Agency: HSCA
Originator: HSCA
From: GENZMAN, ROBERT
To: BLAKEY, G. ROBERT
Document date: 07/31/1978
Document type: SUMMARY

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/1/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER:

HSCA

180-10075-10166

RECORD SERIES: NUMBERED FILES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 010136

Document Information

Released under the John

?. kennedy

Assassination Recorde

Collection Aet of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NM 54653 Date:

10-23-2017

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM:

GENZMAN, ROBERT

TO :

BLAKEY, G. ROBERT

TITLE:

DATE: 07/31/1978

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

DE BRUEYS, WARREN C.

POLITICAL AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

OSWALD, LEE, POST-RUSSIAN PERIOD

FBI, ADMINISTRATION

DOCUMENT TYPE: SUMMARY

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS : Consulted

CURRENT STATUS : Withhold

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/22/1993

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS: Box 187.

v9.1

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MEMORANDUM

SUMMARY OF DEPOSITION

TO :

FROM:

DATE:

RE:

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel

Robert Genzman

Staff Counsel

July 31, 1978

Summary of Deposition of Orest Pena

June 23, 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana

Pena was an FBI informant in New Orleans beginning in

1959 or 1960. (p. 5) He reported to FBI Special Agent

Warren C. de Brueys for a number of years, the exact number

of which he cannot remember. (pp. 6, 7)

He spoke to de Brueys

many, many times. (p. 9) He provided information which he

obtained in connection with his position as a bar owner in

New Orleans. (p. 6)

He was never paid for the information

he provided. (p. 7)

Pena worked in some capacity for another United States

government agency, which he refused to identify. (pp. 9, 10)

He refused to answer the question of whether he has had any

relationship with the CIA, even when shown the CIA release

letter labeled JFK Exhibit #94. (pp. 27, 28)

Pena never worked for Fidel Castro. (p. 6)

In regard to the allegation that Lee Harvey Oswald was

an FBI informant, Pena saw. Oswald at a restaurant on Decatur

and Iberville Streets in New Orleans in the company of "other

federal agents from the Customs House Building." (pp. 11, 12)

De Bruyes was among this group. (pp. 12, 17) Pena refused

to say whether he ever observed Oswald and de Brueys speaking

together. (pp. 12, 13) He believes the two knew each other

"very, very well." (p. 13)

Pena saw Oswald, de Brueys, and

other government agents leaving the restaurant and going

to the Customs House Building. (pp. 16, 17)

When Oswald was

"transferred to Dallas," de Brueys

was

"transferred to Dallas"

at the same time. (p. 13) Pena is "very, very, very sure"

that de Brueys was transferred to Dallas before the Kennedy

assassination. (p. 13)

Pena believes that Oswald was an-agent of the u.s.

government. (p. 18)

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Summary of Deposition of Orest Pena

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Pena contends that there is a connection between the

Kennedy assassination and Cuban training camps in New Orleans.

(pp. 14, 15, 28, 33)

Pena did not testify on all relevant issues before

the Warren Commission, because de Brueys had threatened

him before he was scheduled to testify, and because

Commission Counsel Wesley Liebeler did not cooperate. (pp. 18, 19)

Pena told a number of people, including Mark Lane

and Harold Weisberg, that Oswald was an FBI informant. (pp. 20, 21)

In 1975 Pena publicly alleged that Oswald was an FBI informant

on CBS television. (p. 18)

Oswald once entered Pena's. bar with two or three Spanish-

looking individuals and ordered lemonade. (pp. 23, 24, 25)

Pena saw Oswald handing out Fair Play for Cuba Committee

pamphlets

in New Orleans. (p. 22) He saw the fight between

Oswald and Bringuier. (p. 22)

Pena later posted bond for

Bringuier. (p. 23)

Pena has been told that he and Oswald each applied for

a passport in New Orleans on June 24, 1963. (p. 25) He does

not remember seeing Oswald at that time. (p. 25, 26)

He thinks

he would have remembered seeing Oswald if he and Oswald had

applied at the same time. (p. 26) He does not know why his

name was omitted from

i had includea tene

a State Department list (Warren Commission

Exhibit 952) which included the names of people who applied

or passports in New Orleans on June 24, 1963. p. 26) HE

thinks that his name might have been omitted purposely or

account of his informant status. (pp. 26, 27)

Pena does not

believe he traveled to Mexico in the Fall of 1963. (p. 27)

He never saw Oswald in Mexico..(p. 27) He never traveled

to Mexico or to any other countries on any intelligence missions.

(p: 27)

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MEMORANDUM

TO :

FROM:

DATE:

• RE :

G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel

Robert Genzman, Staff Counsel

July 31, 1978

Index of Orest Pena Testimony: June 23, 1978,

New Orleans

Balter Building

pp. 9, 21

Banister, Guy

p. 32

Batista, Fulgencio

Bringuier, Carlos

CBS

pp. 14, 15

pp. 16, 22, 23, 30

p. 18

CIA

pp. 14, 27,

Cabellero, Juan Ilario pp. 14, 15

Castro, Fidel

pp. 5, 6, 7

Cuban Revolutionary

Front

28

Cuban Training Camp

pp. 6, 9, 28

PP .

14, 16, 19, 20, 28, 33,

34

de Brueys, Warren C.

pp. 35, 6, 7,

9,

10, 11, 12,

13,

14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20,

28,

FBI

pp.

5,

16,

6,

26,

17,

28

7

18

8

19

9,

10, 11,

14,

21, 22,

23,

Fair Play for Cuba Com-

mittee

p.: 22

Ferrie, David

Garcia, Hector Jose

Garrison, Jim

Gaudet, William G.

Habana Bar

pp. 28, 29,

30, 31, 32

pp. 21, 33

p: 31

p. 33

pp. 23, 24

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International Trade Mart pp. 16, 32

Lane, Mark

p. 20

Liebeler, Wesley

pp. 18,

19

McHoward, Dave

p. 8

Maloche, Frank

Mexico

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Pedro the Greek

Pelaez, Commandante

Perez, Victor

Polygraph

Rogue, Mr.

Rodriquez, Ernesto

Shaw, Clay

Smith, David

Smith, Sergio Arcacha

State, Department of

Tambarella, John

Weisberg, Harold

p. 8

p.

27

pp. 11, 12, 13,

14,

17;

18,

15,

16,

22, 23,

24,

25,

26,

27, 29, 30, 32, 33

pp. 11, 12

p. 22

pp. 11, 17

pp. 10, 33, 34

p. 16

pp. 23, 24

pp. 31, 32

p. 16

pp.

6, 9,21,

28,

29, 30, 31,

32,

34

p. 26

pp. 8, 9

pp. 20, 25

br

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