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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

RETURNIC CIA

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8 March 1967

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Possible DRE Animus Towards President Kennedy

1. This memorandum makes record of a recollection

which has been brought to mind in recent weeks since my return

from Yugoslavia in late November 1966.

2. In Spring 1961, upon returning from Berlin I was

assigned to JMWAVE. One of the cases on which I worked from

then until shortly before my reassignment to Headquarters in

late summer 1963 concerned funding of overseas elements of

the DRE (Student Revolutionary Directorate) which had its main

office in Miami (the case officer for this group during this

period was Mr. Rosa CROZIER, since resigned).

3. I believe that it is this group, the DRE, which has been

referred to in investigations into the President's assassination

as the Cuban Student Directorate, whose New Orleans represen-

tative is said to have had contacts with OSWALD.

4. I have assumed that, since the time I was transferred

from Miami and scheduled for my next assignment as COB,J27

10 age rotti a better in deat respectin of me bit imoive-

ment with OSWALD, in order to rule out any slight possibility

that compromise of the ClA sponsorship uf this organization

might in any way embarrass the Agency. Recent news reports of

investigations centering in New Orleans on the assassination have

once again brought to mind the concern I felt in November 1963,

by which time, however, I was far removed from current knowledge

of the operation.

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5. I do retain a distinct recollection that the DRE leader-

ship, specifically Luis FERNANDEZ Rocha, whom I met several

times, did hold,sentiments of chagrin and embitterment that

President Kennedy had not more forcefully pursued a "liberation"

os Cuba. Whether or not this animus, which could be discerned

as occasional signs of anger or of contempt or of discouragement.

might have been translated into a wish for revenge, may be better

known to other officers who dealt with this group after the summer

O 1963.

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Calvin Thoma

SB/O/PT

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