NOTE FOR: TRANSLATION INFORMATION FOR ATTACHMENTS TO JFK DOCUMENT 104-10018-10070
Originator: CIA
From: BARRY HARRELSON
To: MARY ACAULIFFE
Document date: 02/13/1996
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

13 February 1996

NOTE FOR: Mary McAuliffe

FROM:

Barry Harrelson

SUBJECT:

Translation Information for Attachments

to JFK Document 104-10018-10070

1.

A CIA translator confirmed that the attachment,

dated 1 December 1963, is a translation of the full-page

attachment in Dutch and Spanish dated 1 December 1963.

The translator reported that the translation reads a little

awkwardly, but the original, a telegram, was also rather

awkward.

He further stated that the Dutch text on the same

page was also a translation of the Spanish text above it.

2.

The following is a translation for attachment

AC-56, dated 2 December 1963:

SUBJECT:

Statements by SANTOS MESA

It has been heard that during a USSR reception on

7 November of this year,

the third secretary of the Cuban

Embassy in the Hague, Richardo SANTOS MESA, was asked about

CASTRO's reaction to attacks on Cuba by Cuban exiles.

He

replied "Just wait, and you will see what we can do; it will

happen soon." (quoted response given in English in the

original)

SANTOS declined to elaborate.

It has also been heard that SANTOS has a brother who lives

in the United States as an "exile."

Although this brother is pro-Castro, he is said to have

left Cuba at

• the urging of his conservative wife.

SANTOS is said to exchange correspondence with this

brother.

2 December 1963

Barry Harrelson

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

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14 February 1996

NOTE TO:

SUBJECT:

REFERENCE:

ARRB Staff

Further Clarification of Coding

ARRB Record Number 104-10018-10070

Clarification:

This document refers to official Dutch reports, detailing

Dutch technical operations against Cuban officials, which were

shared with the Station. Particular care must be taken to

protect this specific operation of liaison exchange. (S)

The deletions need to remain in order to ensure that liaison

involvement is not revealed. (S)

In short, the release must only indicate unilateral (i.e..

Station) operational

activity. (S)

RETURN TO CIA

Background Use Only

= Do Not Reproduce

CL BY: 611637

C1 Reason: 1.5 (c)

DECL ON: X1

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