Originator: FBI
From: GARCIA, JOSEPH B.
To: LEG, MX
Document date: 03/02/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10233-10434

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

11/21/20

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

FBI

124-10233-10434

MX

105-3702-381

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FBI

FROM:

GARCIA, JOSEPH B.

TO :

LEG, MX

TITLE :

DATE: 03/02/1964

PAGES:

11

SUBJECTS :

LHO, POST-RP, SIGHTING, NUEVO LAREDO, MX, INTV,

VILLANUEVA, YLARIO ROJAS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

12/10/1997

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

KH S

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FROM :

SUBJECT:

5010-106-05

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1862 EDITION

GST. CEN. RES. NO. 21

UNITED STATES GOV

UNMENT =

Memorandum

LEGAT, MEXICO CITY (105-3702)

SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA

C/

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

IS -R - CUBA

(CONFIDENTY,

DATE: 3/2/64

SECRET

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45(9803 94(81 101443-144776

CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SUO/GeL

DECLASAIFY ON: 25X

Пк, 12/197

in 1/22-23/64

Acuna #1367,

Consulate in Guadalajara.

He stated that he was born 1n

Cludad Manuel Doblado In the state of Guanajuato, but he

did not know the year and guessed it was about 1932 or 1933.

He further stated he also used the name ELADIO VA TANUEVA

ROJAS. He explained that his mother's name was ESTEFANTA,

ROJAS and that his father, whose surname was VILLANUEVA, was

not known by him and, therefore, most of the time he prefers

to use his mother's maiden name, ROJAS, Instead of his true

He stated that

ctuay he was born on a ranch near cludad Manuel Doblado

tuana juto""The name of this ranch is Guayabo de Santa

Rita and his nother and other relatives still reside on the

ranch.

He stated that he completed the sixth grade at a

ranch school and his formal schooling ended at the age of

14, at which time he began to do ranch work and continued

until about 1949, when he claims to have traveled to the

United States border and crossed Illegally Into the United

States, where he was employed by a man named MacTiN

California, near Highway g and

LoxY

Roxsle Street,

(phanet1c) at Synto individual had a dratrage and imrigetion

ROJAS claims to have worked approximately sever

bears and that he was finally picked up by U.S. Tigration

and this agency allowed him to leave the United States

voluntarily sometime in 1954, at which time he was also

fingerprinted.

During this seven-year period, he claims to have

arried ALICTA GArVIL and that a child of this marriage

born In the united states ne

ALICIA,

according

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woman he met at Cozumel was named CRISTINA.

also claimed that the unidentified American's,

named ALBERT, full name was contained in said

notebook and

name LEE HARVEY

OSWALD was also in the notebook.

5°

Although ROJAS personally was unable to

fix the time of his arrival at Cozumel, he stated

that he was in contact with a Mexican Air Force

Sergeant stationed at Cozumel and who was a recent

sergeant's name, but said the Sergeant had asslsted

ROJAS claimed to have forgotten this

him in keeping watch on said Cubans, ALBERT and LEE

HARVEY OSWALD. -V/

6. ROJAS claimed that the cubans and OSWALD

stayed at the Hotel Playa in Cozumel.

He also

stated that ALBERT stayed at the Hotel Isleno in,

Cozumel.

7•

ROJAS claimed that OSWALD came to cozumel

twice from Jamaica by plane.

DANIEL SOLIS

Municipal POliceman at Cozumel,

was

interviewed on 2/24-25/64.

The original contact was made

with SOLIS In the presence of a well-known Cozumel resident,

NASSIM JOAQULy, SOILS again repeated the statement, pre-

CIA representative at Meridao

that he had not received either of the two

letters supposedly sent him by ROJAS at Guadalajara during

the latter part of January 1964 or early part of February

1964. After a

"feeling out period" during the interview,

SOLIS produced the ROJAS notebook.

The appearance of said 1

I notebook apparently is the same as the one described by

ROJAS at Guadalajara. O

/G)SOLIS hinted that he might have misinformed LACK

STEWART concerning the length of ROJAS' stay In Cozumel

for the purpose of possibly protecting his relative, ROJA.

who is actually the uncle of solis wife, and also because

he paid little attention to the actual length of ROJAS!

However, SOLIS recalled that ROJAS arrived on the

ferry boat "Alberto" at the same time that SOLIS' new superior

and Commander of the Police at Cozumel arrived, whose name

V

CONFIDEN

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