see fleace, go: Vol f fire : Nia. GI (RI UAT. “QR. "NGA. NEM, Harvey Oswald!" the Agency explained that it had checked the @ against the press photographs of Oswald Generally available on November 23, 1963,7 # a, CD 674 reveals that on Classification: ae | 902053 Classified by derivation: SS I Nov. 22, 1963 immediately follow snotosrey Sistas “aay |
_ ‘Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted . the BS SAS SOT CRE Lod ef Hod AN GRP Er 23, 1963, three cabled reports Were recéived at CIA headquarters | from the CIA Mexico City Station regarding photographs wa Sa ee ae . ; of an unidentified-man who had Visited the Cuban and EeTT: Soviet Embassies during October and November 1963. Paraphrasas of these cables, not revealing sensitive sources and methods, were attached to cp 674. The Agency wrote that the subject of the photo referenced in these cables was not Oswald. It was further stated that: “In response to our meeting of 12 March and your memo of 16 March7,jStern and, Willens uO {ro weet review at Langley the original copies a cir of these #7 disseéminations to the Secret ~ Service and the cables,on which they were @Q based,.as well as the Ghokss Or the unidenti- QO wa. fied man" (CIA-Dee:—DDP4=1555 CDs3¢, 24 ne Maxch-i964) >sthet ackin ourfkiles i. -On March 26, William Coleman wrote in a memorandum for the record: “The CIA directed @ memorandum to J. Lee Rankin Tho Le onsMarch—24,-t9¢4 (Commission Document No. 631) in which “it set forth .the dissemination of . the information on Lee Harvey Oswald. I reh1ive that this memorandum is only a partial answer to our inquiry to the CIA dated March 16, 1964 and I hope that the complete answers will give’ Ie us the additional information we requested." ' (Memorandum of William Coleman, March 2k, 1964) S) on Le Coleman went on to state: "As you know, we are still trying to get an explanation of the photograph which the FBI showed Marguerite Uswald soon after the pers wae OE Classification: RB, NRG. NGA SM, EGE ri, me and NOE NGA ‘fs ‘Y
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) assassination. I hope that paragraph 4 are of the memorandum of March 24, 1964 &) o [cp 631] sent Mr. Rankin by the CIA is not ‘the answer which the CIA intends to give us as to this Anguiry."(Thid.) The following aay “f as agreed by Warren Commission and Agency representatives, Samuel Stern of the Commission visited, CIA headquarters in Langley, ET Oe re eee woe iT a : are (AacAm Virginia, “40> Fees Sterns' memorandum of his visit reveals that he reviewed Oswald's file with Raymond Rocéa” ' Stern indicated that Oswald's file contained those materials furnished previously to the Warren Commission by A i? the ctat Pane file also contained: fren t Tac gi Station inldeys co “SNR, WR “SWRA SR, WHI. t ‘ ; @ Ow "Cable reports‘ of November. 22, and-Nevember & Oe 1493 = ‘ 23, from-the-CiA'sMexice—City—Stecion es OP a pw sen wivenadia ih red PF relating to_thke photographs of €he-unddenti- . Wtet Che nw ONG Seg away oF an ee oe =) Awe ais O Ctonma Aryl fr De Er fior Be . fLed~individualmistakenly -belteved-to-be > 2 S 3 Vs * ‘ PT Lee—Harvey Oswald ‘and thé reports on thdse “ c/A cables furnished on November 23, 1963 ‘se a ; . ~ £06a-0 . 5-2 oe aaa F A nk Sagi are SF ja ARS the Secret Service, by—the—GEA. " (Memorandum. PAGER uN ani erg pers Fe recta, Wigmore —— Coemnep S36 Se ee of Soanel stern Mache 7-196 4) a ea, Stern noted that these messages were accurately paraphrased in the attachments to CD 674 provided the eetigt. # rea c 24on Y of CD G3l 5s thed the CIA cncludecl Aa pote yuph of aiden rch ALi faa Aid not Lép ito b eras sihegt Ogee Phe maces of Comuid & cere nis 334 3 5 oy Ss Pi Sse tT Classified by derived 0074. fee" “ut
a a he Ss (5 o\~ mission| has not been given either in full text or - 49° _ Classification: ST | (This form is to be used for materiale extracted Warren ComftaneGlorr-ont flies caeemestsd 9647” He also i reviewed the October 10, 1963 cable from CIA' Ss Mexico city Station to © CIA headquarters reporting Oswald's, contact with the Soviet Embassy a in Mexico city in addition, Stern examined the October 10, 1963 cable from CIA headquarters to. the Mexico City Station reporting background infor- mation on Oswald." (Ibid.) Stern recorded that . these messages were Zpor rR oll =paraphresed accurately ag-set—fexth in the CIA! s January 31 memo to the Warren Commission reporting Oswald's Mexico City tripe bia Lastly, Stern noted that Rocca provided him for his review a computer printout of the references to Oswald-related documents located in the Agency's = ue electronic data storage system: H He oes "there is 6 « no item listed on-the—psinteout which fthe Warren Com-. PB oo. ' paraphrased.“ (Ibid..) Thus, by the 27th of March, a Warren Commission representative had been apprised of the circumstances surrounding the mysterious photograph. Classification: —@—_r— Classified by derivation: goa072 NAY. SRE NEED, “WB, = EI. "NEES. pues kek Heo Aahs i BHD a AtAS,
Classification: = (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) ms . i . . —— >" Luisa Calderon Approximately five hours after President Kennedy's assassination a Cuban government employee in Mexico City named "Luisa" received a telephone ~ x call from an unidentified man speaking Spanish. LM Gd ce {ee (CIA Doc. FO : 5S, 11/27/63, 173-615, attachment) [this call had been intercepted and recorded by the CIA's Mexico City-Station as the result of its LIENVOY (tel. tap) operation] (Ibid.) The Mexico City Station, as subsequently reported to CIA headquarters, identified the Luisa of the conversa- tion as Luisa Calderon, who was then employed in the Commercial Attache's office at the Cuban Consu- late. (TIbid.) | ‘During the course of the conversation, the unidentified caller asked Luisa if she had heard (of the assassination) ors al the latest news. Luisa replied in a joking tone: ar “Yes, of course, I knew almost before Kennedy." (Ibid.) es CIA's os Paraphrasing the [telephone intercept] transcript, it states that the caller tOld-imisa~” the person c — a — ¥ fa Fagor fast 97 spr antlalvTor’s 1p N70 CIF 1 * < ~ ‘ — =~ «> Ot Caldera’ s Gp Pr rmen isa, a oll ee" Ciassification: NUR Nighi
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from C!A—controlled documents.) apprehended for Kennedy's slaying was the "President of one of the Committees of the Fair 1s ja ve Play for Cuba." Luisa replied that she also knew chard this7 Luisa inquired whether the person being . Ger held for the killing was a “gringo.” The unidenti- abe fied caller replied, “yes." Luisa told her caller that she had learned nothing else about the assassina- tion and. that she-had learned about the assassination abit only a little while ago. The unidentified caller commented: We think that if it had been or had seemed...public or had been one of the segregationists or against - intergration who had killed Kennedy, then there was, let's say, the possibility that a sort of civil war would arise in the United States; that contradictions would be sharvened... who knows —pe-A Luisa responded: Imagine, one, two, three and now, that makes three. (She laughs.} (Ibid, p. 2) Pe Raymond Rocca, in response to a 1975 Rocke- feller Commission request for information on a ' possible Cuban conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy wrote regarding Calderon's conments: & @ ‘ih WU NRA A, "Naa, RN, “RISER. NY UE,
ce” Geetetisn: a This form is us mois sss for material Ares ted mis 19 Be ocumen #5) from A—coniro eq acumen S. -55- Latin hyperbole? Boastful ex post facto \ suggestion of foreknowledge. This is the. \ aan only item in thel intercept coverage} of qY the Cubans and Soviets aftér the aSsassina~ wa tion that contains the suggestion of fore- we eye ‘knowlege of expectation. (CIA Doc., Memorandum of Raymond Rocca for DC/OPS, co 5/23/75, Dp. 15)* (sae pS Sa Sor ®) ° “Standing by itself, Luisa Calderon's cryptic comments do not merit serious attention. Her words may indeed indicate foreknowledge of the assassina- tion but may equally be interpreted without such a sinister implication. Nevertheless, the Committee has determined that Luisa Calderon's case should have merited serious attention in the months following the assassination. In connection with the assassination, Pasa Calderon‘s name first surfaced on November 27, 196d in a cable sent by then Ambassador Mann to the. State Hy pte os “ ‘Department (CIA Doc. DIR 85573, 11/39/63). N P& e ; In that. cable Mann stated: “,..Washington should urgently consider feasibility of requesting Mexican authorities to arrest for interrogation: Eusebio Azcue, Luisa Calderon and Alfredo Mirabal. The two men are Cuban national and Cuban consular officers. Luisa Calderon is a secretary in Cuban Consulate here." (Cbid.). Sais Wy ees, EE a “ 7 gee ca NUS NEUE « “DC. ~alieaaen A wexpenenn” a wdianent
- Glassificatign: —seexee— -caenstengpnnptntttereteee is form is fo be used or material extracte This orm i§ fg € used for material Stasis rom ElA—con ra ed ocuments © fay C 3 o p=) pars an, ~ “Gaels, A—conire ee. *Regarding the issue of whether Calderon's comments - could reasonably be interpreted to indicate possible foreknowledge, the CIA position is as follows: During the Rockefeller Commission inquiry, Calderon's conversation was identified as a@ possible item of information from thel Agency ‘ s] Cuban and Soviet [telephone } [intercepts]that might suggest foreknowledge of a plot to assassinate the American Presi- dent. This involves a faulty translation of an answer Calderon gave to her caller. In answer to the latter's question as to whether she had heard the latest news, Calderon said: “Si, claro, me entere casiantes que Kennedy." The verb entere is mistranslated.. Me entere (the first person of the verb enterarsede, past tense) should be translated as ".f TI found out (or I learned) /about it -- the assassination/ . almost before Kennedy /did7." In other words, Ef Calderon was saying she heard about the shooting Fs of Kennedy almost at the time the event took place..." (CIA Doc., Memorandum Regarding Luisa Calderon conversation, p.l). CP alt The Committee fundamentally disputes the narrow interpretation of Calderon's comments Lif, assigned by the Agency. It is the Committee's pone position that translation of Me Entere as Ey ¢ either "I found out" or “I learned about" @ ,. « « ; does not foreclose interpretation of Calderon's r comments as a suggestion on her part of possible foreknowledge of President. Kennedy's assassination. « The inky pretation, ynrang event, should hace con leet ts . Vie judas of theiBarren Comm sssio jn st thet (A ; pe goa Ei fi igA: ——oe 000076 CHS By SE
Classification: _—¢eeret= Classification: ___ (This form is to be used for material extracted {ie Guin resolled ABLE Hb terial extracted from ClA—<ontrolled dgcuments.) This cable does not state the basis for arresting Calderon.* However, the CIA's copy of this cable bears a handwritten notation on its routing page. That notation states: “Info from Amb Mann for Sec Rusk re: «.-persons involved with Oswald in Cuban Embassy." Mann went on to state in urgent Dt terms: "They may quickly be returned to Havana in order to eliminate any possibility that Mexican x ; iRESSVS ao (Government could use them as witnesses." (Boia >) According to CIA’files, Calderon made reservations to return to Havana on Cubana Airlines on December 11, 1963, less than four weeks after the assassination. (CIA Doc. CSCI-316/01783-65, 4/26/63) a iC Calderon, Agcue and Mirabal were not arrested & G nor detained for questioning by the Mexican federal fee police. However, Silvia Duran, a friend and associate of Calderon's and the one person believed to have ree VITR “ lk *It is the Committee's belief that Mann was prompted to request the arrest of Calderon. on the basis of Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte's allegation that Calderon /Was present at the Cuban Embassy when Oswald was allegedly given a sum of money presumably to _ carry out the assassination of President Kennedy. %m i (CIA Doc. DDP4-2741, 1 June 1964, Attachment C) . rr ee id le tae fo . 7 Af > fae Lm ee gt we + ene ee | “902027 Classification: —Secsee- | : Cc. Berk | Glessied by devotion A . ; . , van “ed ree TA aman MAAN tie Roe fecalh M5 not Omen phon) ery, eck Come st
elesifcetin: <2 This “gem is ig be used ior astsnis! Satcested rom ClA—ssntrolled dosyments,) ~57= had repeated contact with Oswald. while he was in Mexico City, was arrested and questioned by the Mexican police on two separate occasions. (CIA =>. “OF - 25 11/27/63) ~ @O-& Doc. DIR 84950, 11/23/63, CIA Doc. DIR 85471,72-* /B+ -~F y During her second interrogation, Duran was questioned regarding her association with Calderon. There is no indication in the reinterrogation report es accounting for the questioning of Duran about Calderon. Set = Theos SD Fo — ‘4 % -f (CIA Doc. DDP4- -0940, 2/21/64) . The information mn 2 is regarding Duran's interrogation was passed to the Warren Commission on February 21, 1964, more than two months afte Calderon had returned to Cuba. (Ibid.) r Information was reported to the CIA during May 1964, from a Cuban defector, tying Luisa Calderon to the Cuban Antelligence apparatus. A The Mm 4» ¢. defector, (AMuG- 1, was himself a Cuban Intelligence Officer who supplied valuable and highly reliable information to the CIA regarding Cuban Intelligence operations. (CIA Doc., Memorandum of Joseph Langosch to Chief, Office of Security, 6/23/64) Calderon's Glassificatign: —neeoret-————— |  Chssifiess by, os 0523 0.09978 rivat jon: _—C.—Berk ord < EXULi
ve aad ‘Ghassifcction, a This form ig tg be used for material axastes ram ClA—can trolled sesuments,) -~STa- “GS... YOR. ties to Cuban intelligence were reported to the Warren Commission on June 18, 1964. (CIA Doc. FOIA #739~319, 6/19/64) However, the Committee has determined from its review that the CIA did not provide Calderon's Miah, Batson conversation of November 22 to the Warren Commission. Consequently, even though the Warren Commission was aware that < § ; ve SORE @09073 | Ciassified ty servotg toni: Coenen tl
«adhe Classification: 356255 Oe (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) Calderon nad connections to intelligence WOLrK, as did other Cuban Embassy officers, the vital link between her background and her comments was never established for the Warren Commission by the CIA. The Agency's oversidht: in this _ regard may have forclosed the Commission fron ~ actively pursuing a lead of great significance. Calderon's.201 file reveals that she “— — arrived in Mexico City from Havana on January 16,, 1963, carrying Cuban Passport E/63/7. ‘Her date . of birth was believed to be 1940 (CIA Doc. Dispatch HMMA21612, no dite Given) Calderon's presence in Mexico City was first reported by the CIA on July 15, 1963 ina dispatch from the CIA's Miami field office to the CIA's Mexico City station ané@ to the Chief of che CIA's Special Affairs Staff (for Cuban operations). (CIA Doc. Dispatch |SF¢a 10095, 7/15/63) That dispatch had attached to it a report containB&s 3» ° biographic data on personnel then assigned to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. At vage three of the tached report Luisa Calderon was listed as Secretary of the Cuban Embassy's commercial office. che a 999039 Classified by derivation: a? NOS, DS a a ae arn aN a ER, i rE ee a QT h.
, - S59 -- Classification: eT (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—<controlled documents.) notation indicated that a report was pending on . . . No such report is present Calderon. (Ibid., p. 3 of attachment) ‘The in Calderon's 201 File. . Agency has attempted, without success, to locate ; the report. . Luisa Calderon's association with the Cuban DGI was first{recorded by the cta] on May -S,; 1964. (CIA Doc.*Blind Memorandum of [Harold Gwelsor FOIA ® o & 682290 5/5/64) At that time, Joseph Langosch, Chief of Counterintelligence for the Special Affairs — Staff, reported the results of his debriefing of the Cuban defector, AMMUG-1. The memorandum stated that ‘AMMUG-1 had no direct knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald or his activities but was able to provide | items of interest based upon the comments of certain Cuban Intelligence Service officers. (Ibid.) - Specificaliy, -AMMUG-1 was asked if Oswald was known to the Cuban intelligence services before November 23, 1963. ‘ AMMUG-1-told Langosch “Prior to October 1963, osweld ° visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City_on two or three occasions. Before, during and after these visits, Oswald was in contact with the Direccion ae 000381 } 4 “Classified by derivation: 7 on a a SRIRS, NY NSH, Nei, NSE. “Nagyaiad, |
Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—<controlled documents.) General De Intelligencia (DGI), specifically - with Luisa Calderon, Manuel Vega Perez, and Rogelio Rodriguez Lopez." (Ibid.) Langosch thereafter wrote that Calderon's precise relationship to the DGI was not clear. As a comment to this statement he set forth the CIA cable and dispatch traffic which recorded her arrival in Mexico during January 1963 ané@ departure for Cuba within one month after the assassination. (Ibid.) . On May 7, 1964, Langosch recorded additional information he had elicited from AMMUG-1 regarding Oswald's possible contact with the DGI. (CIA Doc f ee ‘ POIA 687-295, attach. ¥, 5/7/64) Paragraph 3 of this memorandum-stated in part: “a. Luisa Calderon, since she returned - to Cuba, has been paid a regular Salary by the DGI even though she has not verformed any services. Fe Her home is in the Vedado section wnere the rents are high. b. Source (AMMUG) has known Calderon for several years. Before going to Mexico, she worked in the Ministry of Exterior Commerce in the department which was known if as the “Empres@ Transimport." Her title was Secretary General of the Communist Youth in the department named in the previous sentence. (Ibid.) fr 7 Classification: ——————— __ ggggaz: Classified by derivation: NG WR = GA eh "NRE, ? Nastia. “RS,