REPORT MENTIONING CUBAN MINISTER-COUNSELLOR STATEMENT ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY.
Originator: CIA
From: LAUDER, GEORGE V. DC/LAD
To: SA/DDO
Document date: 09/29/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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LA/COG/235-77

NEMORANDIM TOR:

Benson Grayson

SA/ ADDO

THOM

SUBJECT

George V. Lauder

Deputy Chief, Latin America Division

SLHORIZON-1 Report Mentioning Cuban

Minister-Counsellor Statement on the

Assassination of President Kennedy

REFERENCE

:a. Kingston 22950 (IN 416072)

b. New York Daily News Article, dated

20 September 1977

1.

Reference: A ZRWAHOO intelligence report, mentioned

that the Minister Counsellor (MC\ of

the Cuban Embassy in

Kingston, Jamaica addressed the regular monthly meeting of the

Communist Party of Cuba

members assigned

to Jamaica on 24 Sep-

tember 1977.

The MC said,

among other things, that Cuban exiles

such as FNU DIAZ LAN

and

others

had been. involved in the

assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The MC did not

further elaborate.

2.

Latin America Division believes that the basis for

the MC's statement was, probably, an article which appeared in v

the New York Daily News on 20 September 1977.

This article,

which is attached, quoted Maritza LORENz as saying she, Orlando

BOSCH, Frank STURGIS, Pedro DIAZ Lanz, two unnamed Cuban exile

and Lee Harvey OSWALD formed

an assassination squad

went to Dallas to assassinate President Kennedy.

of no

information in Agency files to substantiate that state-

ment.

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3.

There have been various articles in the past alleging

that Ms. LORENZ was a ClA agent.

There is no official file on

Ms. LOReNz, nor is there any information indicating that

wals an agent of employee of this Agency.

ve have asked Station Kingston to obtain more

information on the MC's statement and source, if possible.

We will propare memoranda for the FBI, the Inspector General,

and the Office of the Legislative Counsel concerning this case

and include any additional information obtained by our Station

in Kingston.

The memorandum to the OLC will be for passage to

the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

George V. Lauder

• Attachment: a/s

DDO/C/ LA/COG/CIOS:HSpeed:js (1325) (29 Sept 77)

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- Addressee

- LA/COG/Chrono

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- IG Staff (Scott Breckinridge)

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