RAYMOND BUENROSTRO CORTEZ
Originator: FBI
From: LEGAT, MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/19/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

2/23/201

Agency Information

AGENCY : SSCIA

RECORD NUMBER:

157-10003-10422

RECORD SERIES : MEMORANDUM

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM: LEGAT, MEXICO CITY

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE: RAYMOND BUENROSTRO CORTEZ

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/19/1964

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DOCUMENT TYPE:

CLASSIFICATION :

RESTRICTIONS :

CURRENT STATUS :

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS :

ASSASSINATION PLOT

CORTEZ, RAYMOND (RAMON)

CUBA - CHINA CONNECTION

CUBA - MEXICO

INTERNAL SECURITY

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

Redact

04/05/1994

box 335-5

Released under the John F

Kennedy Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992 144 USC

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SOTIONAL PORN NG. 1º

SIA CON, NEG: NO 1Y

UNLIED STATES GI ERNMENT

Memorandum

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Directcr, FBI (105-99401-3)

TO

DATE:

3/19/64

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SUBJECT:

RAYMOND BUENROSTRO CORTEZ

IS - CUBA - MEXICO

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN

DATE

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Beficial proceedings out

ENCLOSURES

your Commite and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express approval of the FBl .

Enclosed herewith are 14 copies:of a letterhead

memorandun dated and captioned as above.

REFERENCE

REVIEWED BY FBI/JFK TASK FORCE

2/18/94 doL

Legat, Mexico City letter

tol the Bureau dated

2/27/64.

RELEASE IN FULL

ADMINISTRATIVE

RELEASE IN PART

• TOTAL DENIAL

No dissemination of the information contained in

the enclosed letterhead memorandum has been made locally

to the United States Embassy, Mexico, D. F., inasmuch as

it is in possession of pertinent information concerning

this subject.

The Interview of J. JESUS RAMIREZ TAMAYO contained

in the enclosed letterhead memorandum was conducted by

SAS EDWIN O. JOHNSON and HENRY J. PRATT.

All other interviews

of individuals conducted in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico,

were conducted by SA JOHNSON.

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File Location

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MC 105-3791

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CLASSIFICATION

The enclosed letterhead memorandum has been

classified

(inasmuch as it contains information

from security informants operating in a foreign field, the

disclosure of whose identities could be inimical to the

national defense interests of the United States.

COPIES

Copies of instant communication and the enclosed

letterhead memorandum have been designated for the information

of the Dallas and Miami offices in view of their interest in

this matter.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Washington,

D. C.

March 19, 1964

RAYMOND BUENROSTRO CORTEZ

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

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On February 28, 1964, T-l, who has furnished

reliable information in

the past, stated that inquiry

in the vicinity of where the address Avenida Independencia

No. 14, Mexico, D. F., Mexico, should be located disclosed

no such building number as 14 and no information indicating

that the subject still maintained or had maintained an

office in that vicinity.

On March 5, 1964, T-2, who has furnished reliable

information in the past, stated that it was ascertained

that there is a Calzado

(shoe factory) located at Calle 56,

Sector Reforma 384, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, which is

named Calzado Clarice-Creaciones Unicas. According to T-2

this factory has been closed because of a strike since

T-2 stated that

the watchman at the factory was not acquainted with the

subject.

On March 5, 1964, J. JESUS RAMIREZ TAMAYO, Mexican

Federal Penitentiary, Guadalajara, stated that he is the

owner of the firm known as Calzado Stella.

He advised that

he owns 180 of the 200 shares outstanding in this firm and

that he is presently incarcerated in the Penitentiary pending

the outcome of a law suit instituted against him by the

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Oficina de Hacienda de Mexico (Mexican Office of the Public

Treasury) in relation to the management of the firm. RAMIREZ

expressed confidence that this suit will be resolved in his

lavor .

RAMIREZ stated that approximately one and one-half

years ago during the time that his ownership of the firm

was under litigation, the subject "illegally" purchased the

RAMIREZ claimed that he never met the subject and that

fter the subject bought the firm, he, the subject, change

he name of the establisment to Calzado Clarice-Creacione

Unicas.

RAMIREZ stated that he did not believe that the

subject ever maintained a residence in Guadalajara and he

had heard from an unrecalled source in the past that the

subject was a Texan who lived in Mexico City.

On March 6, 1964, JOSE DIAZ GARZA, PubliC Relations

officer,

sanco Industrial de Jalisco, Guadalajara, stated

that the subject had an account at that bank which was opened

in early 1952 in the name of "Calzado Clarice, Calle 56,

sector Reforma 334, Guadalajara. Those authorized to sign

checks for this account were the subject and one JOSE

MEDEROS HERNANDEZ.

According to DIAZ GARZA, the name of

MEDEROS HERNANDEZ was dropped from the account late in 1962.

DIAZ GARZA related that the subject came to Guadalajara

periods of time and was not well known

at the bank. He stated that the subject had the reputation

for being an unethical, unscrupulous businessman who was

noted for not paying his employees their full salaries.

DIAZ GARZA stated that the subject brought several

Cubans from Mexico, D. F., Mexico, to Guadalajara, to work

in the shoe factory and that MEDEROS HERNANDEZ acted as an

administrator with this firm. DIAZ GARZA stated that the

Cuban workers who arrived from Mexled City were ROMERIO

BARBOZA, JOSS NOJUEROL and DIMAS-FIGUEREDO. DIAZ GARZA

stated that he had heard nothing derogatory concerning the

above-mentioned individuals.

DIAZ GARZA informed that late in 1962, MEDEROS

HERNANDEZ was shot six times with a .22 revolver when a

man entered his room at the Genova Hotel in Guadalajara.

He stated that MEDEROS HERNANDEZ survived and that it was

his opinion that the investigation of the matter seemed to

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indicate that the subject had hired a gunman from Mexico,

D. F., to assassinate MEDEROS HERNANDEZ who had previously

clained the subject owed him money. DIAZ GARZA stated,

however, that the subject was never arrested.

DIAZ GARZA reported that the subject indicated

he had bank accounts in Texas, Canada and Mexico, D. F.,

Mexico, and had furnished an office address of Reforma 37,

Office

#404, Mexico, D. F.

He stated that the bank did not

have a home address for the subject.

On March ô, 1964, RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, a Cuban exile

who is employed by Mexalit, 15 de Septiembre and Ferrocarril

Streets, Guadalajara, stated that he was aware that there

had been some Cuban shoemakers in Guadalajara and that one

of them had been shot.

RODRIGUEZ stated he was not personally

acquainted with these individuals and knew nothing derogatory

concerning them.

On March 10, 1964, AGUSTIN NAVARRO, Chief of the

Secret Service of the Guadalajara Police Department,

Guadalajara, informed that he-recalled that a Cuban had been

shot at the

Genova Hotel in Guadalajara by another Cuban

but that he did not remember the name of the would-be

assassin. He stated that the file concerning the results

of the investigation would' be in the possession of the

Criminal Courts in Guadalajara.

He stated that the records

of that office contained no derogatory information concerning

the subject and no indication that an arrest order had ever

been issued for him in connection with the afore-mentioned

shooting.

Mr. GUADALUPS BAROCIO, Chies of Population

guadalajara, stated on March 12, 1964, that he recalled the

shooting involving Cuban aliens in 1952 and furnished the

name of the aggressor as JOSE MIGUEL VALDEZ and the victim

aS JOSE MEDEROS HERNANDEZ.

Criminal court at the Pentent stat & adatahe urt handled

the case and the

file number was 354.3/93855.

He stated

that he had received no information indicating that the

subject was involved in the afore-mentioned shooting.

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On March 12, 1964, the Secretary of the Fourth

Criminal Court, Guadalajara, stated that he could not make

the court records concerning the afore-mentioned sbooting

available for examination.

He recalled, however, that be

remembered the case well and that the subject had not been

involved in it as a defendant.

He added, however, that

the subject could have been called as a witness since he

had been

the employer of the victim.

On March 17, 1964, T-3, who has furnished reliable

information in the past, stated that no indication of

leftist or pro-Castro activity on the part of the subject

in Mexico had come to his attention.

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