MF: ALLEGATION BY A SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT CONCERNING THE ROLE OF CUBAN EXILES IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, LATIN AMERICA DIVISION
To: OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Document date: 11/03/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMORANDUM TOR: Office of the Legislative Counsel

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SUBJECT

Raymond A. Warren

Chief, Latin America Division

Allegation by a Senior Cuban Diplomat.

Concerning the Role

of Cuban Exiles

in

the Assassination of President Kennedy

According to a fairly reliable source, a senior

Cuban diplomat stationed abroad made certain charges in

late. September 1977 concerning

the alleged role of Cuban

the assassination of. President John F. Kennedy.

This diplomat

made these allegations to his colleagues

course of an official meeting

in his embassy. The

diplomat

among other things

that Cuban

such as former Cuban

Air Force officer Di

Lan (fnu)

and others had been

involved in the

assassination of

President Kennedy.

The diplomat referred

in the

context of a security lecture

he claimed that counter-revolutionary activities by Cuban

exiles have increased in recent months:

He said that

recent information had arrived implicating Di a z in the

Kennedy assassination.

The diplomat did not mention any

other Cuban exiles by name or provide

any further details.

He did not identify the source of his information, although

our scurce had the impression that

tions were based on

a recent cable

from the Cuban Ministry

of Foreign Affairs.

2.

This division

has no other factual information

concerning the diplomat's

allegations.

We believe

that

the basis for the diplomat's statement was, probably, in

article which appeared in the New York

"Daily News"

on

20 September 1977.

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Sturgis,

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issassination squad which went to Dallas to assassinate

President Kennedy

lie. now. of.no

information in our

files t9

substantiate that allegation.

is a

former

chief of the Cuban Rebel

Air ForCe

He is not nor is there any record

has ever

been debriefed by us after he

teen an Agency asset?, eft Cuba.

that he

although he could have

4.

There have been various press articles in the

past alleging that

Lorenz

was a

CIA

agent.

She

is not an agent or employee of this Agency nor is there

any information indicating that she ever was an agent

or employee of this Agency.

5..

The above information may be passed in part or

in its entirety to the House Select Committee on Assas-

sinations.

The FBI has already been informed of the

significant details in this matter.

/s/ George V.. Lauder.

Raymond A. Warren

DDO/ LA/COG/CIOS/J

Arcw (1 Novenber 1977, X9194)

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