MEMO: MEETING WITH A SOURCE ON 27 DECEMBER 1963.
Originator: CIA
From: LAWRENCE BARKER
To: MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 01/06/1964
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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5 January 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM

8 Lawrence F. Barker

SUBJECT: Meeting with LITAMIL-9, 27 Doceaber 1963

I. A meeting with Ing was held In B's car fron 2000 until 2140 hours

27 Dacember.

DEODA

Importanco 1n the AMOD oparation. (Sce MEXI 7613 and NEXI 7625)

3. 19 was asked for sortied d6 / uranta statonents ro-

garding the visit of Lea Harvey Oswald to thü Cuban Consulate In Septembar..

Ho had no further informetion to cifer about inis but roported that silvia

had not ratarned to work at the Consulats since her release fros arrest the

socond time. This was reported to HQS. (Sos MEXI 7615)

4o B apologized for not häving buen ablo to find in tao States sons

o1l paints which I-9 needs. Sir different art supply dealers in Arizona and

Califorale were tried without rosults.

The paints will ba roquested fron

HQS• /

P.19L4

5. I-9) reported on the following additional topicas

a. I-9 had recedrod as of that date only one Christsar/New Tears

grating card fron a Mexican Government official.

In past years he received

Margo numbers of these cardo.. The one care fron the Maxican Sub-Director a

Cultural Relations. I-9) ascribes this to the rosentment caused among Mexican.

officialdes by the strong note receired fros Raul ROA, Cuban FOMIN,

to the dotention of Silvia Duran. Apparently word had boon passed to Maxican

aliiclals that they were to give the cubans the cold shoulds.

Do Roldollo REYES, a Moxlean citizen uno works in Cuba for the Cuban

Tuatro Folklorico, was recently in toni. Ho said that Fidel CASTRO had recently

remarked that Cuba should use its theatrical group to cam dollars abroad. REYEs

said that a M. PLANCHON and six other Parlian empresarlos connected with

Teatro de las Naciones In Paris would ba travalling to Cuba in the near futuro

to see what could be done about putting the Cuban show on the road.

Tha w9ll-knon Mexican cartoonist RIUS (true namo Eduardo DEL RIO)

who was scheduled to be a guest of the Cuban government at the Anniversary

celebration a 2 Jan In Havana, did not get a Cuban visa.

A cable came Into

to Embassy adrising of this and saying that RIus would be notified directly by

a separato lotter of the reasong for this refusal.

Sinca RIUS 10 an outstanding

propagandist for the Cornunist causo, I-?) could only conjocture that this

development was rolatad to the ROAk9Hatlay and, thenCuban Government's desire

we a a an egot in the et i so Bot further other o

Another cartoonist, who

Rogelio RODRIGUEZ

Embassy recalved she gifts iron someona

inside the Crech Embassy at Christmastine DU U L

woman

An Australian sewspapayan named Julian or Jullian

in town on

23 Decencor, staying at Room 404 of the Gran Hotel Isabel,

Isabel La

Catolica # 63. She was trying to get a visa to voii Cuba but was unsuccessim

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