FORM:ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET:J. EDGAR HOOVER MEMO
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: INSPECTOR GENERAL
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 11/16/1976
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UNCLASSIFIED

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USE ONLY

ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET

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FROM:

J. Edgar Hoover Memo

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Inspector General

TO: (Officer designation, room number, and

building)

1.

Mr. Dave Grinwis/

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DATE

OFFICER'S

INITIALS

NO.

DATE

16 November 1976

COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom

to whom.

Drew a line ocross column offer. each comment.)

RECEIVED

FORWARDED

SUBJECT: J. Edgar Hoover Memo

REF: IG Memorandum 76-3370 dated

16 November 1976 - Subject:

Washington Post Story of

13 November 1976 "Oswald

Reportedly Told Cubans of

Plan to Kill JFK"

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5.

TheCI Staff has located the "Hoover

Memo" which we think is that re-

ferred to by the Press.

It is a

voluminous memo consisting of ten

chapters. Attached herewith is a

copy of the table of contents and

the relevant pages pertinent to the

Post story.

John H. Waller

(Inspector General

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SEUCT

SECREI,

Federal Bureau of Investigation

June 5,

By Liaison

Pacid CHI

8 JUN 1964

1964

Director

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D. C. 20505

ATTENTION: Deputy Director, Plans

Dooley

For your information, I'am enclosing communications which may be

of interest to you.

No further investigation is contemplated with regard to this matter.

You will be advised of the pertinent developments in connection

with this inquiry.

Status of case:

Incomplete

• Completed

Very truly yours,

Enc. !

John Edgar Hoover

Directoy

(Upon removal of classified enclosures, if any,

this transmittal form becomes UNCLASSIFIED.)

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SECREI,

Federal Bureau

of Investigation

June 5,

By Liarson

• 8 JUN 1964

1964

Director

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D. C. 20505

ATTENTION: Deputy Director, Plans

Dear Sir.

ita

For your information, I am enclosing communications which may be

of interest to you.

No furtber investigation is contemplated with regard to this matter.

You will be advised of the pertinent developments in connection

with this inquiry.

Status of case:

Incomplete

Completed

Very truly yours,

Hoover

Enc.

John Edgar Hoover

Director

(Upon removal of classified enclosures, if any,

this transmittal form becomes UNCLASSIFIED.)

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer 30

File No.

WASHINGTON 25, D. Co

SEGRET

MAY 1 8 1964

IS HARVEY OSWALD

"Compilation of facto tenown to date an Oowald's

trip to Mexico and his activities while there;

¡allegations by various individuals concerning Oswald's

Mexican contacts

PROPERTY OF THE FBI

This document contains neither

recommendations nor conclusions of

the FEI. It is the property of the

FBI and is loaned to your agency; it

and its contents are not to be

distributed outside your agency,

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TABLE OF

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'INTRODUCT ION

TRAVEL TO MEXICO BY LEE HARVEY OSWALD

(Septenber 26-27, 1963)

(A)

OSWALD's Application for United States

Passport, June 24, 1963

(B) OSWALD's Mexican Tourist Visa

(C) Results of FBI Laboratory Examination

Of OSWALD®s Tourist Card

(D) Closing of United States-Mexican Border

(E): Mexican Newspaper»

"Excelsior,"

November 25, 1953,

Issue re:

OSWALD'S Trip to Mèxico

(F)

Checks Made on Compania de Aviacion

Passenger Manifests for September 26-27,

1963

(G) Check at OSWALD's Port of Entry

into Mexico

(H) Check of Flecha Roja (Red Arrow) Baggage

List for Passengers for November 26, 1963,

Trip from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico, D. F.

(I) List Obtained of Entry of All Non-Mexican

Citizens on September 26, 1963, at Nuevo

Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico

(J)

Persons Interviewed in Mexico

• Who Entered

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Interview of ROBERTO MORALES, Driver

of Flecha Roja (Red Arrow) Bus No. 516

from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City on

trip for September 26 and 27, 1963

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Interview of FiNESTO FERNANDEL, CO-drIVer

of Flecha Roja (Red Arrow) Bus No. 516

from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City on

September 26 to 27, 1963

OSWALD IN MALICO CITY

(A). "New York Times" Newspaper Account

(B) OSWALD's Visits to Cuban and Soviet

Diplonatic Establishments -

Investigation by Mexican Authorities

(0)

Other Inquiries by Mexican

Federal Security Police

(D)

Hotel Accommodations of LEE HARVEY

OSWALD in Mexico City

1. OSVALD'S Registration at Hotel

2 Examination of Handwriting on

Hotel Register by FBI Laboratory

3. Identities of Persons at Hotel

During Same Period as OSWALD

* Interview of Manager and

Other Personnel at Hotel

5.

Other Inquiries in the Area of

the Hotel del Comercio, Taxi

Stands, and Bus Terminals

6.

Inquiries in Neighborhood of

Hotel

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IV.

Interviews of Guests at

Hotel del Comercio

8. Reputation of Hotel del Comercio

OSWALD'S DEPARTURE FROM MEXICO

(A)

Interview of HERBERT ROBERT VOOREES,

Passenger on Transportes del Norte Bus

Traveling Irom San Luis Potost to Nuevo

Laredo on October 2 to 3, 1963

(B) Checks of Records of Other Bus. Lines

(C): Transportes del Norte Passenger

Iist for October 2, 1963

(D) Record of Location of Transportation

Sold to H. O. Lio

(E) Interview of ROLANDO BARRIOS RANS

(F)

Interview of Personnel at Transportes

del Norte Terminal, Mexico City

(G)

Interviews of Personnel at Transportes

del Norte Bus Terminal

Restaurant,

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

(H)

Inquiry at Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

Main Offices of Transportes del Norte

(I) Bus Passenger ANASTASIO RUIZ MEZA

Identified Photographs of LEE HARVEY OSWALD

(J) Interview of Transportes del Norte

Passenger JOSE BABRIGA BERNAL

(K) List Obtained of Departure of Non-

Mexican Citizens on October 3, 1963,

at Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

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(L.) Additional List of Persons Who

Departed on October 3, 1963, and

Entered on September 26, 1963

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OSWALD'S Travel Documents and

Mexican Government Records

OTHER INQUIRIES CONCERNING OSWALD'S TRAVEL

(A): Transportes Frontera Bus Line

(B) Inguiry at Flecha Roja Bus Terminal

(C)

OSWALD's Time of Arrival In Mexico City

(D)

Efforts to Locate Flecha Roja

Passenger List

(E)

Transportes del Norte Passengers

Originating In Guadalajara

(F)

Transportes del Norte Bus Line

Operations, Monterrey

(G)

Ticketing Procedures by Transportes

del Norte Bus Line

MISCELLANEOUS INQUIRIES AT MEXICO CITY

CONCERNING OSWALD

(A)

Telephone Numbers In OSWALD's

Address Book

(B). Possibility OSWALD Sent or Received Money

(C) Inguiries at Hotel Cuba

(D)

(E)

Jai Alai in Mexico City

OSWALD's Luggage

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(F)

Arrest, Interrogation and Physical

Condition of SILVIA DURAN

(G)

ELIZABETH CATLEIT MORA's Concern

About OSWALD's Activities

(H)

Information Concerning CHARLES SMALL,

Bracelet, Post Cards, Race Track Pamphlet

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ALLEGATION BY PEDRO GUTIERREZ VALENCIA

(A) Basis for Inquiry

(B) Interviews of GUTIERREZ VALENCIA

(C) Character and Reputation of GUTIERREZ

(D) Information Concerning ARTURO GAONA ELIAS

(E)

Inquiry Concerning ERNESTO MITRANI

(F) Further Interviews of GUTIERREZ

(G) Inquiries Concerning Renault

(H) Information From CLAUDIO OLIVEROS

(I) Inquiries

Concerning DURAN Family

VIII. ALLEGATION BY YARIO ROJAS VILLANUEVA

(A) Basis for Inquiry

(B) Initial Interviews of YLARIO ROJAS

•(C)

Reinterviews of ROJAS

(D)

Discrepancies in ROJAS' Story

(E)

ROJAS Involved in JACOB S. FLOYD Matter

(F)

ROJAS® Admission of Fabrication

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ALLEGATION BY GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE

MISCELLANEOUS INQUIRIES AND ALLEGATIONS

RELATING TO OSWALD

(A) Allegation by SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON

Concerning OSWALD and SILVIA DURAN

(B) Information Furnished by ROBERT KArke

(C)

Allegation by ROBERT EDMOND GALLANT,

Santa Clara Prison Farm, Santa Clara,

California, that OSWALD was in the

Cuban Embassy in Mexico, D. E•, On

July 12, 1963

(D) Allegation by HECTOR FRANCISCO SERRANO

(E) Allegation by LUIS FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ

(F)

Allegation by ROBERT HIMES

(G)

Allegation by ANDREW CHAMPION that a

Friend of FRANCIS H. FIEDLER Of New

BANCAR EY

Orleans, Louisiana, was OSWALD

(H)

Allegation by ALBERTO GODOY that Filn

in his Possession Might Depict LEE

HARVEY OSWALD and JACK RUBY Together

(I) Letter to Attorney General ROBERT E.

KENNEDY frOm ERNESTO FLORES LUNA

Information from JOSE GARCIA LUCHICHI

that American Voman in Monterrey, Mexico,

Telephoned Dallas Before and After

Assassination of President KENNEDY

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Allegation that STEVE KENNAN Might

Have Met OSWALD in Mexico

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Information from ARTURO ALCOCER RUIZ

Information that ERNESTO RODRIGUEZ,

New Orleans, Louisiana, Possessed Taped

Recordings of OSWALD's Spanish

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IX. ALLEGATION BY GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE

The first confidential source abroad advised that

on November 25, 1963, GILBERTO NOLASCO ALVARADO UGARTE, a

Nicaraguan citizen born January 31, 1940, in Ciudad Rama,

Departmento velaya, Nicaragua, made contact with the United

States Embassy at Mexico, D. F., and advised the following:

ALVARADO entered Mexico illegally from Guatemala on

August 29, 1963, traveled to. Mexico, D. F., and subsequently

made contact with EDELBERTO TORRES, a Nicaraguan communist

residing in Mexico City. From this contact a plan was

developed for ALVARADO to travel to Cuba to study guerrilla

warfare tactics.. He had occasion to visit the Cuban Consulate

In Mexico, D. F., several different times for the purpose of

obtaining travel docusentation for Cuba by furnishing false

identification papers as a Mexican citizen.

ALVARADO claimed that the real purpose behind his

proposed travel to Cuba was a penetration mission for the

Nicaraguan Secret Service. He stated that on September 18,

1963, he went to the Cuban Consulate, and while sitting in

the waiting room saw a group of approximately eight persons

enter the Consulate and the office of Cuban Consul EUSEBIO

AZCUE. A person unknown to him was sitting at AZUE's desk.

A short time later, while ALVARADO was standing near the door

to the men's room at the Cuban Consulate, he noticed three

men conversing a few feet away from him.

One of them was a

tall, thin Negro with reddish hair; the second was a man whom

ALVARADO had seen previously holding a Canadian passport.in

the waiting room of the Cuban Consulate; and the third person,

according to ALVARADO, WaS LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

ALVARADO stated that a tall Cuban Joined the above

group momentarily and passed some United states currency to

the Negro.

The following conversation between the Negro and

OSWALD was overheard by ALVARADO:

Negro (in English): I want to kill the man.

OSWALD: You're not man enough. I can do it.

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Negro (in Spanish): I can't go with you. I have

a lot to do.

OSWALD: The people are waiting for me back there.

ALVARADO stated that the Negro then gave OSWALD

$6,500 in United States currency of large denominations,

saying':

"This isn't much." Of this sum, $1,500 was for extra

expenses. The Negro also gave OSWALD about 200 Mexican pesos.

In aister interview, ALVARADO stated that the

United States bank notes were in a small pack about one fourth

of an inch thick, bound with a paper band, which the Negro

broke before counting out $1,500 extra for expenses and $5,000

as "advance payment."

ALVARADO stated that OSWALD had carried a green

passport in his pocket, and he believed he saw OSALD wearing

a pistol in a shoulder

holster; but he was not sure of this

point. He stated that OSWALD had long shoes and a wrist watch

with a yellow metal band. According to ALVARADO OUT

appeared to be completely at home at the Consulate and to know

and to be known by Cuban Consulate personnel:

ALVARADO was arrested and interrogated by Mexican

authorities on November 28, 1963, and a copy of the interro

gation report by the Mexican authorities revealed the following:

At the outset ALVARADO's story generally resembled

that recorded above.

He repeated to the Mexican authorities

the details of the scene in which be saw the Negro, the

Canadian and the American conversing together, the delivery

of the money to the American by the Negro, and the conversation

he overheard.

ALVARADO advised the interviewing Mexican offictals

that upon seeing the photograph of OSWALD in the newspapers

following the assassination of President JOHN F. KENNEDY, he

recognized OSWALD as the American he had seen at the Cuban

Consulate.

An excerpt from ALVARADO®s statement to Mexican

authorities, as translated from Spanish, is as follows:

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spontaneously and after reconsidering he

desires to state that the imerican to whom he

referred in the body of his statement and whom

he saw the l8th of September of this year in the

Cabar Consulate had a certain resemblance, about

sixty per cent, to LEE HARVEY OSWALD (assassin

of the President of the United States);

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after the assassination of President KENNEDY the

witness took advantage of this fact in his favor

to exploit it, furnishing versions such as those

initially set

an energetic reaction from the political point of

view on the part of the United States of America

against the government of FIDEL CASTRO RUZ and

that he kad no motive other than the profound

hatred he feels for communism.

That all his life

the witness has dedicated himself to combating

communisn and be regrets at this moment not having

accomplished his objective in the sense of causing

a reaction on the part of the American Government

against FIDEL CASTRO."

Because of the fact that subsequent to making the

above-mentioned statement to Mexican authorities, ALVARADO

claimed that he had changed his statement because of fear,

he was interviewed at considerable length on December 5 and

6, 1963, In Mexico, D. F., by representatives of the United

States Government.

T-17 advised as follows:

After reiterating his story, ALVARADO was afforded

a polygraph examination on December bg 19b3. Juring the course

of the examination he was asked, "Is this the American you sar

in the Cuban

Consulate?"

At the time he was shown photographs

of OSWALD.

rach time he was asked this question, he definitely

responded, "Yes," but it was noted that the polygraph indicated

a "deception response" on these answers.

These responses and

those with respect to other questions led to the conclusion

that ALVARADO was a fabricator.

It was specifically pointed

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truthful in identifying photographs of OSWALD as being

of a person he saw in the Cuban Consulate, and he was asked

for his explanation thereof.

ALVARADO replied that he had full faith in the

polygraph and would not attempt to relute its results.

went on to say that the only explanation he could offer was

that he had seen an American in the Cuban Consulate on

September 18, 1963, who resembled OSWALD, and that upon

seeing the photograph of OSWALD in the newspaper, he built

up within himself, either consciously or subconsciously, a

complete belief that the person he had seen in the Cuban

On December 8, 1963, Mexican authorities deported

ALVARADO FrOM MeXICO, D. Fe, to Managua, Nicaragua®

MISCELLANEOUS INQUIRIES AND ALLEGATIONS

RELATING TO OSWALD

(A)

Allegation by SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON

Concerning OSWALD and SILVIA DURAN

According to the first confidential source abroad,

the White House at lashington; 1. Ce, had received a paper

entitled "Possible Psychological Motivations In the Assassi

nation of President KENNEDY" written by JOSE I, LASAGA, 2340

N. E. Ith Avenue, Apartment 4, Miami, Florida,

This speculative paper attempted to establish that

the motivation of OSWALD in the assassination of President

KENNEDY waS FIDEL CASTRO or a CASTRO agent and that OSWALD

was so motivated during his trip to Mexico between September

27 and October 2, 1963. The paper included the allegation

that OSWALD had

an extended interview with the Cuban Ambassador

to Mexico, whom he met at a restaurant on the outskirts of

Mexico, D. F., from where they departed together in the Cuban

Ambassador's automobile for a private conversation.

LASAGA had advised the White House that he received

the above report from ANGEL FERNANDEZ VARELA, an employee of

the Voice of Cuba in Miami, Florida, who received the intor-

mation from SALVADOR DIAZ VERSON, who reportedly was in

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