13-00000 ae oo | . oo SECRET _— . | | | 4o7. (continued) l Secretariat of Gobernacion about another matter, she told the story, of her encounter w. with a Check Victor RIGO Galan P 58 LIENVOY ; OSWALD. ‘The only person she could remember who ‘told :her this, however,| was Victor RICO | li: | | Galen. / She said she understood that. OSWALD had come to Mexico more than ance. | m 428, 3 Fed 66 : MEMO from Annie Goodpasture to Cuban Section: Will you read this (memo in pera hey abbve) ane | : and tell me if this woman and. daughter were seen creating such a ods tarpance - of they claim - a : in front of the Cuban Embassy. | J. Piccolo wrote pre bells ring with me = Shaw “ee pe NL yos tampoco." Judy wrote: "No plotures either." i i { i \ : oy | ! i keg, 27 Dec | ' MEMO to Ths Amb (cc to Cos) from LEGAT - Ref is made to memo dated 10 Dec 65 (pare 4251 above ) a .../ For your info, Elena and Elenita were interviewed by personnel of this offite on 17 and | 2h Nov 64 at which time they furnished info similar to that set forth in href] meme. Ihquiries ae conducted & at that time failed to substantiate allegations made by Ene daughter. / I | ae . ‘In view of the fact Blena's allegations have been previously checked out without ‘subs , tiation, no further action is. being taken concerning her recent repetition those allegstions. 430. e9nec 65 sti MEXI 5Th1 - Ref: MEXI 5621 -| para 426 above : LEGAT interviewed Elena and Elenite | ho : = Nov 6h and failed substantiate allegations ref, / MEXT will advise: ‘further fo op | NOTE attached to MEXI 5741, written by ‘DCOS (White): "gee. bottom doouent 1 | : on this Subject. I don't know what FBI did in Hov 64, but the GARHO's hav | ; about this for a long time and she is said to be extremely bright." G. so alg | | the following: "1. LA Memo said they checked info MEXI S@ 5621 and at pelea. & : : i COS asked me to send this cable. 3. We will try to ‘confirm or refute Mrs. : ' info and follow up." COS wrote "She is also 'nuts' . : : | | | This document by LICOOKTE vas ‘not in P. p-8595, Document by LICOOKIE dated 5 October 1964 - Mexican Commnhists who! had contgot with OSWALD, but was copied from 50-6-129/3 end attached as has not: ‘appeared in Warren: Comm write-ups in press, - All weekend nae |de Paz, | to MEXT 5741, 29 Dec’ 65. ; 4 Elenita Paz (the daughter) and Deba GARRO de GUERRERO Galvan sat around rec ing details | ! : 7 : of their having been in a group with OSWALD here last fall during the di at was in | : | ; Mexi. | | The \write-ups of the* Warren Comm report in the newspapers spar. th dtdouss on, . po and they apparently hed never’ really sat around determined to piece it all together, although | a all 3 were deeply affected...... The main points: Elena and Deba are first cous of three young Mexicans named Duran: Ruben, Horacio, and Lyn, Horacio is ‘the hus a of Silvia | the Mexican girl who was arrested for questioning about OSWALD because she been in: touch with him at the Cuban Emb when he went ‘there looking for a visa. (She is o: was lalso| ea ringleader at the Cub-Mexican Institute on Tokio) / While OSWALD was here. DURAN ‘cousins invited the GARRO sisters and young Elenita to a "twist" party! i —— EI of Ruben Duran mid-week. A few Commmnists they knew | \(Deba is a Commie hers SECR has been in touch with Commies since she was a young girl and went ‘to Repub “sick? wit a: Octavio Paz. gy and @ number of people who struck them as yery peculdar at the ti there. AND OSWALD WAS THERE WITH TWO OTHER BEATNIK LOOKING BOYS, ONE oF ah ies “TALL AND ALL THREE OF WHOM THEY REMEMBER QUITE WELL. | | 90;
13-00000 450. (continued) 29 mee | . DURAN brothers suddenly have money way? 451. Check AZCUE's LIENVOY file 6 Feb 66 452. 453. 21 Feb 66 Loh 22 Feb 455. 23 me How can it be ascertained. that OSWALD did ‘not , travel to Mexico prior to carly Sent 63. 7 Check Herminio DUARTE Martins i 456. There must be some: ‘basis for Blena! =) revorting. | coe Elena and Blinata were so! sickened | (by the news off their relations with the DURANS. - later. . Deba GARRO de GUERRERO) Gal made trips to Texas. : And that! mos Always poor ‘before, they now have | SECRET However, their ousing ve! says that Lynn expensive car ea ah. | A-T2T Po: Dept of State “FROM: Anenbassy, Mexig o- agencies, there is transmitted herewith a memo of con about Guba.: Victor RICO Galan is a Spanish-born Mexican the most prolific and ardent apologists: for cast : Attachment: Participants: Political Officer - J. Meixco, was'one of the most powerful men now in Guba... / i. immediately on the assassination when he was. Cuban Consul in Mexi, had hed contact with OSWALD. veolesehens | | i THE NEWS - BBC Pile Lee OSWALD Story with US Actor = 1 eee Gia 1 : THE NEWS - Pight for oswaLD's Guns in Court m eecee TRE NEWS ~ Government Awarded OSWALD Guns. t i MEMO TO 6 (a At , ee to cos ~- from LEGAT - “Ref is | made 25 Dec © 26 Sept 63.: OSWALD was resi In view of the fact that Elena GARRO de PAZ's out without substantiation, no of those allegations. | Memo £0 ¢/VIS from COS on Visa! Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 Dec! 36 | OSWALD for info on Gné Herminio DUARTE ‘Martibs. was theres. | a “SECRET | f the assassination) nervously i and lone of t conspicuously! they have all prospere Horacio works at s of possible interest ersation cont@ining sone © ¢an journalist ‘who has been o's Gude | in Mexico. th t | | i | i to Memo of Conversation dated (para 427 above), reo'd by this office on 27 Jan 66, and LEGAT memo dated 27 Dec .65 (para 429 above)... / Extensive investigation conducted in the U.S. and’ ‘Mexico after the assassination failed to disclose that OSWALD traveled to Mexico prior to g ‘in New Orleans, Louisiana in early Sept 64 andino info | has been obteined to indicate {hat ‘he was m away from: ‘that! area in early Sept 63.// - allegations have ‘been /previously checked further action is being taken concerning her yecent repetition Applicant #220, 9 June 66,. DUARTE Martinez, idrminio, '~ Pls see’ LEGAT report dated 16 Dec 3, 8 “Nae. (Note! to Cos from Rosa LEGAT report stated that DUARTE 's car. was noted at the cuban Eaib at. the same ‘the | | OSWALD | ttt ito Whehington | | Elena GARRO de PAZ, Nextcan writer, and; Charles Wm. Thomas, RICO Galan told: ‘Elena that Eusebio AZCUE, former Cub eee she was recall ad to presunably because he ioject, eee ah ‘ : | 1 y broke | them up | m bays ve | lagt year. | DIA nevepeper. Note by pcos: Returned on 21 Apr 6 as L/ never regained contact vith Elena GARRO de PAZ. ervations i i Consul in Havana i | i : ! i t i t ' j | Ref —- WU, 1 | i , i '
13-00000 458. 459. 460. Check Elena's friends and story, LICRANT/1 27? Info from him??? 14 June 66 16 June 25 June 13 July SECRET DIR 12633 - Has has reviewed advance copy book entitled "Inquest" by Edward J. EPSTEIN, subject being assassination... EBook in hands major reviewers, to be released sometime June 66. In discussing CIA role in OSWALD investigations, statement is made on page 94 that Warren Comm had picture by CIA purportedly showing OSWALD entering Cub Emb and that "Picture routinely taken by secret camera from across the street". FYI, this is picture page 638, Vol 16 of Warren Comm... / Since book now in print but not yet on sale, foregoing is advance notice to alert Station for whatever precautionary meafures....... THE NEWS - Jury Finds RUBY Sane - THE NEWS - Lawyers Plead RUEY's Guilt Based on Perjured Testimony - Memo of Conversation ~ Subject: Further on OSWALD and K Assassination ~- (Ref: Memo this Subj of 25 Dec 65 ~ para 427 above) Participants - Elena and Thomas (Pol Officer) ~ Elena described some developments which may have some bearing on her claim that she saw OSWALD at a party at home of her cousin Ruben DURAN when OSWALD was in Mexico prior to assassination. / Elena said Carlos SOLORZANO is well acquainted with Cub Amb HERNANDEZ Armas, and that he was not leftist but his brother, Alfonso, wee a Communist. Amb HERANEDEZ told SOLORZANO he wanted to meet Blena, so SOLORZANO arranged ea party at his own home on 30 June 66 and invited both of them. Also present were Tito MONTEROSO and his wife; Elvire VARGAS, leftist journalist with NOVEDADES and personal friend of Pres DIAZ Ordaz; Emanuel CARBALLO, the pro-Castro writer; Joaquin DIAZ Ganedo, head of publishing firm called Editorial Mortiz; and Juan SORIANO, painter, who was invited to make her feel at ease, Since he is a friend of hers and was the only anti-Communist there besides herself. / Dering evening, Amb HERNANDEZ, whom she described as intelligent and cultured, cancen- trated his attention on her..... and expressed interest in her friend, Carlos MADRAZO. He issued a personal invitation to her to attend the annual literary festival of the Casa de las Americas in Havana. She said she was not a Fideliste and would not go unless Juan SORIANO went with her. Amb HERNANDEZ then invited SORIANO but the latter denounced the Castro regime over the objections of the others present...../ Later, her friend, Victor RICO Gelan who persona@lly dislikes Amb HERNANDEZ warned her not to go to Cuba alone. / On & July 66 a driver from the Cub Emb delivered to her home on Calle Alencastre in Lomas Virreyes an envelope containing two letters and some printed matter from the Casa de las Americas in Havana. The first letter, written last October (667) gave her address as Vermont 38 and the second letter, written in April, gave her address as Vermont 39. The envelope for the first letter, with the above address, was marked for return to the sender, which was the Cub Emb here. The second envelope, which contained the whole pkg, had no eddress as it was hand carried to her home - see attachments. / Elene stated the only reasm the letters were addressed to her at Calle Vermont was because she spent several days at the Hotel Vermont after the assassination. The correct address of the hotel is Vermont 29, so she concluded the Cub Gov carried that street and number, with a minor error, as her regular address. / Since CALVILLO had taken her to the hotel ostensibly to protect her from the Communists, this raised the question of how the Cubans obtained that GE
13-00000 | h60. (continued) 13 July 66 | : address, She said that the only people who kmew she had been at the Hotel ‘Vermont were : : CALVILLO and two close friends of his, Exnesto de la Pefia and Margarita MICHELE ° ‘Two other friends of these three who might have learned of it are Eunice ODIO and June COBB. | She @ has always been suspicious of all three because they went out of their way to | cultivate her when she returned from Europe in 63 ahd made such a point of) ‘being outspoken : professional anti-Communists. ....Eleana said CALVILLO was a close personal friend of Noe : PALOMARES and Pres. DIAZ Ordaz, and that guards, presumably from Gobernacion, had heen placed outside her home when she returned from the Hotel Vermonth....../ Elena thought it possible that the Cub Emb had deliberately given her the letters from the Casa de las Americas with the Vermont Street address in order to frighten her. She was already icon- | cerned about what appeared to be three gunshots that had been fired through her upstairs . window while she was out of the house three weeks ago. .../ Finally, Elena said she had | recently encountered her cousin, Lydia H DURAN and that ‘the latter had been very friendly and wanted to meet her again. She said Lydia was very poor and had @ small job; with. Difision Cultural at the Anthropological Museum. | Attached are letters to Elena from the Casa de las Anericas. | h6l. 2h July 66: THE NEWS - Warren Report Questioned - Richard N. Goodwin made the suggestion (of | an inde- pendent group to determine whether the Warren Comm investigation was inadequate! and defective) in a review printed in Book Week of the book by Edward Jay EPSTEIN entitled "Inquest, the Warren Comm and The Establishment of Truth." --. Goodwin said, "It not cnly | ises | e . a questions but demands exploration and answers." | hée. 28 July THE NEWS - New Home for OSWALD's Widow - About Marina and new husband moving : | | | \ 463. 8 Aug - . The Second OSWALD: The Case for a Conspiracy Theory - Inquest by Edward Jay ePoTE, and, The Warren Comm did not do an adequate Whitewash by Harold Weisberg - by Richard H. Popkin | investigative job.....It. is hard to believe | the Commission served the public well. Presents theory that there were two OSWALD's in the conspiracy... eee Tnstead of ending all the rumors, they set . 7 | the stage for a new, and more serious era. | of speculation. | . | i | Lok. 13 Aut THE NEWS - New Book Due on JFK Case - The third book since the Warren Comm /- "Rush to : Judgement" by Mark Lane, a New York City lawyer, - ....."The force of the evidence is : inescapable ~- the case against OSWALD as the lone assassin is refuted by the very witnesses upon whom the commission relied.... . the FBI report devastates the commission's | conclusi s that all of the shots were fired from the rear and that they were fired by a Lone essassin. " i 7 . : H | |