Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, MX
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/6/70
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : FBI

RECORD NUMBER

: 124-10087-10001

RECORDS SERIES

: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-82555-5652

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR

: FBI

FROM

: LEG, MX

: [No Titlel

: 11/06/1970

DOCUMENT TYPE

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TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

: LHO, POST-RP,

ASSOC, CUBAN,

CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS

CURRENT STATUS

: RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW

:08/12/1996

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DIRECTOR, FBI (105-22555)

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SUBJECT: IS - # - CUBA

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Reference Mexico City letter 10/14/63 in OSWALD case;

Mexico City letter 7/30/53 and Ravana letter 2/23/58 entitled,

"TERESA PROENZA; SM - C;" and Mexico City letter and LAM 10/5/70

entitled, "JORGE LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA; IS - CUBA" (Bufile 105-115365).U

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PROENZA's full name appears to be MARIA TERESA

PROENZA. PROENZA.

She is currently said to be in Havana,

i, Cuba,

after spending several years in Santa Clara Province under

near house arrest.

She now appears to have more freedom.

She is the sister of the wife of JORGE LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA,

a Mexican employee of the Cuban Aviation Company in Mexico City.

Ker brother ALVARO ESTANISLAO PROENZA PROENZA resides in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and "1s

- the subject of an IS - CUBA •

investigation. TERESA PROENZA was the secretary of the Mexican

communist muralist DIEGO RIVERA prior to the revolution.

She

became an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City follow-

ing the revolution. She was described by her brother ALVARO

in 1965 as a "dedicated communist" and

l a "slave of the Cuban

communist government." U

The following information is extracted from the letter

and LAM submitted by Mexico City on 10/5/70 concerning JORGE

LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA and the efforts of his family to arrange

..*

for his sister WARGOT ROJAS MENDOZA to leave Cuba and join the""

family in Mexico: U

according to information furnished byM 1oal

9/21/70, the ROJAS family has become very

embittered about

th

Cuba situation and Mrs. ROJAs, whose full name

AS CARIDAD

CARED BY

EXEMP

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(1-105-135744) (ALVARO PROENZA PROENEX 102

/(1-54-29479) (TERESAY PROENZA PROENZA

'(1-Foreign Liaison Desk)

(1-Philadelphia) (105-11156) (ALVARC PROENZA

3-Mexico City

(1-100-1834) (TERESA PROENZA PROENZA)

(1-105-0-9027) (ALVARO,

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"CACHITA" PROENZA PROENZA DE ROJAS, complained that Cuba has

become a police state and that Cuban authorities. have the

family "all tied up." ROJAS and his wife told*MEY 197*that

a Cuban communist named JUAN MARINE is a friend of the family.

be straightened out.

MARINE recently visited Mexico "incognito"

and informed the POJAS that the situation now is extraordinarily

good but that TERESA was once under a death sentence because

she had dealt with LEE HARVEY OSWALD while assigned to the

Cuban Embassy prior to the assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY.

Her friends interceded for her and her life was spared. ROJAS

told May 197] that MARINE warned them not to tell the Cuban: Dan

Embassy

Mexico City that he had spoken to. them about this

matter

The source stated that JORGE ROJAS and his wife

do not know how to cope with the present situation.

They

fear going to Cuba and they are speaking out against the Cuban

revolution in a most forthright manner.

played by ROJASh wife far

any that the source

can recall in the past.

exceeds

The bitterness dis-

(n) .

The source stated that some years ago, as best he

could recall, he heard JUANA LUISA PROENZA, a sister of CACKITA

who died some years ago,

telling a similar

story of how TERESA

PROENZA was somehow involved with LEE HARVEY OSWALD at the

Cuban Embassy.

At the time TERESA was employed at the embassy,

she

lived with JUANA LUISA and another sister.

Within the

family it has always been said that JUANA LUISA worried herself

to death after TERESA was ordered to Cuba. & (U)

The Mexico City Office has conducted a review of

references to TERESA PROENZA especially those dealing with the

OSWALD investigation and it is noted that as set forth in

Mexico City letter to the Bureau 1/24/64 in the OSHALD case

*MEX 18 and

nation in the past both of whom have furnished rellable infor-

', reported on 1/13/64 that' they had conversed

with ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA, Bufile 100-395934, who told them

of a conversation she held with TERESA. PROENZA, the Cultural

Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.: According to

MORA, TERESA PROENZA had told her. that OSWALD' walked in "cold"

to the Cuban imbassy and the first person he talked to was

PROENZA. Since PROENZA did not speak English, she turned him

and no fee is,

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While it is not

er from available information,

it would appear

that PROONZA

was able to return from Cuba

for

a visit

Mexico following her dismissal and departure

"in 1/64.

By report dated 1/14/85

the CIA reported on the in-

vestigation by the cuban government of Oic line communist

JCAQUIN ORDOQUI MESA.

report. it was indicated that

TERESA PRICENZA had been

arrested at her home and was being

held incommunicado.

CA review of the foregoing material indicates that

TERESA PROONZA got into trouble with the Cuban government more

as a result of her criticism of the handling of the OSWAL

matter following the assassination of President KENNEDY than

because of anything she did when OSWALD visited the Cuban

Embassy. Her harsh criticism of nigh Cuban officials (the

Ambassador and Foreign Minister) was apparently well known

in the embassy and hardly helped her case. *It fails to

indicate that she did anything for CSwAll that would substantiate,

the remarks made by JORGE CJAS and his wife toxiax 197Kthat

TERESA PROENZA had nearly been executed because of her activities

during OSWALD's visit to the Cuban Imbassy in 1983 In the

absence of additional information regarding this activity, no

further investigation is contemplatec at this time. It is

noted that it is not feasible to cirectly interrogate done:

ROJAS or his wife.

However yues 197 will closely follow this

matter with then and any arditional, significant developments

be called promptly. to the attention of the Bureau. a

Cne information copy is being furnished to philadelphia

recently visited

ALVARO said he was surroundes by

Cuban exiles in a derogatory mannerusan s" Ladelphia 7e

BEAUT!

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