REPORT MENTIONING CUBAN MINISTER-COUNSELLOR STATEMENT ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Originator: CIA
From: LAUDER, GEORGE DC/LA/DO
To: SA/ADDO
Document date: 09/30/1977
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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INSPECTOR GENERAL

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30 SEP 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR: •

Benson Grayson

SA/ADDO

FROM

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

George V.

Lauder

Deputy Chief, Latin America Division

SLHORIZON-1 Report Mentioning Cuban

Minister Counsellor Statement

on the

Assassination of President Kennedy

: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,

such

among other things, that Cuban exiles

as FNU DIAZ LAN and others had been involved in the

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

further elaborate.

Latin America Division believes that the basis for

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

the New York Daily News

on 20 September 1977.

This article,

quoted Maritza LORENZ as

saying she, Orlando

BoscH, Frank SheRGIS, Pedro DiAl Lanz, two unnamed Cuban exile

brothers and Lee Harvey OSWALD formed

assassination squad

which

went to Dallas

to assassinate President Kennedy.

We know

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 CIA agent.

There is no official file on

Ms. LORENZ,

nor is there any

information indicating that she

was an agent or employee of this Agency.

We have asked Station Kingston to obtain more

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

We will prepare 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.

/s/ Botige I. Lauder

George V. Lauder

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

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