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C. Silvia Duran

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When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated

on November 22, 1963,, the United States investigative

agencies--FBI, CIA, Secret Service, etc.--were asked to

investigate the assassination. When the Central Intelli-

gence Agency's Mexico City Station remembered that Lee

Harvey Oswald had visited Mexico City during late Septem-

ber and early October, it reviewed the electronic surveil-

lance files and found evidence of phone calls to the so-

viet Embassy made September 27th, September 28th, and

October Ist, that could have

been made by Oswald. 685/

Review of the electroic surveillance files also produced

telephone calls on September 27, 1963 between the Russian

Consul and Silvia Duran, a secretary at the cuban Consu-

late, where Oswald was discussed. 686/ In addition,

the Mexico City Station found a September 28, 1963 phone

call from Silvia Duran to the Soviet Consulate where Silvia

Duran stated that there was an American citizen at the

•Cuban Consulate who had previously visited the Soviet Con-

sulate. 687/ A final phone call was made on October 1, 1963

where the "alleged" Oswald identified himself was also

found. 688/

On November 23, 1963 the Mexico City Station deter-

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mined that it would request the Mexican government--

with whom it had a good relationship--to arrest Silvia

Duran

(as Silvia

Duran was a Mexican citizen, she did not

have diplomatic immunity) because she might shed some light

on the circumstances surrounding the assassination. 688a/

The Mexico City Station sent a note to the Gober-

nacion head, Luis Echevarria, with Silvia Duran's address,

her mother's address, her brother's address, her license

plate number, her home phone number, her place of work and

a request that she be arrested immediately. 689/ The Mexi-

co City Station also suggested that Duran he held incommuni-

cado until she could be questioned on the matter. 690/

The Mexico City Station did not receive prior au-

thorization from CIA Headquarters to request the arrest of

Silvia Duran by Mexican authorities. 691/ Headquarters

feared that a request to arrest Ms. Duran would jeopardize

the clandestine relationship between certain Mexican govern-

ment officials and the CIA if it were disclosed that Americans

were behind Duran's arrest. 672/ John Scelso, Chief of Western

Hemisphere/3, stationed at Langley Headquarters, telephoned

Winston Scott, the

Mexico City Chief of Station, and requested

that Silvia Duran not be arrested. 693/ Scott told Scelso that

he could not rescind the request, and that Headquarters should

already have Classificationle stating that Silvia Duran had

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wine, wish pet

been arrested. 694/ After Winston Scott's conversation

with John Scelso, Scott called Luis Echevarria and stated

that the Mexico City Station desired that all information

received from Duran be forwarded immediately to the Mexico

City Station, and that her arrest and statements not be

communicated to any leftist groups. 695/

On November 27, 1963, the Mexican government for-

warded to the Mexico City Station a copy of Silvia Duran's

ten-page signed statement. 696/ It said,

"Upon learning about the assassination

she and

her husband speculated that presi-

dent Kennedy might have been assassinated

for racial

reasons. When she became aware

that the assassin

was Lee Harvey Oswald, she

ascertained that it was the same man who

ap-

proximately two months prior had

been

to the

Cuban Consulate to solicit an intransit visa

to Russia.

Having

taken his name from the

special documentation he presented she knew

that he was married to a Russian woman and

belonged

to the

"Fair Play for Cuba Committee."

She checked the data in the Consulate archives

and became certain that it was the same indi-

vidual who was blonde, short, dressed unelegant-

ly and whose face

turned red when angry.

The

Consul had

denied

the visa because to obtain

an intransit visa from the Cuban government,

it was imperative that he previously obtain

visa from the Soviet Consulate.

Since obtain-

ing a visa from the soviets took four months

and Oswald's Mexican visa expired soon Oswald

was

advised: that he see the Soviet Consul, and

calling

the person in charge of that office.

The soviet official told her that they would

have to consult Moscow which would take four

months.

That afternoon, Oswald returned to the

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General bure

Cuban Consulate and Silvia Duran confirmed

that he could get a Cuban visa only after he

received a Russian visa.

She gave Oswald her name

and business phone number but never gave him her..,

address

because she had no reason to give it to

him.

The only aid she could give Oswald was advising

that he see the soviet Consul and calling the person

in charge of that office.

She knew that phoning the

Soviet Consulate was not

one of her duties and that

if she did so she did it only to help Oswald. She

gave Oswald her business phone number only because he

would have to call subsequently to check whether he

had obtained a visa.

He never called back."

Silvia Duran, released on November 24, 1963, was rearrestedl

November 27, 1963, when the Mexican government alleged that she

was attempting to leave Mexico for travel to Havana. 698/

According to the Mexican officials who detained Duran a second

time, there was no addition to her story. 699/

The Mexico City Station forwarded Duran's ten-page signed

statement to Headquarters on November 27, 1963. 700/ The

following day, Headquarters sent a clarification cable to the

Mexico City Station

seeking to insure that neither Silvia

Duran nor the cubans would have any basis for believing that

the Americans were behind her rearrest. The cable stated,

"We want the Mexican authorities to take the responsibility

for the whole affair." 701/

When

the

Central Intelligence Agency began to work

with the Warren Commission, Headquarters cabled the Mexico

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City Station

that its plan in passing information to the

Warren

Commission was to eliminate mention of telephone

taps in order to protect their continuing operations. 702/

Headquarters cabled that it would rely on Silvia Duran's

statements and on the Consular files which the Soviets

gave the State Department. 703/ Headquarters stressed

that exact, detailed information from LITAMIL-7 and

LITAMIL-9--penetration agents in the Cuban Embassy--on

what Silvia Duran and other officials had said about 0s-

wald's visit and his dealings would be valuable and usable

corroborative evidence. 704/

When the Central Intelligence Agency forwarded to

the Warren Commission a copy of Duran's signed statement.

It read

as follows:

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...she remembered.. (that Lee Harvey Oswald)

was the name of an American who had come to

the Cuban Consulate to obtain a visa to travel

to cuba in transit to Russia, the latter part

of september or the early part of October of

this year, and in support of his application

had shown

his passport, in which it was noted

that he had lived in

that country for a

period

of three years; his labor card

from the same

country written in the Russian language; and

letters in that same

language.

He had presented

evidence that he was

married to a Russian woman,

and also

that he was apparently the leader of

an organization in the city of New Orleans

claim-

ing that he should be accepted as a "friend" of

the Cuban Revolution.

Accordingly, the declarant,

complying with her duties, took down all of the

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information and completed the

application

appropriate

form; and the declarant,

ad-

mittedly exceeding her responsibilities,

informally telephoned the Russian Consulate,

with the intention of doing what she could

to facilitate issuance of

the Russian visa

to Lee Harvey Oswald.

However, they told

her that there would be a delay of about

four months in processing the case, which

annoyed the applicant since, according

to

his statement, he was in a great hurry to

obtain visas that would enable him to travel

to Russia, insisting on his right to do so

in view of his background and his loyalty

and his activities in behalf of the Cuban

movement.

The declarant was unable to re-

call accurately whether or.not the applicant

told her he was a member of the Communist

Party, but he did say that his wife***was

then in New York City, and would follow

him,*** (Senora Duran stated) that when Os-

wald understood that it was not possible to

give him a Cuban visa

without his first hav-

ing obtained the Russian

visa, *** he became

very excited or angry, and accordingly, the

affiant called Consul Ascue (sic),*** (who)

came out and began a heated disucssion in En-

that concluded by Ascue

telling him that

would not give he the vene and person

of his type was harming the Cuban Revolution

rather than helping it," it being understood

that in their conversation they were talking

about the Russian Socialist Revolution.and

not the Cuban.

Oswald

maintained that he had

two reasons

for requesting that his visa be

issued promptly, and they were: one, that his

tourist

permit in Mexico was about to expire;

and the other, that he had to get to Russia

as quickly as

possible.

Depsite her annoyance,

the decalarant gave Oswald a paper*** in which

she put down her name,

"Silvia Duran,"

and

the number of the telephone at the Consulate,

which is "11-28-47" and the visa application

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was processed anyway.

It was sent

to the

Ministry of (Foreign) Relations of

Cuba; from

which a routine reply was received

some fifteen

to thirty days later, approving the visa, but on

the condition that the Russian visa be obtained

first, although she does not recall whether or

not Oswald later telephoned her at the Consulate

number that she gave him. 705/

The Central Intelligence Agency had relied on Duran's

statements but had deleted Duran's description of Oswald as

blonde and

short. 706/ It had also excised Duran's statement--

"The only aid she could give Oswald was advising that he see

the soviet Consul, and calling the person in charge of that

office" which alluded to Oswald asking for some type of aid at

the Cuban Consulate. 707/ In addition, Ms. Duran's strong state-

ment "He never called her back" 707a/ was changed to "she does

not recall whether or not Oswald later telephoned her at the

Consulate number that she have him. 707b/ Had the statements

been

included, the Warren Commission's conclusions would not have

seemed as strong.

The Warren Commission staff was not completely satis-

fied with Ms. Duran's ten page signed statement obtained by

the Mexican authorities. W. David Slawson wrote:

We then discussed... the problem of (inter-

viewing) Silvia Duran.

We pointed out that

our only interest in witnesses

(in Mexico)

other than Duran was

to get their formal testi-

mony for authentication purposes...This was

not true of Duran, however, because she had

been interviewed

only by the Mexican police

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and we considered that interview inadequate.

(I should point out that we do not consider

it totally inadequate, however.

It is only

on details such as Oswald's physical

appearance, side comments

or remarks he

may have made, etc., that we would like to

interrogate Mrs. Duran further.

On the

essential point of whether or not his con-

tacts with the Embassy consisted of anything

other than an attempt to travel to Cuba,

Silvia Duran's knowledge has probably been

exhausted.) 708/

The Warren Commission staff's attempts to inter-

view Ms. Duran never succeeded. 709/ Ms. Duran was not

interviewed by Americans until 1976, when two reporters

from the Washington Post

interviewed her. 710/ On

June 6, 1978, representatives of the House Select Committee

ron

Assassinations interviewed Ms. Duran in Mexico City.

VI. Information not available at the time of the Warren

Commission investigation

A. Silvia Tirado (nee Duran)

1. House Select Committee on Assassinations 6/6/78

Interview of Silvia Tirado

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Ms. Tirado (Silvia divorced Horatio Duran in 1968)

was never questioned by American officials in 1963. Thus,

the Committee established contact with the Mexican govern-

ment and requested that the Mexican government make

Silvia Tirado available for an interview. 71l/ The Mexican

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government complied on 6/6/78. Ms. Tirado told the House

Select Committee on Assassinations the following:

Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate three

times on September 27, 1963, not twice as the Warren Com-

mission previously reported. 712/ Oswald first visited

the Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m., requesting

an intransit visa

to Cuba with Russia as the final destina-

tion. 713/ He showed her some documents, then

left to

obtain photographs needed for his application. 714/

Oswald returned at approximately 1:00 p.m. with

four photographs. 715/ Ms. Tirado typed the application

in duplicate, stapled a picture on top of each and had Os-

wald sign each in her presence. 116/ As identification,

Oswald showed her documents he had brought: his Russian

labor card, marriage certificate with the name of his

Russian wife, his American Communist Party membership card

and his "Fair Play for Cuba" membership card. 717/

Ms. Tirado found Lee Harvey Oswald's behavior suspi-

cious because normally a Communist traveled only with his

passport as belonging to the Communist Party was illegal

in Mexico in 1963. 718/

There was a procedure whereby the American Communist

Party would arrange visa matters for their members with the

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Cuban Communist Party. 719/ The American would then

come to Mexico, visit the Cuban Consulate, and receive

his visa immediately. 710/ When Tirado asked Oswald why

he did not have the American Communist Party arrange his

trip

to Cuba, he stated that he had not had the time. 121/

After explaining to Oswald that he had to acquire

a Russian visa before he could

receive a Cuban visa, Tirado

jotted her name and business phone number on a piece of

paper and gave it to Oswald who then left to get his Rus-

sian visa. 722/

Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate between

5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., which was after normal working

hours, 10:00 to 2:00 p.m. 723/ The guard called Tirado,

stating that someone who did not speak Spanish was at the

gate inquiring about a visa. 724/ As routine procedure,

she asked the guard to escort the individual to her office. 725/

Oswald told her that he had acquired a Russian visa. 726/

Since he did not produce it when asked, she called the

Russian Consulate. 721/ The Consul told Duran that Oswald

had been to the Consulate requesting a visa and had been

told that the reply would take approximately four months. 128/

When she relayed the message to Oswald, he got very excited,

insisting that as a person who had been in jail because

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of the cuban Revolution he should receive a visa. 129/

Oswald stated that he could not wait that long because

his

Mexican visa expired in three days. 730/ At this

point, Ms. Tirado informed Consul Eusebio Azcue of the

situation. 731/ Azcue had been in his private office

which he shared with his upcoming replacement, Alfredo

Mirabal. 732/ Azcue politely explained the requisites

for an intransit visa to Oswald. 733/ When he noticed

that Oswald was a stubborn man he told Oswald that he

was obviously not a friend of the Cuban revolution be-

cause he would otherwise understand that Cuba had to be

extremely careful with the people it allowed in the coun

try. 134/ Azcue and Oswald yelled at each other. 735/

Then Azcue went to the door, opened it and asked Oswald

to leave. 736/ Oswald did not revisit or telephone the

Consulate. 737/ Ms. Tirado described Lee Harvey Oswald

as approximately five feet six, with sparse blonde hair,

weighing about 125 Is pounds. 738/

2. CIA information not available at the time of

the Warren Commission investigation

a. LIRING/3 allegation

In 1967 a report that Silvia Duran had had intimate

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of the Central Intelligene Agency's Mexico City Station. 139/

The source, LIRING/3, stated that he had recently re-

ceived a call from Silvia Duran. 140/ A telephone tap

on LIRING/3's telephone confirmed that Silvia Duran had

called LIRING. 741/ LIRING/3 reported that he had visited

Silvia to renew acquaintancees. 142/ During the visit,

Duran told LIRING/3 that she had met Lee Harvey Oswald

at the Cuban Consulate when

he applied for a visa and

had dated him on

several occasions. 143/ Duran admitted

that she had had intimate relations with Oswald, but in-

sisted that she had no idea of his plans. 744/ In addi-

tion, Duran told LIRING/3 that when the news of the as-

sassination became public knowledge, the Mexican govern-

ment arrested her and during the interrogation beat her

until she admitted that she had had an affair with Lee

Harvey Oswald. 745/ Rowton 746/ counseled LIRING/ 3

against any further contact with Duran because the Cubans

or the Mexican

police might become suspicious of him. 747/

There is no indication in Rowton's report as to why con-

tact with Silvia would make the cubans suspicious.

The CIA Mexico City Station reported this informa-

tion to Headquarters:

First, that Silvia Duran had sexual intercourse

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with Lee Harvey Oswald on several occasions

when

the latter was in Mexico is probably

new, but adds little to the Oswald case.

Second, the Mexican police did not report

the extent of the Duran-Oswald relationship

to this Station. 749/

In the chronology of the Mexico City investigation

of Oswald

1, Raymond Rocca

notes: "Why didn't Mexico

police give us all info?" 750/ This was not the first

report of such a relationship between Oswald and Duran.

Elena Garro had reported the same information to Charles

Thomas in 1965. 751/

That the Mexican

government did not disclose all

the information in

its possession to American authorities

raises one of three possibilities:

1) the Mexican government did not want to disclose

that one of its citizens had had intimate rela-

tions with the assassin of John Kennedy; or

2) Silvia Duran was a Mexican penetration agent

in the Cuban Consulate and the Mexican govern-

ment was protecting its informant by minimizing

her relationship with Oswald; or

3) they forgot, i.e., a pure and simple mistake.

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b. The possibility that Silvia Duran was an

agent for either American, Mexican or Cuban

Intelligence

since the publication of the Warren Commission

Report in

September 1964, critics have written about the

possibility that Silvia Duran was an intelligence agent

for either the Americans, Mexicans or Cubans.

1) Was Silvia Duran an agent, asset or source

for Mexican or American intelligence?

In an effort to resolve this question, the House

Select Committee on Assassinations reviewed the United

States investigative agencies' files on Silvia Duran. 752/

The Committee found no evidence in this file review that

Silvia Duran was either an American or Mexican intelli-

gence agent.

In addition, the Committee has interviewed most

of the Mexico City Station employees about the possibility.

Only David Phillips, Chief of Covert Action and the Cuban

Section in the Mexico City Station in 1963, a position

which made him very knowledgeable, considered that Duran

was possibly an agent or source. Mr. Phillips stated that

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"at one time the agency pitched 753/ almost everyone

at the Cuban Embassy." 754/ Mr. Phillips stated that

he had first heard Duran's name from the telephone

intercept transcripts. 755/ But Mr. Phillips asserted

that the CIA had no interest in Ms. Duran because "she

wasn't friendly with anyone." 756/ Mr. Phillips had

previously mentioned the CIA Mexico City Station's in-

terest in recruiting a former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico

named Lechuga. 757/ Mr. Phillips was shown a memorandum

written by W. David Slawson of the Warren Commission staff

regarding a trip to Mexico by Warren Commission staff

members which said:

Mr. Scott's (Chief of the CIA Station in Mexi-

CO

City) narrative disclosed that the CIA's

action immediately after the assassination con-

sisted basically

of alerting all its confiden-

tial sources of information

throughout Mexico

to immediately channel all information into

their headquarters, and of compiling as com-

plete dossiers as possible on Oswald and every-

one else throughout Mexico who at that time

the CIA knew had had some contact with Oswald...

This meant especially Silvia Duran, who because

she had previously been having an affair with

Lechuga, the former Cuban Ambassador to Mexico

and presently the Cuban representative at the

United Nations, had previously been of substan-

tial interest to the CIA... 758/

Mr. Phillips was surprised by this and stated

that "No one let me in on this operation." 759/ But.

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1. 7102

Mr. Phillips added that he doubted that Duran would

have been pitched because the Station could not identify

any of her weaknesses. The Committee staff members then

told Mr. Phillips about the reporting on file concerning

Ms. Duran from one of the Station's penetration agents,

LITAMIL/9, at the Cuban Embassy. At one point LITAMIL/9

had reported to his case officer that all that would

have to be done to recruit Ms. Duran was to get a blonde,

blue-eyed American

in bed with her. 761/ With this, Mr.

Phillips said that it did indeed sound as if the station

had targeted Ms. Duran for recruitment, that the Station's

interest had been substantial, and that the weaknesses

and

means had been

identified. 762/ Mr. Phillips

pointed out, however, that because Duran had been targeted

did not necessarily mean that she had been pitched. 163/

In addition, he stated that he had never heard that Duran

had been pitched. 764/

Mr. Phillips did state that he would expect that

Ms. Duran's file at the CIA would be "very thick" because

of all the telephone intercepts that concerned her and

the substantial interest that the Station had in her. 765/

He stated that much of the material in her file should

predate the assassination. 766/ Mr. Phillips stated that

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mortif a!

he would be very surprised if Ms. Duran's 201 file was

small and contained only a few pre-assassination docu-

ments. 767/ This is in fact the case of the Headquarters

201 file. 768/ This Committee has asked the CIA to make

Ms. Duran's Mexican "p" 769/ (personality) file available

for review. The CIA informed the Committee that there

was no "p" file available on Ms. Duran. 770/

Another CIA employee, Dan Neiscuir, who worked on

an "Oswald Task Force" in late September or early October

of 1975 dealing with Freedom of Information Act law suits

brought against the Agency concerning the files on Lee

Harvey Oswald, stated that he believed that Ms. Duran may

have been a source of information for either the CIA or

the Mexicans. 771/ Mr. Neiscuir could not recall why he

specifically had this recollection, but thought that it

was due to something he had seen in Oswald's file. 772/

He said that it may have been the Agency's attempts to

protect Ms. Duran after the assassination and the heavy

cable traffic that those attempts generated that led him

to his inference that she was a source of information

for either the Agency or the Mexicans. 173/

Despite LIRING/3's case officer's asking LIRING/3

not to recontact Ms. Duran, Mr.

Phillips'

statements, and

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Mr. Neiscuir's hazy recollections, the Committee cannot

definitely resolve whether Silvia Duran was a Mexican or

American intelligence agent or source.

(2) was Silvia Duran a Cuban intelligence agent?

In an effort to resolve this question, the ASCA

reviewed the United States investigative agencies' files

on Silvia Duran. 774/ The Committee found no evidence in

the files that would indicate that Ms. Duran was associated

with Cuban intelligence.

In addition, the HSCA interviewed most of the Mexi-

co City station employees about the possibility that Duran

worked for Cuban intelligence. Only Barney Hidalgo, a

CIA officer who travelled to Mexico City in 1963, considered

the possibility to be likely. 775/ Mr. Hidalgo, professing

not to remember all the details, stated that he thought

that Duran was a Cuban intelligence agent. 176/ Hidalgo

said:

At the time when this contact told me,of

Silvia

Duran I tied

the two together,

yes,

sir. I don't know, how at that time it

was obvious to me as an intelligence agent

that there was some connection there but

it was of no interest whatsoever to me,

I do remember that when I next saw this

contact of mine I mentioned the fact to

him

and let him

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got air

wanted to. 777/

Mr. Hidalgo further stated that he never resolved

the issue. 178/

With no corroborating evidence for Mr. Hidalgo's

memory, the Committee must conclude that Silvia Duran

was probably never employed by Cuban Intelligence.

B. The Cubans

1. Eusebio Azcue Lopez

When Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban

Consulate, Eusebio Azcue Lopez, a Cuban citizen, was the

Cuban Consul. 179/ Because he had diplomatic immunity,

the Cuban government had never been asked to make him

available for questioning. 780/ The Committee, in an ef-

fort to investigate Oswald's contact with representatives

of the Cuban government, asked the Cuban government to

make Eusebio Azcue available for Committee and staff inter-

views. 781/ The Cuban government complied with the commit-

tee's request on April 1, 1978. 7821

During that interview, Mr. Azcue alleged that the

man Jack Ruby shot in the Dallas Police Station was not

the same individual who had visited the Cuban Consulate

in 1963.

783/

In addition, Mr. Azcue stated

I that Alfredo

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Mirabal, who in September 1963, had recently arrived

from Cuba to assume the consul's duties, had also been

present during Oswald's visit. 784/ During a second

trip to Cuba, the Committee interviewed Alfredo Mirabal. 785/

Subsequent to this second trip to Havana, the Committee

asked the cuban government to make Eusebio Azcue and

Alfredo Mirabal available for the public hearings on Sep-

tember 18, 1978. 786/ The Cuban government complied with

the Committee's request.

Eusebio Azcue Lopez told the House Select Committee

on Assassinations

at a public hearing on 9/18/78 the

following:

An individual who gave the name Lee Harvey Oswald

visited the Cuban Consulate on three occasions in late

September 787/ and early October 1963. 788/ The indivi-

dual first visited the Cuban Consulate during working

hours, requesting an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia

as the final destination. 789/ The man showed the secre-

tary, Silvia Duran, some documents 789a/ which he believed

would be sufficient to obtain a visa. 789b/ When the

secretary would not grant him a visa, the man asked Azcue

to see whether upon examination of the documents he could

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grant him a visa. 789c/ Azcue answered negatively:

789 d/

The individual then left to obtain photographs needed

for his application. 189e/

The man probably returned on September 27, 1963

789 f/

with the photographs and completed the applications

in Ms. Duran's presence. 789g/

As the amount of time re-

quired to process this document could have taken as long

as twenty days or the response could have been negative,

Azcue told the man that he could grant him an intransit

visa to cuba, without consulting his government, if he

had a Russian visa. 789h/ The individual then left to

attempt to obtain his Russian visa. 7891/

After the man left the Cuban Consulate, Azcue re-

ceived a telephone call 789j/ from the Soviet Consulte. 790/

The Soviet Consul explained that the man's documents

were legitimate, but that the Soviet Consulate could not

issue a visa until it received authorization from Moscow. 791/

Emphasizing that the Cuban Consulate never re-

ceived visitors after working hours 792/ Mr. Azcue opined

that the individual probably returned to the Consulate

on September 28, 1963. 793/ When Azcue explained to

Oswald that he could not grant him a visa, the man made

statements directed against Cuba and called Cuba a

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bureaucracy. 194/ At that point, Azcue became upset and

asked the individual to leave the Consulate. 795/ Oswald

did not revisit the Consulate. 796/

Mr. Azcue described the man who visited the consu-

late as follows: a white male, between 5'6" and 5'7",

over 30 years of age, very thin long face, with straight

eyebrows and a cold look in his eyes. 797/ Azcue alleged

that he would never have identified Lee Harvey Oswald as

the man who visited the Cuban Consulate in 1963.

2. Alfredo Mirabal Diaz

Alfredo Mirabal Diaz told the House Select Committee

on Assassinations, at a public hearing on 9/18/78, 797A/

the!following:

Lee Harvey Oswald, seeking a visa, visited the

Cuban Consulate twice 798/ in September 1963. 799/ Since

Mirabal could not speak English though he was the new con-

sul, ex-Consul Azcue handled the matter. 800/ On both

occasions there were such loud arguments between Oswald

and Azcue that Mirabal thought that the man's visit to

the Consulate was a case of provocation. 801/

Though

Mirabal caught only glimpses of the man

he opined that the person whose picture appears on Lee

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Oswald who visited the Consulate. 802/ Mirabel was about

4 meters away from Oswald each time he caught glimpses of

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him. 802a/ Oswald was at the Consulate between 15 and 20

minutes on each visit. 802b/

C. Elena Garro de Paz

On October 5, 1964, eleven days after the publication

of the Warren Commission Report, Elena Garro de Paz' story

alleging Lee Harvey Oswald's presence at a party in Mexico

City attended by Cuban government personnel came to the attention

of the Central Intelligence Agency. 803/

1. Elena's

story as reported October 5, 1964

Elena Garro de Paz 804/ and Deba Garro de Guerrero

Galvan, first cousins of Horatio, Ruben and Lydia Duran,

were invited to a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran

in the middle of the week in the fall of 1963. 805/ Lee

Harvey Oswald was alleged to have been at this party in

the company of "two other beatnik-looking boys." 806/

The Americans

remained together the entire evening and

did not dance. 807/ When Elena tried to speak with the

Americans, she was "shifted" to another room by one of

her cousins. 808/ The memo does not state whether Elena

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to the Americans. One of Elena's cousins told her at

the time that (he or she did not know who the Americans

were except that silvia Duran (an employee of the Cuban

Embassy and the wife of Horatio Duran), had brought

them to the party. 809/

The day after the party, Elena and Deba saw the

three Americans on the Insurgentes, a main avenue in

Mexico City. 810/ The Garros claimed that they had recog-

nized Oswald's photograph when it was published after

the

assassination. 811/ Silvia Duran's arrest "under-

lined the Garros' certainty" that the man had been Lee

Harvey Oswald. 812/

The source of the memo was a witting 813/ Central

Intelligence Agency asset known by the cryptonym LICOOKIE/1

whom the Committee identified as June Cobb Sharp while

reviewing the LICOOKIE file. According to Elena, Ms.

Cobb was sent to her house shortly after the assassination

for a few days, by a mutual friend, a Costa Rican writer

named Eunice Odio. 814/ Ms. Garro asserted that while

at her house, Ms. Cobb expressed interest in the Kennedy

assassination. 815/ One night, Elena's sister Deba, who

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was visiting, got drunk and told the whole story. 816/

claiming to

be a CIA agent, Cobb suggested that Elena and

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Deba go to Texas to tell their story. 817/ Elena stated

that when Cobb's suggestion was rejected, Cobb stated

that she would arrange a meeting with the CIA Station

Chief. 818/ The meeting did not occur because Ms. Cobb

was asked to leave the Garro house evidently because

she kicked Elena's cat. 819/ A notation on the memo says

that LICOOKIE/l never regained contact with Elena Garro

de Paz. 820/

The LICOOKIE memo was not inserted in either the

Elena Garro or Lee Harvey Oswald "p" 821/ (personality)

file but in a local leftist and Cuban project file. The

Committee learned about the memo from Wx-7241, a chrono-

logical history of the Oswald case prepared by Raymond

Rocca for the CIA in 1967. The memo was found in Decem-

ber, 1965 by Stanley Watson. A marginal notation on

Wx7241 says, "Why was this not sent to Headquarters?" 823/

The Committee has been able to determine that the memo

was forwarded to Headquarters shortly thereafter.

2. October 12, 1964 CIA Memo for the Record

On October 12, 1964 the CIA Mexico City Station's

Chief of Covert Action, Jim Flannery, wrote a memo for

the record reporting that Elena Garro de Paz had told

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her story to Eunice Odio. 824/

The Committee has not been able to determine if

Elena Garro told Ms. Odio the story personally or if

Ms. Cobb related the story to Ms. Odio who relayed it to

"Tichborn." 825/

The story is not as detailed as the 10/5/64 ver-

sion. There is no mention of Deba Garro Guerrero Galvan.

The story, perhaps because it is third hand, differs

from the previous story in two areas: It states that

the party was at the Cuban Embassy, as opposed to Ruben

Duran's; and that Elena talked to a Cuban Embassy offi-

cial instead of her cousins about the three Americans.

Attached to the memo was a note from Flannery to

the Chief of Station, Winston Scott, which read, "Do you

want me to send the gist of this to Headquarters?" Scott

then noted that the memo should be filed. 826/ The file

indications show that the memo went into the Oswald "p"

file

and the Elena Garro "p" file. 827/

3. November 24, 1964 CIA Informant Report

On November 24, 1964 a Central Intelligence Agency

agent 828/

reported information 829/ derived from an asset,

"LICHANT/1." 830/ The agent asserted that June Cobb was

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an "American Communist" who rented a room from Elena

Garro. 831/

In

addition, the informant claimed that

Elena had also told her story to an American official

at the Embassy, who claimed to represent the Warren Com-

mission. 832/ The Chief of Station noted that he had

asked LICHANT/l to pursue the story 833/ but there is

no indication that the Chief of Station followed through

with the request. 834/

4. November 24, 1964 Elena Garro meeting with

Mexico City Legal Attache officers

Elena and her daughter reported their story to the

Mexico City Legal Attache on November 24, 1964. 835/

(The Legal. Attache in 1964 was Clark Anderson.) They

recounted the same story previously given to June Cobb

Sharp in

October 1964. 836/ Elena gave the date of the

party as September 30, October 1 or October 2, 1963. 8371

The agent who wrote the report 838/ noted that Lee Harvey

Oswald could not have been identical with the American 839/

allegedly observed by Mrs. Paz at the party if this party

were

held on the evening of October 1 or October 2, 1963.

840/

Elena was questioned regarding the identity of

other persons attending the party at the Ruben Duran home

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who might have been in a position to observe the three

Americans. 841/

Elena stated that in the course of

the party her daughter met a young man named "Alejandro"

at the party and danced with him. 842/ He was apparently

quite

smitten with the daughter and tried to call her

on several occasions after the party. 843/ The daughter

did not take the calls and as a result "Alejandro" wrote

several letters to the daughter. 844/. Ms. Garro exhibited

two of the letters, as well as a business card which

identified the young man as Ario Alejandro Lavagnini

Stenius. 845/

The letter which Ms. Garro said was the first

written by the young man to her daughter bore the date

September 1, 1963 and the Mexico City Post Office post-

mark dated September 2, 1963. 846/ When this was pointed

out to Ms. Garro she commented that the communists pro-

bably had facilities for falsifying postmarks. 847/

To investigate Ms. Garro's

story further, repre-

sentatives from. the Legal Attache's office interviewed

Ario Alejandro Lavagnini Stenius on November 27, 1964. 848/

Lavagnini recalled that there were approximately thirty

people at Ruben Duran's party, few of whom he knew. 849/

He recalled having met a Mexican girl who had recently

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returned from living in France. 850/ He was unable to

fix the date of the party but felt it was probably early

in September because of a heavy rain which occurred as they

were leaving the party about 2:00 a.m. 851/

Lavagnini said that no Americans were present at

this party. 852/ He was familiar with the physical de-

scription of Lee Harvey Oswald because of publicity fol-

lowing the assassination of President Kennedy, but other-

wise had no knowledge of him and had never seen

him except

for news photographs following the assassination. 853/

Lavagnini

was the only person interviewed by

the Legal Attache representatives who attended parties at

the Duran house in the September-October time frame.

There is no indication in the FBI document that

this information was given to the Central Intelligence

Agency's Mexico City Station. 854/

5. Charles Thomas' first meeting with Elena Garro

where Lee Harvey Oswald is discussed

On 12/10/65, Charles Thomas, a political officer

at the American Embassy, wrote a memorandum about a con-

versation with

Elena Garro de Paz. 855/ The meeting

with Elend had been about other matter abutshe men-

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tioned knowing Oswald. 857/ Thomas noted that she was

reluctant to talk but did. 858/

Elena's story reported here is the same as that

given in the LICOOKIE memo dated 10/5/64, but with more

details. She said that General Jose Jesus Clark Flores

(a friend of Ruben Duran's), Silvia Duran, Eusebio Azcue,

Emilio Carballido la pro-Communist writer-friend of the

Durans), and a Latin American Negro man with red hair

(unidentified) were at the party. 859/ A marginal com-

ment by this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena know

about a red-haired Negro?" 860/ Elena also told Thomas

that she had later learned that "Silvia Duran had been

Oswald's mistress while he was there." 861/ A note by

this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How did Elena Garro know

about Silvia being the mistress of Oswald? This is 1965."

862/ The Mexico City Station did not hear about the

Oswald-Duran "affair" until July 1967 when a CIA asset,

LIRING/3, reported

it. 863/

Elena told Thomas that she and her daughter had

gone to the Cuban Embassy on November 23, 1963 and shouted

"Assassins"

and other insults at the Embassy employees. 864/

According to Elena, that

same day, a friend, Manuel Cal-

villo, whom

the Garros though

be

the

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Gobernacion, took her and her daughter to a small hotel

in the center of Mexico City. 865/ Calvillo kept Elena

Garro and her daughter there for eight days under the pre-

text that they were in danger of being harmed physically

by Communists. 866/ Elena claimed she told Calvillo

her story and that she wanted to tell it to the American

authorities at the U.S. Embassy 867/ but that Calvillo

dissuaded her by telling her that the American Embassy

was full of Communist spies. 868/ Elena said that some

of the other people who had been at the party were taken

to Veracruz where they were "protected" by Governor

Lopez Arias. 869/ She said that Ruben Duran, reportedly

"protected" by General Clark Flores, was very prosperous

and was driving a big car. 870/ Elena also claimed

that Ruben Duran told her months after the assassination

that he was not really a Communist and that killing Ken-

nedy had been a mistake. 871/ Ruben Duran claimed he

had no reason

to tell Elena that killing Kennedy had been

a mistake since he had no involvement. 872/

Charles Thomas circulated a copy of his memorandum

concerning Elena's allegations in the American Embassy

including the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico City

Station to aid them in their investigation of the John

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F. Kennedy assassination. 873/ The COS wrote a note on

the

memo: "What an imagination she has!?! Should we

send to Headquarters?" 874/ The Officer replied, on

the memo, "Suggest sending. There have been stories

around town about all this, and Thomas is not the only

person she has talked to...If memory serves me, didn't

LICOOKIE refer to Oswald and the local leftists and Cu-

bans

in one of her squibs?" 875/

The Mexico City Station cabled the information in

Thomas' 12/10/65 memorandum of conversation to CIA Head-

quarters. 876/ The cable reported that Elena's story

would be checked with LICHANT/l, against the production

from the Cuban surveillance operation "and other

sources." 877/ Winston Scott wrote, next to the routing

indications on the cable, "Please ask Charles Thomas if

he'11 'follow up.' Get questions from Ann G. 878/

Please let's discuss. Thanks." 879/

After the

December 10 memorandum of conversation,

Winston Scott 880/ and Nathan Ferris 881/ called Charles

Thomas for a meeting. 882/ They asked him to get a more

detailed account of Ms. Garro's story. 883/ At this

meeting, Winston Scott made it clear that the FBI had

full responsibility for any further investigation in the

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Oswald case. 884/

6. Charles Thomas' Meeting with Elena Garro on

December 25, 1965

Thomas met with Elena again on December 25, 1965.

On that date, he wrote a memorandum of conversation which

provided a much more detailed restatement of Ms. Garro's

alleged encounter with Lee Harvey Oswald. 885/

Elena admitted that she had spoken to two men at

the Embassy, "presumably from the Legal Attache's Of-

fice." 886/ Elena said that she did not tell them

the complete story because "the Embassy officers did not

give much credence to anything she and Elenita said." 887/

She stated that the party had been at Ruben Duran's

home. 888/ She was unclear about the date of the

party, 889/ She thought it had been a few days before

the Soviet Astronaut, Gagarin, Visited Mexico; she thought

that this would put the party around September 2 or 3,

1963. 890/ She believed that the party was on a Monday

or Tuesday because it was an odd night for a party. 891/

Elena could not check her calendar to refresh her memory

at the time of this interview because the calendar was

in a desk that had been

stored away. 892/

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During the conversation, Elena described Oswald

and his companions. 893/ The man who she thought was Os-

wald wore a black sweater. 894/ She said he was quiet

"and

stared a lot at the floor." 895/ One of his com-

panions "was very tall and slender and had long blond

hair and a rather long protruding chin." 896/ The other

companion was also tall, with short, light brown hair

and no distinguishing characteristics. 897/ The three

Americans did not dance or mix with the other guests. 898/

Elena saw

the same three men on the street the next

day. 899/

Elena was certain that Eusebio Azcue, Horacio

Duran, Silvia Duran, Lydia Duran, Deba Guerrero, General

Clark Flores and his mistress, a doctor from Dalinde Hos-

pital, a young American couple who were honeymooning in

Mexico, and several other people were at the party. 900/

She said that Ricardo Guerra, whom she claimed converted

Horatio Duran

to Communism, and his wife, Rosario Castel-

lanos, were supposed to be at the party but did not at-

tend. 901/

Elena alleged that the red-haired man and Emilio

Carballido were not at the party that Oswald attended

but at another party where Carballido and Azcue got into

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a heated argument about President Kennedy. 902/ "They

came to the conclusion that the only solution was to

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" 904/ Elena was not clear on whether this party

was before or after the party where she met Oswald. 905/

Eusebio Azcue stated that this conversation never

occurred. 906/

Elena

reitereated that the incident at the Cuban

Embassy, where she and her daughter shouted "assassins,"

etc., at the Embassy employees, occurred on November 23

at or about 3:00 p.m. 907/ Elena and Elenita were driven

to the Cuban Embassy by Elena's brother who was embar-

rassed by their behavior. 908/ This occurred before

they had seen photographs of Oswald. 909/

Ms. Garro claimed that later in the day she and

Elenita were visited by Manuel Calvillo who told them

that they were in serious danger from the Communists and

that he would take them to a small hotel, where they

would be safe for a few days. 910/ Elena said she

trusted and believed Calvillo because he was a known

undercover agent for the Mexico Government. 911/ He

was also a friend of Noe Palomares 912/and of President

Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. 913/ Calvillo also told Elena

and

her daughter that Silvia Duran had been arrested. 914/

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Duran's arrest was not public information at that time. 915/

Elena could not remember the name of the hotel

so that same day (12/25/65) she took Thomas to the sec-

tion of Mexico City where she thought it was. 916/ They

found the hotel, the Hotel Vermont. 917/ Elena said

that she assumed that Calvillo had registered them as rela-

tives or friends from San Luis Potosi. 918/ They stayed

at the hotel until the following Friday, November 30, 1963,

hardly leaving their rooms. 919/

Elena claimed that while she and Elenita were at

the hotel they saw the photos of Oswald and realized

that he had been the man at Ruben Duran's party. 920/

When Calvillo visited them at the hotel, Elena told him

that she wanted to report her story, which she related

to Calvillo, to the American Embassy. Calvillo, however,

dissuaded her by saying that the American Embassy was

full of Communists. 921/ Elena stated that when she

returned home, guards were posted outside her house. 922/

Elena alleged that after she returned home she

saw her sister, Deba Guerrero, who had independetly

come to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had been

at Ruben Duran's party. 923/ Deba was "terrified" be-

cause approximately two months after the assassination

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two

"Communists" personally warned her never to reveal

that she had been

to a party with Oswald. 924/ Deba,

consequently, would not accompany Elena to the American

Embassy to tell her story on November 24, 1964. 925/

Elena stated that it was "common knowledge" that

Silvia had been Oswald's mistress. 926/ When asked who

could verify the allegation, she could only remember one

person

who had told her this. 927/ Elena claimed that

person was Victor Rico Galan, 928/ a "pro-Castro journa-

list. " 929/ (See Section VI, A, 2, a, above.)

Subsequent to December 25, 1965, Elena found her

calendar and reconstructed the date of the party as

Tate September and not early September. 930/ When Tho

mas went to Ferris' office and informed him, Ferris re-

plied.

that Elena had given the late September date when

she had originally reported her story at the American

Embassy. 931/ However, Mr. Ferris explained to Thomas

that someone who had been at the twist party had stated

that there were no Americans there. 932/ Mr. Ferris

did not tell Mr. Thomas that Ario Alejandro Lavagnini

Stenius had provided this information in 1964. 933/

Mr. Ferris

suggested that it was not necessary for Thomas

to pursue Elena's allegations since he considered the

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Oswald case closed and had heard all the rumors before. 934/

Thomas forwarded (the same day) a copy of his

memorandum to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico

City Station to aid in its investigation of the John F.

Kennedy assassination.

935/ On the first page of the

memorandum of conversation, Winston Scott wrote,

"Shouldn't we send to Headquarters?" Someone responded,

"Of course." 936/

The Mexico City Station sent a cable to Head-.

quarters on December 12, 1965, reporting that it was

"following up" and would cable the results. 937/

7. December 27, 1965 Legal Attache Memo to the

United States Ambassador re Elena Garro

On December 27, 1965 Nathan Ferris wrote a memo

to the Ambassador reporting that Elena and her daughter

were interviewed on 17 and 24 November 1964 by the Legal

Attache's office in Mexico City. 938/ The memo recorded

that Elena and her daughter had furnished information si-

milar to the information reported in Thomas' 12/10/65

memo. 939/ The memo further stated,

"Inquiries conducted at that time (November

1964), however, failed to substantiate the

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allegations made by Mrs. Garro de Paz

and her daughter.

In view of the fact

that Mrs. Garro de Paz' allegations

have been previously checked out without

substantiation, no further action

•is

being taken concerning her recent repeti-

tion of those allegations. 940/

The Legal Attache forwarded a copy of the memoran-

dum to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico City

Station 941/ prior to 12/29/65. 942/

A cable written by Anne Goodpasture on December

29, 1965 reporting the Legat interview with Elena and

the Legat Office's failure to substantiate Elena's story

was sent to Headquarters. 943/ The cable promised to

keep Headquarters advised if any further information

was to developed. 944/

LICOOKIE's 10/5/64 memo is attached to the 12/29/65

cable. Wx-7241 explained this in a marginal comment, "This

document by LICOOKIE was not in (Oswald's file), but

was copied from (a project file) and attached to MEXI

5741, 29 Dec. 65. " 946/

A notestapled to this cable by Allen White stated,

"I don't know what FBI did in November 1964, but the

Garros have been talking about this for a long time

and

she is said to be extremely bright." 947/ Anne Good-

pasture wrote that the FBI had found Elena's allegations

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unsubstantiated but that "we will try to confirmor

refute Ms. Garro de Paz' information and follow up." 948/

Win Scott wrote, "She is also 'nuts.'" 949/

8. CIA Investigation of Elena's allegation that

she created a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy

on November 23, 1963

On February 3, 1966, Anne Goodpasture forwarded

Thomas' December 25, 1965 memo to the Cuban section at

the Mexico City Station with an attached note asking

the Section to check whether Elena was "seen creating

such a disturbance as they claimed in front of the Cuban

Embassy." 950/

One Cuban section officer responded, "No bells

ring with me." Another one wrote, "Me neither." The

third officer wrote, "No pictures either." 951/ There is no indica

tion, after reviewing CIA files, that the penetration agents in

the Cuban Embassy were queried about Elena's allegation: 952/ That

there are

no pictures is reasonable since Elena claimed

that the event happened: 1) on a Saturday at 3:00 p.m.

when the Cuban Embassy was not normally photographically

surveilled; 953/ and 2) the "disturbance" occurred in-

side the Cuban compound. HSCA examination of the CIA

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Cuban Embassy photographic surveillance showed no sur-

veillance on 11/23/63. 954/ The Committee found that

Central Intelligence Agency made no other effort to

corroborate Ms. Garro's allegations.

9. Legal Attache: 2/23/66 Memo to the United States

Ambassador Regarding Elena Garro's Allegations

On 2/23/66 the Legal Attache wrote a memo to the

Ambassador reporting that "extensive investigation"

failed to disclose that Oswald had traveled to Mexico

prior to September 26, 1963 and that no information had

developed that would show that he had not been in New

Orleans in the early part of that month. 955/ The memo

reiterated that no further action was being taken by

the FBI because Elena's allegations had not been substan-

tiated by it. 956/

The Legal Attache forwarded a copy

of this memo to the Central Intelligence Agency's Mexico

City Station. 957/ A marginal comment made by Raymond

Rocca next to this entry in Wx-7241 says, "How can it

be ascertained that Oswald did not travel to Mexico

prior to early September 1963? There must be some basis

for Elena's reporting." 958/

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10. Legal Attache Memo to Winston Scott re Elena's

Allegation that She Had Stayed at the Hotel

Vermont from the Day After the Assassination

Until November 30, 1963

On 10/13/66, the Legal Attache wrote a memo to

Win Scott reporting that a reliable confidential infor-

mant had

reported that the records of the Hotel Vermont

disclosed that one "Elena Paz, housewife from San Luis

Potosi," had registered at the Hotel Vermont on November

23, 1963. 959/ She left on November 30, 1963. 960/

The memo said, "The above individual may or may not be

identical with Elena Garro de Paz." 961/ The House Se-

lect Committee on Assassinations has been unable to deter-

mine why the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal

Bureau of Investigations waited until 1966 to investigate

this aspect of Elena's story.

Charles Thomas' 12/25/65 memo stating "She and

her daughter did not personally register at the hotel.

She thinks Calvillo registered them as relatives or

friends of his from

San Luis Potosi, " corroborates

Elena Garro's presence at the Hotel Vermont. 962/ The

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entry for the 10/13/66 Legat memo in Wx-7241 bore the

notation, "This is what Elena cläimed and no one would

believe her. " 963/

11. Charles Thomas' September 30, 1969 Letter to

State Department and Legal Attache's Response

No further report on Elena's story was generated

until 1969 when Charles Thomas was "selected out" of the

United States Foreign Service. 964/ At that time, he

wrote a memorandum to the Secretary off State which in-

cluded a cover letter stating, "Since I was the Embassy

Officer in Mexico who acquired this intelligence informa-

tion, I feel a responsibility for seeing it through to

its final evaluation." 965/

Charles Thomas' memorandum stated that "he got

no reaction from Nathan Ferris and Winston Scott" regard-

ing his memorandum of December 25, 1965. 966/ In addi-

tion, Thomas wrote that the only person to speak to him

about the December 25, 1965 memorandum, Clarence Boon-

stra 967/ told him that Oswald had not been in Mexico

on the date given for the party. 968/ Thomas noted that

even when he reiterated that Elena had not changed her

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story but rather that she had now given a more detailed

account, Boonstra stated that the date was wrong and dis-

missed the entire affair.

969/

One of the Mexico City Legat Officers, Nathan

Ferris, in reply to Thomas' letter and memorandum, asserted

that Thomas' office had been advised by memoranda dated

December 21, 1965 and February 23, 1966 that since Elena

Garro's allegations had previously been investigated

without substantiation, no further action was being taken

concerning

her recent repetition of those allegations. 970/

In its report, the Legat's Office concluded that either

the Counselor for Political Affairs did not route the

memoranda to Charles Thomas or that Thomas did not re-

call receiving them. 971/

Thomas wrote that when he went to Nathan Ferris'

office to inform him that Elena had found her calendar 972a/

and had reconstructed the date of the party as late

September,

Ferris replied that Elena had given the late

September date when she had originally reported her story

at the American Embassy. 972/ Thomas noted that Ferris

explained that someone who had been at the party had

stated that there had not been any Americans in attendance. 973/

Thomas wrote that he had assumed that Elena could have

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clearly been mistaken about the identity of the Ameri-

can she saw there, but never doubted that she had seen

some Americans. 974/ Thomas wrote that Ferris had sug-

gested that it was not necessary for Thomas to pursue

the matter since he considered the Oswald case closed

and had heard all the rumors before. 975/

The Legal Attache's reply to Thomas' memo stated

that Mr. Ferris had not told Thomas that someone who was

at the party had stated that there had not been any Ameri-

cans present. 976/ The Legal Attache's memo asserted

that Thomas had been told that it would not be necessary

for him to pursue the matter any further since Elena's

story had been investigated previously without being

substantiated. 971/ In addition, the memo stated that

Thomas had been told that Elena's story was considered

a closed issue, not that the Oswald case was closed. 978/

12. House Select Committee on Assassination's

Investigation of Elena Garro's Allegations

The House Select Committee on Assassinations in-

vestigated Elena

Garro's story both through file reviews

and

personal interviews.

The Committee requested and

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reviewed the CIA's, FBI's and State Department's files

on Elena Garro de Paz, Elenita Garro de Paz, Manuel Calvillo,

Noe W. Palomares, June Cobb Sharp, Victor Rico Galan,

Eunice Odio, Sylvia Duran, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran, Betty

Serratos, Horatio Duran, Eusebio Azcue, and Emilio Car-

ballido. Only the Elena Garro de Paz file contained in-

formation on her allegations. Though all the names listed

above played a role in Elena Garro de Paz' story, not one

of their files included a reference to Elena Garro de Paz.

Furthermore, the House Select Committee on Assassina-

tions requested and

reviewed the Central Intelligence

Agency's LICOOKIE/1, LICHANT/1, LIRING/3, and TICHBORN

files. Once again, not one of the files included a men-

tion of Elena Garro's allegations. The House Select Com-

mittee on Assassinations learned that LICOOKIE/1, who first

reported to the CIA Elena's allegation, was June Cobb

sharp. 979/

LICHANT/1 was

Manuel Calvillo who had hidden Elena Garro and her daughter

in a hotel the day following the assassination. 980/

He also told Elena that Silvia Duran had been

arrested

before this fact had become public knowledge. 981/

Since a file review

was inconclusive, the Committee

arranged interviews in Mexico with Ruben Duran, Horatio

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Duran, Elena and Elenita Garro, Silvia Duran, Lynn Duran,

Emilio Carbillido and Betty Serratos. 982/ The Mexican

Government informed the House Select Committee on Assassina-

tions that Elena and Elenita Garro disappeared in 1968

during the student uprisings and have never returned to

Mexico. 983/ The officials stated that Elena and her

daughter might be in Spain. 984/ The Mexican government

reported that Emilio Carballido could not be found. 985/

The others were interviewed between June l and June 6,

1978. 986/

Betty Serratos, Lydia Duran, Ruben Duran and

Horatio Duran all stated that Elena was not the dancing

type and therefore did not attend any of the twist parties

at the Duran

homes. 987/ When Silvia Duran was asked if

Elena or Elenita Garro ever attended twist parties at the

Duran homes, she recalled Elena attending one twist party

at Ruben's home in 1963 after the Garros returned to Mexico

from France. 988/ All the Durans denied that Lee Harvey

Oswald had attended any party at one of their homes. 989/

The Committee next asked the Central Intelligence

Agency to arrange interviews with LICHANT/l (Manuel Calvillo),

LICOOKIE/1 (June Cobb), who may have had information related

to Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City. 990/ The

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Central Intelligence Agency declined to aid the Committee

in this aspect of the investigation. 99l/

The Committee returned to Mexico City on August 7,

1978 and attempted to locate June Cobb Sharp and Manuel

Calvillo on its own. 992/

The Mexican government told the Committee that

June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number 72781,

on June 27, 1947 when she entered Mexico through Nuevo

Lardeo. She

asked, but was denied, permission to repre-

sent the magazine, Modern Mexico. On June 21, 1948, she

received a coutesy permiet, number 25556. Furthermore,

the Mexican government explained that she disappeared in

1954 and never returned to Mexico. 993/

The Committee believes that this information is

incorrect.

According to Ms. Cobb's CIA file, she worked

for the agency as an asset in Mexico from 1961 through

1966. 994/ Elena also stated that Ms. Cobb resided at

her home in 1964. 995/

The Mexican government told the Committee that

Manuel Calvillo did not live at Cuohtemoc 877-5 as the

Committee had informed it. The Mexican Government's

agent-in-charge had spoken to the superintendent at the

apartments at which Manuel Calvillo was believed to reside,

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and

was informed by the'

superintendent who had worked

at the apartments for twenty-five years, said that no

Manuel Calvillo had ever resided there. When Committee

staffers gave the Mexican government Calvillo's pen

name, the Mexicans gave the same answers. 996/

The committee believes that there is a possibility

that Mr. Calvillo lived at this address since it acquired

the address from a recent CIA document. 997/

The committee believes that there is a possibility

that a U.S. Government agency requested the Mexican govern-

ment to refrain from aiding the Committee with this aspect

of its work. 998/ (See Procedural Write-up Trip 2 Mexico

City and Section VII, C, below.)

The Committee made every attempt possible to locate

Elena.

On July 7, 1978 the Committee telephoned her pub-

lisher, Mortiz, in Mexico City and inquired about Elena's

whereabouts. 999/ The publisher stated that Ms. Garro

was living in the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Madrid, Spain. 1000/

The Committee telephoned the Hotel S.A.C.E. in Spain and

spoke to the manager who told him that Ms. Garro had

moved. 1001/ On July 14, 1978 the Committee called her

publisher again and was told to contact the Mexican Embassy

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in Madrid, Spain. 1002/ The publisher stated that all

Elena's payments were sent there because she did not

even trust her publisher with her address., 1003/

The Committee called the Mexican Embassy in

Madrid, Spain

and spoke to Adolfo Padilla, a Mexican em-

ployee of the Embassy who stated that when Elena had

visited the Embassy a couple of weeks before to pick up

a check she seemed financially destitute. 1004/ He

stated that when he asked Elena her new address she

declined to give one, stating that she would return every

few weeks to pick up checks and mail. 1005/ The Commit-

tee gave Padilla a telephone number and a message asking

Elena to telephone the Committee collect. 1006/

On September 5, 1978 Elena Garro called the Commit-

tee. 1007/ When it was explained that the Committee wished

to talk to her in person and would pay both her daughter's

and her travel from Spain to the United States, Ms. Garro

asked why she should believe the Committee was what it

claimed to be. 1008/ The Committee asked Ms. Garro to

call back collect in the next few days when it could ex-

plain to her when and where she could receive a Committee

letter delineating why the Committee wished to interview

her. 1009/ The Committee wrote the letter and made arrange-

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ments with the State Department for a letter to be hand-

delivered to Elena at the American Embassy in Spain. 1010/

On September 7, 1978, Elena Garro called the Com-

mittee and asked when the letter would arrive. 1011/

The Committee explained that she could pick up the letter

on Monday, September 11, 1978. from George Phelan, the

Counsellor for Consular Affairs at the American Embas-

sy. 1012/ Ms. Garro stated that she would get the letter

on September 11, 1978 and follow our

suggestions. 1013/

Ms. Garro never went to the American Embassy in

Spain to pick up the Committee's letter. 1014/ The

Committee, hoping she would pick up the letter before

her flight date, proceeded to purchase air tickets for

both Elena and her daughter. 1015/ Elena did not pick

up the tickets at the airport. 1016/ The Committee has

not been able to regain contact with Ms. de Paz again.

The Committee also investigated whether Charles

Thomas' "selection out"

was related to the Oswald case.

After

interviewing

his widow, Ms. Cynthia Thomas, the

Committee has concluded that his dismissal was unre-

lated. 1017/

In sum, the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

has not been able to confirm

the evidence that would indi-

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cate that Lee Harvey Oswald, on one night while he was

in Mexico,

attended a "twist party" at the home of Ruben

Duran

Navarro, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. In

addition, the House Select Committee on Assassinations

has been unable to confirm the allegation that Lee Harvey

Oswald travelled while in Mexico City with "two beatnik-

looking boys. " A large part of the committee's attempts

to investigate these issues

has met with frustration.

D. Oscar Contreras Lartigue

On March 16, 1967, B. J. Ruyle, the American Consul

in Tampico, reported to the American Embassy that he had

spoken to a reporter who allegedly had met Lee Harvey Oswald

at the National Autonomous University of Mexico City 1018/

in 1963. 1019/ The reporter, stressing that he had only

a fleeting contact with Oswald, had claimed to have known

only about Lee Harvey Oswald's desire to travel to Cuba

and the Embassy's unwillingness to grant him a visa. 1020/

When B. J. Ruyle asked the reporter for permission to

cable the story to the American Embassy, the reporter

declined, stating that he feared losing his job. 1021/

subsequent

to the assassination, the reporter had told

his editor about his contact with Lee Harvey Oswald, who

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had advised him not to report it. 1022/ The reporter

granted B. J. Ruyle permission to cable the story to

the American Embassy when Ruyle promised that it would

be handled with the strictest confidence. 1023/ Ruyle

wrote that he thought the reporter was genuinely con-

cerned about his job. 1024/

A letter from B. J. Ruyle to the State Department

dated May 11, 1967 provided additional details of the

reporter's story. 1025/ The reporter alleged that he

and some fellow students had met Lee Harvey Oswald as

they exited the Cineclub at the Escuela de Filosofia

(School of Philosophy) at the National Autonomous Univer-

sity of Mexico. 1026/ Oswald told the group that he had

gone to the National Autonomous University of Mexico

looking for pro-Castro students who might help him per-

suade the Cuban Embassy to grant him a visa. 1027/

Oswald claimed that he was from California and was a mem-

ber of a pro-Castro group in New Orleans. 1028/ Oswald

remained with the students the rest of that day and even-

ing, as well as the following day. 1029/ The reporter

described Oswald as a strange and introverted individual

who spoke very little Spanish. 1030/

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The State Department forwarded a copy of Ruyle's

letter to the Central Intelligence Agency. 1031/ On

June 14, 1967, CIA Headquarters sent the Mexico City Sta-

tion a copy of Ruyle's letter to Bowles. 1032/ CIA

Headquarters considered Ruyle's report "the first piece

of substantive info about Oswald's sojourn in Mexico"

since the assassination. 1033/ Consequently, Headquarters

cabled that though it understood the source's reluctance

to become involved "the fact remains that this info

cannot continue to be withheld or concealed. " 1034/

Headquarters instructed the Mexico City Station to eli-

cit the identity of the source from Ruyle. 1035/ In

addition, Headquarters asked the Mexico City Station to

bear in mind, while interviewing Ruyle's source, that

Lee Harvey Oswald was a homosexual. 1036/ The final

sentence of the dispatch, "It is our hope that the facts

obtained through these interviews will help to confirm

that several of Garrison's allegations about involvement

of anti-Castro

Cubans, the CIA, etc. are false," 1037/

explained the Central Intelligence Agency's motives for

pursuing the

story.

On June 29, 1967, the Mexico City Station cabled

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Headquarters that a

station officer had gone to Tampico

where he had

interviewed Ruyle's source, Oscar Contreras. 1038/

The cable reported that Contreras was a reporter for

El Sol 1039/

in Tampico; was circa

thirty years old; married, with three children; studied

law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

(UNAM) from 1960 to 1964; belonged to a pro-Castro group

at UNAM; was persecuted by the Mexican police for this

affiliation and moved to Tampico to escape the persecu-

tion 1040/.

Contreras told the Mexico City Station official

that he and four other

individuals 1041/ had met Oswald

as they exited a roundtable discussion held at the School

of Philosophy at UNAM. 1042/ Contreras stated that Oswald

had made inquiries on the UNAM campus about pro-Cuban

groups and had been directed to his group. 1043/ Con-

treras reported that though the group initially mistrusted

Oswald fearing he was a "CIA provocation," they allowed

Oswald to remain with them that day and night and part

of the following day. 1044/ Contreras noted that Oswald

never mentioned assassination but kept emphasizing that

he had to get to Cuba. 1045/ In addition, Oswald had

exhibited no homosexual tendencies while he was with the

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group. 1046/

105

On July 4, 1967, Headquarters cabled the Mexico

City Station that Contreras' story should be explored

to the fullest even though he might have fabricated it. 1047/

Headquarters suggested that the FBI handle the story. 1048/

The following day, July 5, 1967, the Mexico City Station

cabled that it preferred turning Contreras' case over to

the Mexican

authorities and to the F.B.I. 1049/ The

same day, the Chief of Station informed the Legat of Con-

treras' story, but asked him not to take any action with-

out first

consulting the Mexico City Station. 1050/

On July 10, 1967, Jeremy K. Benedum ("JKB" ) wrote

a memo delineating the results of a Mexican government

review of Oscar Contreras' file. 1051/ According to a

memo, a lone Oscar Contreras appeared in the UNAM law

school records, Oscar Contreras Lartigue, born 2/14/39

in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. 1052/ The memo also re-

ported that a newspaper article appearing in "Excelsior"

listed

an Oscar Contreras as a signer of a protest for

the Bloque Estudiantil Revolucionario 1053/ which had

been formed mid-1961. 1054/ The memo speculated that

Contreras probably signed the protest as a front man to .

protect the real leaders of the group. 1056/ The Mexico

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following day, June 11, 1969. 1056/

The Committee has

determined that the Central In-

telligence Agency's main interest in Oscar Contreras

was "to confirm that several of Garrison's allegations

about involvement of anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA, etc.

are false." 1057/ After the CIA Mexico City Station

official's interview with Contreras 1058/ revealed

nothing that could be useful to the agency, it decided

to allow the FBI to follow the story through. 1059/

Nonetheless, the Agency's Mexico City Station inter-

viewed the key witness, reviewed pertinent files and

records about the witness in the Mexican government's

possession,

and reported all the information to Head-

quarters expeditiously.

VII. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in

Mexico City

A. Introduction

After the Warren Commission published its report

two very important allegations related to Lee Harvey Os-

wald's activities in Mexico City came to the attention of

the United States investigative agencies. In 1964, Elena

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Garro de Paz reported that she had seen Lee Harvey Oswald,

accompanied by two other men, at a party at the home of

Ruben Duran Navarre, the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran. 1060/

In 1967, Oscar Contreras Lartigue reported that

he met

Lee Harvey Oswald on the campus of the National Autono-

mous University of Mexico. 1061/

In addition, the testimony of the Warren Commission's

primary witness related to Mexico City, Silvia Tirado

Duran, has been called into question by the critics

throughout the years. 1062/ Some of the information

that is inconsistent with Ms. Duran's original story--

that Oswald visited the Consulate on two occasions which

were the only times she saw

him--was available at the

time of the warren Commission's inquiry although it was

ignored. 1063/ Some of the information has developed

after the publication of the Warren Report. 1064/

The Garro and Contreras allegations, in conjunction

with the inconsistencies of Ms. Duran's story raise three ma-

jor questions: (1) did Lee Harvey Oswald or an imposter

visit the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City?; (2) other

than his visits to the Cuban Consulate, what were Lee Har-

vey Oswald's activities in Mexico City?; and, (3) was

Lee Harvey Oswald travelling alone in Mexico? These

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three questions overlap somewhat in detail; e.g., if Os-

wald was not traveling alone, did one of his companions

impersonate him at the Cuban Consulate? Nonetheless,

each of the three questions will be dealt with in separate

sections below.

In an attempt to answer these questions the House

Select Committee on Assassinations has: 1) interviewed

Mexican 1065/ and Cuban citizens 1066/ who could have

knowledge of Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate;

2) interviewed Mexican citizens 1067/ who could have know-

ledge of Oswald's activities and associations in Mexico

City; 3) conducted

an extensive review of the files of

the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau

of Investigation that pertain to Oswald's sojourn in

Mexico City. 1068/

B. Did Lee Harvey Oswald or an Imposter Contact

the Cuban and Soviet Consulates in Mexico City?

Lee Harvey Oswald himself probably visited the Cuban

Consulate at least once since his application for a Cuban

instransit visa bears his signature. 1069/ Though the

Cuban Consulate allowed visa applicants

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of the consulate to be returned when

completed, 1070/ Silvia Duran stated she was certain that

Oswald signed the application in her presence. 1071/ Os-

wald's signature on the Cuban visa application, however,

does not by itself rule out the possibility that someone

impersonated Oswald in contacts with the Cuban and Soviet

Embassies.

An analysis of the telephone conversations which

the CIA's Mexico City Station intercepted by tapping the

Soviet Consulate and the Soviet Military Attache's tele-

phone reveals that someone, later identified by the CIA as Oswald,

visited the Cuban Consulate at least two times and the

Soviet Consulate at least three times. 1072/ On Septem-

ber 27, 1963, at 4:05 p.m. Silvia Duran called the Soviet

Consulate. In this conversation she referred to an Ameri-

can seeking an intransit visa to Cuba. 1073/ The substan-

tive information given indicates that she was discussing

Oswald. 1074/ At this time the individual using Oswald's

name already had been at the Soviet Embassy at least once,

since Silvia requested the name of the Soviet Embassy offi-

cial who dealt with the American. 1075/ Silvia also

stated that the American was, at that time, in the Cuban

Consulate. 1076/ At 4:26 p.m. a Soviet Consular official

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returned Silvia Duran's call. 1077/ This official sta-

ted

specifically that Oswald had visited the soviet Con-

sulate. 1078/

On September 28, 1963, at 11:51 a.m. Silvia Duran

called the Soviet Consulate. 1079/ She put the American,

later identified

as Oswald, on the telephone. 1080/ The

American, who was at the Cuban Consulate at the time,

said that he had just been at the Soviet Consulate. 1081/

The conversation ended with the American stating that he

was returning to the Soviet Consulate. 1082/

Analysis of Silvia Duran's and Eusebio Azcue's

testimony would tend to indicate that Oswald, or someone

impersonating him, visited the Cuban Consulate at least

one and possibly two additional times on September 27,

1963. Silvia Duran says that Oswald first visited the

Cuban Consulate at approximately 11:00 a.m. requesting

an intransit visa to Cuba with Russia as the final de-

stination. 1083/

Ms. Duran sent Oswald to obtain photo-

graphs that he needed for the visa application. 1084/

Eusebio Azcue recalls that this visit probably occurred

on the date on the visa application, 9/27/63. 1085/

Ms. Duran also stated that Oswald returned at ap-

proximately 1:00 p.m. with four photographs. 1086/ Eusebio

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Azcue also stated that the individual later identified

as Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate about 1:00 p.m.

with the photographs probably on "the date that appears

on the application, that is to say on the 27th." 1087/

The committee believes that there is a possibility that

the argument between Azcue and the individual occurred

during this visit. 1088/

Ms. Duran stated that Oswald's third and last

visit occurred

in the late afternoon after working hours

on the 27th. 1089/ This visit is confirmed by the ClA's

tap on the Soviet Consulate. 1090/

In addition to the alleged Oswald visits to the

consulates, there were other telephonic contacts that may

have been between Oswald, or an imposter, and the consu-

lates. 1091/

Several details about Oswald's visits to

the Cuban Consulate, and telephonic contacts with both

consulates suggest that the individual involved may not

have been Oswald..

Silvia

Duran's description of Oswald did not re-

semble Oswald's true physical appearance. 1092/ This

description, which appeared early in the reporting of in-

formation obtained from Ms. Duran was deleted from subse-

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Report. 1093/ (See Section V, C, for details.) Eusebio

Azcue's description of Oswald was similar. to silvia

Duran's, but more detailed. 1094/ Perhaps the most re-

markable thing about these descriptions is their simi-

larity to Elena Garra de Paz' description of one of Os-

wald's alleged companions. 1095/

Another possible indication that an imposter may

also have visited the Consulate is the 9/28/63 intercepted

conversation. 1096/ Silvia Duran adamantly denies that Oswald

or any other American visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday,

September 28, 1963. 1097/ In light of the CIA intercept

of that date, Ms. Duran has either lied to the Committee

or the individual who visited the Consulate on September

28 was not Oswald. 1098/ Ms. Duran, in light of the in-

consistencies detailed in Sections V, C and VI, A above,

may not be the most credible witness, but there are indi-

cations that she was truthful when she stated that Oswald

did not visit the Consulate on September 28. The Septem-

ber 28, 1963 conversation was linked to Oswald because

of the marginal notations made by the CIA translator on

the transcript. 1099/ The translator noted on the trans-

cript that the caller spoke "terrible, hardly recognizable

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Russian. " 1100/ On October 1, 1963, a man called the

Soviet Consulate and identified himself as "Lee Os-

wald." 1101/ This man also stated that he had been at

the Consulate on Saturday, the 28th. 1102/ The transla-

tor noted that this was the same man who had called the

Consulate "a day or so ago" and had spoken in broken

Russian. 1103/ From this information, and possibly a

voice comparison 1104/, the 9/28 caller was identified

as Oswald. 1105/ The problem with assuming that the

caller on 9/28 and 10/1 was Oswald is that Oswald spoke

fluent Russian. 1106/ Granted, Ms. Duran's denial of

the Saturday visit and the proficiency of the caller's

Russian is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the

person

who

visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday and

who called the Soviet Consulate on Saturday and on Octo-

ber Ist was an imposter. Yet the information is suffi-

cient to question the assumption that it was Oswald,

especially in light of Azcue's and Duran's descriptions

and Elena Garro de Paz' allegation.

The Committee notes the possibility, but does not

conclude, that the missing production from the pulse

camera

and the LILYRIC base has something to do with the

possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in Mexico.

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Three calls that also occurred early on September

27, 1963 may have been by an imposter. At approximately

10:30 a.m. a man called the Soviet Military Attache

looking for a visa to Odessa and was referred to the So-

viet Consulate. 1108/ At 10:37 a.m. a man called the

Soviet Consulate and asked for a visa to Odessa. 1109/

He was told to call back at 11:00. 1110/ At 1:25 p.m.

a man called the Soviet Embassy and was told the Consul

would return between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. that day.

While only the callers' requests for a visa to

Russia 1112/ (Odessa) connect these calls to Oswald,

the HSCA believes that they do fit logically into a time

sequence created by what is known from testimony and the

electronic intercepts about his actions on that day.

For example, the following is a reasonable possible

chronology of Oswald's actions on 9/27/63 based on analy-

sis of the available evidence. Oswald probably arrived

in Mexico around 10:00 a.m. on September 27. 1113/ By

10:30 Oswald had time to

arrive at the Hotel del Comercio

and to place a call to the Soviet Military Attache who

referred him to the Consul. 1114/ The military attache

also gave the caller directions to the Consulate. 1115/

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During the 10:37 a.m. call to the Consulate, the caller

learned that he could contact the Soviet Consul at 11:00

a.m. 1116/ This done, Oswald then visited the Cuban

Consulate where he arrived around 11:00 a.m., on his way

to the Soviet Consulate. This meeting lasted only approxi-

mately fifteen

minutes. 1118/ Oswald was then sent to

obtain photographs and to the Russian Embassy to get the

necessary Russian

visa. 1119/ Oswald returned to the

Cuban Consulate around 1:00 p.m. 1120/ At this point he

had his encounter with Azcue and completed his application.

Oswald realized at this point that he would have problems

obtained the visas. 1122/ After this visit to the Cuban

Consulate, which lasted approximately fifteen minutes 1123/

Oswald tried to contact the Soviet Consul whom Oswald

claimed had assured him that he would have no problems

obtaining a visa. 1124/ Hence, the 1:25 call. 1125/

During this conversation Oswald learned that the Consul

would be in that evening between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. 1126/

Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate at 4:00 and Silvia

Duran called the Soviet Consul on his behalf. 1127/

Hence, the 4:05 and 4:26 p.m. calls involving Duran. 1128/

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tions are all in Spanish.

With the exception of the

1129/

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wald did not speak Spanish. Hence, either the above

detailed calls were not made by Oswald or Oswald could

speak Spanish.

There is not enough evidence firmly to conclude

that some one did impersonate Oswald in Mexico. On the

other händ, the evidence is of such a nature that the

possibility cannot be dismissed.

C. What were Lee Harvey Oswald's Activities in

Mexico City?

When the Warren Commission wrote about Lee Harvey

Oswald's activities in Mexico City, it concluded:

The Commission undertook an intensive investi-

gation to

determine Oswald's purpose and acti-

vities on this journey, with specific reference

to reports that Oswald was an agent of the Cuban

or soviet Governments.

As a result of its investi-

gation, the commission believes that it has

been

able to

reconstruct and explain most of Oswald's

actions during this time.

By Saturday, September 28, 1963, Lee Harvey

Oswald had

failed to obtain

visas at both

the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. From Sunday,

September 29, through Wednesday morning, Octo-

ber 2, when he left Mexico City on a bus bound

for the United States, Oswald spent considerable

time making his travel arrangements, sightseeing

and

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learn whether anything had happened on his

visa application. 1131/

subsequent to the Warren Commission's Report,

the allegations of Elena Garro 1132/ and Oscar Contreras

Lartigue 1133/ came to the attention of the United

States investigative agencies. The main allegation of

both these people, that they met lee Harvey Oswald

in Mexico City, remains to this day without direct corro-

boration. Yet the committee feels that it cannot dis-

miss these allegations without giving them any considera-

tion.

The testimony of Silvia Duran and the Cuban Consu-

late Officials Azcue and Mirabal place Oswald's last

contact with the Cuban Embassy on Friday evening, Septem-

ber 27, 1963. 1134/ The transcripts from the CIA's wire-

taps on the Soviet Consulate place Oswald's last visits

to the Soviet and Cuban Consulates on Saturday morning,

September 28, 1963. 1135/ Oswald's last telephonic

contact with the Soviet Consulate came on Tuesday, Octo-

ber 1, 1963. 1136/ Oswald's activities on the days be-

tween September 28 and October 1 are not clearly recorded.

The Warren Commission speculated that he spent most

of this time sightseeing and making travel arrangements. 1137/

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It is entirely possible that Oswald did spend some of

his time during this weekend

sightseeing and making

his travel

arrangements. It is also entirely possible

that, after his failure to obtain his visas on Saturday,

September 28, that Oswald did not give up completely

and did attend a party where he would have come into

contact with the Cuban Consular officials and, later,

sought help from pro-Castro students.

It is entirely possible that Ruben Duran had a

"twist party" on September 30, or October 1 1138/ as

Elena Garro has claimed. Ruben, Horacio, Lydia and Silvia

Duran all admitted that they frequently had twist par-

ties in 1963. 1139/ Only Silvia Duran recalled Elena

Garro attending any of the "twist parties" at the Durans'

home. 1140/ She recalled Elena and Elena's daughter,

• Elènita, attending one twist party at Ruben's home in

1963. 1141/ The other Durans adamantly denied that Lee

Harvey Oswald had attended a twist party at one of their

homes. 1142/

Many of the details of Elena Garro's allegations

have not been, or cannot be, corroborated. For example,.

Elena's allegation that some of the people who had been

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at the party were taken to Veracruz under the protection

of Governor Lopez Arias 1143/ has not been verified. Ruben

Duran denied that he had ever discussed the assassination

with Elena Garro. 1144/ Eusebio Azcue denied that he

had discussed President Kennedy with Emilio Carballido

at a party at the durans' home as alleged by Elena

Garro. 1145/ The Committee has not been able to verify

whether or not guards were

posted outside of Elena's

home in 1963 as she claims.

But other details of Elena's story are very credi-

ble. Perhaps the most striking is the suggestion that

Oswald's relationship with Silvia Duran was more exten-

sive than just the business contacts in the Cuban consu-

late. 1146/ Another detail is the manner in which Elena's

allegations were handled, and the manner in which this

Committee's attempts to investigate those allegations

have been frustatred. 1147/

In 1965 Elena Garro reported that Silvia Duran

had been Oswald's mistress while he was in Mexico City. 1148/

In 1967 this report was confirmed by a CIA agent who

talked to Silvia Duran. 1149/ The CIA Station did not.

consider the information significant and told the agent

to end his contact with Ms. Duran. 1150/ If that informa-

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then that Silvia invited Oswald to

a party would not have been surprising. Silvia Duran

admitted that the Mexican police had questioned her on

this point but denied that she had had an affair with

Oswald. 1151/ Ms.

Duran denied having any extra-marital

affairs while she was married to Horacio Duran. 1152/

This denial is not consistent with evidence of her reputa-

tion at the Cuban Consulate. A CIA penetration agent

there reported to his case officer that all that would

have to be done to recruit Silvia Duran, whom he referred

to by using the spanish word for whore, would be to get

a blond blue-eyed American into bed with her. 1153/

There is also CIA information that indicates that Silvia

Duran had an affair with a Cuban Ambassador to Mexico

in the early 1960's. 11544

The HSCA attempted to interview the CIA penetra-

tion agent about Ms. Duran. 1155/ An interview with the

agent was also desired so as to attempt to verify whether

Elena Garro had created a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy.

on November 23, 1963. 1156/ The Committee's attempts

to interview this agent were frustrated. 1157/

Ms. Garro's claim that she stayed at the Hotel

Vermont was verified by the Mexico

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October 13, 1966. 1158/ Ms. Garro claimed that she had

been held there by Manuel Calvillo whom she believed

worked for the Mexican Ministry of Government. 1159/

In 1963, Mr. Calvillo was an unwitting asset of the Central

Intelligence Agency. 1160/ Ms. Garro claimed that she

told Mr. Calvillo her story on November 23, 1963. 1161/

Yet

the CIA Mexico City Station did not receive a report

from Calvillo on this matter until November 24, 1964, the

same day that Elena first told her story to American of-

ficials. 1162/ For these reasons it was felt that

Manuel Calvillo could well be a key to determining the

veracity of Ms. Garro's story. The Committee's attempt

to interview Mr. Calvillo were also frustrated.

There is also circumstantial corroboration of Ms.

Garro's allegations regarding June Cobb Sharp. For exam-

ple, Ms. Cobb was indeed a CIA agent and she did file

the first report of Ms. Garro's story. 1164/ It should

be noted that this first report was accurate in its detail

in that Ms. Garro's story remained essentially the same

in subsequent repetitions. Ms. Garro claimed that she

kicked Ms. Cobb out of her house. 1165/ There is a nota-

tion on Ms. Cobb's report that she was not able to regain

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access to Ms. Garro. 1166/ The Committee attempted to

obtain an interview with Ms. Cobb, but was once again

frustated. 1167/

Reviewing the manner in which the CIA Mexico City

Station and the Legal Attache's office in Mexico City

handled Ms. Garro's allegations reveals that, at best,

her allegations were handled in an irresponsible manner

because they were dismissed after a superficial investi-

gation. The first report that came to the ClA was mis-

filed and forgotten. 1168/ The Legat, after talking to

Elena, dismissed her story after interviewing one person

whom she said may have been at the party. 1169/ The

manner in which the official American community handled

Charles Thomas' reporting is detailed in Section VI, C,

11, above.

Mr. Thomas speculated in 1969 about why Ms.

Garro's story had been largely ignored by the American

officials

in Mexico:

It would appear that whereas the FBI has

discounted the Elena

Garro allegations.

the CIA is still considerable disturbec

by them.

The CIA may not have pressed for

further investigation, however, for a num-

ber of reasons: 1) considering

the sensi-

tive overlap and subtle competition between

two intelligence collecting

agencies, it

had to yield to the FBI's clear jurisdic-

tion; 2) there are obvious complications

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in conducting such an investigation in a

foreigh country; 3) there is a close

and delicate relationship between the CIA

Station Chief and the former Minister of

Interior--President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz;

and 4

some of the people appearing in

the Elena Garro scenario may well be agents

of the CIA.

Under the circumstances it

is unlikely that any further investiga-

tion of this matter will ever take place

unless it is ordered by a high official

in Washington. 1170/

The Committee attempted to locate Elena Garro.

Although the Committee established telephonic contact

with Ms. Garro, the Committee was totally frustrated

in this aspect of its investigation, but yet believes

that there is a possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald did

attend a twist party at the home of Ruben Duran.

The Committee also considers it possible that

Lee Harvey Oswald contacted pro-Castro students at the

National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad

Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, hereinafter UNAM) as claimed

by Oscar Contreras Lartigue. 1172/ Silvia Duran admitted

that she had told Oswald of two ways in which he could

get a Cuban visa: 1) he could get an intransit visa by

first obtaining a visa to another Communist country such

as Russia; 2) he could obtain a regular Cuban visa by

knowing someone in Cuba who would vouch for him. 1173/

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It is possible that after Oswald's attempts to obtain

a visa by the first method were frustrated on Saturday,

September 28, that he made one final effort to locate

someone trusted by the Cuban Consulate to vouch for.

him.

There is no direct evidence about how Oswald

could have learned of the pro-Castro group at UNAM.

There

is a possibility that Ernesto Leffeld Miller,

a friend of the Durans who borrowed Horacio's car often

took Lee Harvey Oswald to the campus of the National

Autonomous University. On the days when Lee Harvey Os-

wald allegedly visited the Consulate, Mr. Miller did also.

•It is possible that Silvia Duran asked him to escort

Oswald to the campus. Mr. Miller denied having ever

met Oswald. 1174A/ Oscar Contreras says that Oswald

first contacted him as he was leaving a round-table dis-

cussion at the school of philosphy. 1174/ It is known

that, in 1963, the Durans were close friends with the

Chairman of the Philosophy Department at UNAM, Ricardo

Guerra, who held seminars on Kant, Hegel and Marx in the

Durans' home. 1175/ It is possible, if Silvia Duran had

more than just a purely business relationship with Oswald,

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that she referred Oswald to one of Guerra's Marxist

seminars in his search for help. Unfortunately,

Contreras does not name who headed the round table dis-

cussion at which he met Oswald. 1176/ Silvia Duran

denied that she referred Oswald to anyone for help. 1177/

Ricardo Guerra is presently the Mexican Ambassador to

East Germany and was not available to the Committee

for an

interview. On both of the Committee's trips to

Mexico, the Mexican Government told the Committee that

Mr. Contreras would be made available for an interview.

The interview never occurred. 1178/ Although the Com-

mittee's attempt to investigate Mr. Contreras' allegat-

tion met largely with frustration, the allegation can

not be dismissed.

D. Was Lee Harvey Oswald alone while he travelled

to Mexico?

The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Os-

wald travelled alone while he was in Mexico. 1179/

All of the witnesses, with the exception of Elena Garro

de Paz who stated that Oswald was accompanied by two

"beatnik looking boys" 1180/ at Ruben Duran's party,

have stated that when they saw Oswald in Mexico he was

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authorities did not handle

the Elena Garro allegation properly, the Committee does

not believe that it can readily dismiss Ms. Garro's

allegation that Oswald had a companion in Mexico in light

of: 1) the corroboration of details of Ms. Garro's story; 1181/

2) the possibility that someone impersonated Oswald in

Mexico 1182/ and

3)

the similiarity in the description of

Oswald by Ms. Duran and Mr. Azcue and the description of

Oswald's companion

• by Ms. Garro. 1183/

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Appendix I: HSCA Procedural Write-up

• Cuba Trip 1

Select Committee members Chairman Louis Stokes

and Congressman Christopher Dodd, accompanied by G.

Robert Blakey, Gary Cornwell and Ed Lopez of the Select

Committee staff arrived in Cuba at 3:30 p.m., March 30,

1978. They were met and escorted through Cuban Customs

by the Mayor of Havana, Honorable Oscar Fernandez Mell,

the Minister of Justice, Dr. Armando Torres Santrayll,

Señor Buergo, Ricardo Escartin and the Cuban government

translator, Juanita Vera. At approximately 7:30 p.m.

Senor Mell escorted the Select Committee staff to a

restaurant in Old Havana. The following day Congressman

Richardson Preyer arrived in Cuba at 7:00 a.m.

At 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 1978 the Select Committee

representatives met with Ricardo Escartin, Senén Buergo

and Captain Felipe Villa of the Ministry of the Interior.

The Cuban Government gave the members and Committee its

official reply to the committee's questionnaire, given

to the cuban government prior to the Committee's trip

to Cuba.

At 3:00 p.m., the Select Committee met again with

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Ricardo Escartin, Senen Buergo, Felipe Villa and Juanita

Vera. During this session, the two major areas of dis-

cussion were Lee Harvey Oswald's visa application and

the dates of Jack Ruby's visits to Cuba in 1959. 11841

At 7:30 p.m. the House Select Committee on Assassinations

staff dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando Torres

Santrayll.

At 9:00 a.m. on April 1, 1978, the Select Committee

staff again met with the same Cuban officials for a

third session. Santo Trafficante was the major area of

discussion. 1185/ At noon, Committee members and

staff representatives met with Cuba's Minister of Educa-

tion, Honorable Jose Ramon Fernandez, who gave a pre-

sentation on the improvement in quality of Cuban educa-

tion since the Cuban Revolution.

Following Señor Fernandez's discussion, at 3:15 p.m.,

Eusebio Azcue was interviewed by the Committee staff re-

presentative.

Azcue was questioned extensively about

Oswald's

alleged trip to Mexico City, Oswald's alleged

visits to the Cuban Consulate, and Señor Azcue's alleged

argument with

Lee Harvey Oswald. 1186/

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At 7:30 p.m., April l, 1978, Messers. Escartin

and Hernandez accompanied the House Select Committee

staff for dinner and show to the Tropicana Club which,

prior to the Revolution, was operated by organized

crime. The Tropicana Club is presently run by the

Cuban government.

At 11:00 a.m. on April 2, 1978, the Committee

staff again met with Senen

Buergo, Ricardo Escartin,

Felipe Villa, Aramis Guetierrez and Juanita Vera. Santo

Trafficante, Jack Ruby and Mexico City were the major

areas of discussion. 1187/ This session terminated at

1:00 p.m.

At 4:50 p.m., the morning's meeting resumed.

During the afternoon session, the major areas of dis-

cussion

was the alleged pro-Castro involvement in the

assassination. 1188/

At 9:15 a.m., April 3, 1978, the Committee staff

met with the cuban officials for a final work session.

During this session, the intelligence agencies and

general questions derived from the questionnaire which

the Committee had provided to the cuban government

were the major areas of discussion. 1189/ During the

session, the Committee staff and Cuban officials also

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exchanged listings of pending material which might be

covered during a subsequent trip to Cuba by HScA repre-

sentatives and Congressmen. 1190/

At 6:00 p.m. the Committee staff met with presi-

dent Fidel Castro Ruz who assured the Committee that

neither he nor his government had any involvement in the

assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations staff

departed Havana, Cuba at 10:00 a.M., April 4, 1978,

arriving in Washington, D.C. at 4:30 p.m.

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Appendix 2: HSCA Procedural Write-up Mexico Trip

House Select. Committee on Assassinations staffers

Gary Cornwell, Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap

arrived at the

Mexico City airport at 8:30 p.m., May

30, 1978. (All times are Mexico City times, unless

otherwise specified.) They were met and escorted through

Customs by David Patton, an employee of the United

States Embassy.

The following morning, May. 31, 1978 the HSCA

representatives met with U.S. Embassy Political Officer

Richard Howard concerning procedure. Mr. Howard sche-

duled a meeting at 11:15 a.m. with the Chief of the CIA

Station in Mexico City. This meeting was preliminary

in nature and concerned procedures regarding arrangement

of the interviews of ex-CIA employees in Mexico.

At 12:00 noon, the HSCA representatives and Richard

Howard met representatives of the Government of Mexico.

The Mexican representatives were: 1) Dr. Jesus Yanes,

Advisor to the Attorney General's Executive Officer;

2) Fernando Baeza, Chief Administrative Officer for the

Attorney General; and 3) Commandate Florentino Ventura,

Chief of the Mexican Federal Police. The Mexicans

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informed the staff members at this meeting that they had

located Silvia Duran, Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran and

Pedro Gutierrez Valencia 1192/ and that each person

was willing to be interviewed by the HSCA representatives.

procedure for conduct of the interviews was also dis-

cussed at this meeting.

The Mexican government decided that the initial

interview

would be an informal contact with the witnesses

in which the Committee's objectives would be described.

The witnesses' statements would be formalized at a later,

taped interview. The Mexican officials informed the

HSCA staff members that they had been unable to locate

Oscar Contreras, 1193/ Elena Garro de Paz, and Elenita

Garro de Paz. 1194/ The Mexican Government had not had

contact with the Garros since 1968. The Mexicans said

that they were trying to locate the Garros through

the Foreign Ministry since Elena's ex-husband, Octavio

Paz, had once been

an important person in that ministry.

The Mexicans asked that we determine the name of the

Mexican Government contact during 1964 with the Warren

Commission

so that they could locate their records in

the Archives.

The Mexican officials left to set up the preliminary

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interviews with witnesses. The preliminary interviews

were conducted by Gary Cornwell. HSCA staff members

Dan Hardway, Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap were present

during Cornwell's questioning. The Mexican Government

was represented by Dr. Jesus Yañes, Commandante Floren-

tino Ventura,

and Jesus Meixueiro Kanty, second in com-

mand to Ventura. Pedro Gutierrez Valencia was inter-

viewed at 2:30 p.m. Ruben Duran was

interviewed at

5:00 p.m. Horacio Duran was

interviewed at 5:30 p.m.

Silvia Duran was interviewed at 6:15 p.m.

At 9:30 a.m. on June l, 1978, the HSCA staff re-

presentatives met with the Mexican police representatives.

The HSCA staff requested 1) the records of the company

that employed Gutierrez Valencia in 1963; press clippings

of the Mexican newspaper coverage of Oswald and Silvia

Duran (attached); 3) once again, an interview with Oscar

Contreras; 4) individual files on Elena Garro de Paz

and Silvia Duran; 5) evidence related to Silvia Duran's

assertion that Oswald was at the Cuban Embassy on one

day only; 6) an interview with Deba Garro de Guerrero

Galvan; 1195/ 7) an interview with Eunice Odio; 1196/

9) an interview with Emilio Carballido; 1197/ and

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HSCA also asked to be shown the Cuban Consulate.

The Mexican representatives informed the HSCA

staff that Victor Rico Galan had, at one time, been

arrested on political charges but that he was subse-

quently pardoned by either Diaz Ordaz or Luis Eche-

varria. 1199/ The Mexicans said that they were search-

ing for all files and newspaper articles requested

• by the HSCA.

The Mexican officials also offered their obser-

vations orally on the preliminary interviews conducted

the previous day. They pointed out that they found it

strange that Silvia had told Oswald he could not travel

while in Cuba. They wondered what Duran was trying to

tell Oswald and whether she thought that Oswald had

some objective in going to Cuba other than that ascribed

by the popular version. They also considered the manner

in which Silvia obtained employment at the Cuban Consu-

late unusual. Generally they noted that Silvia and

her brothers seemed to have almost programmed responses

and a defensive demeanor. They pointed out, however,

that all the Durans had been very interested in talking

to us. In their opinion, Ruben Duran was the most

credible of those interviewed by the HSCA the previous

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At this point, a Mexican official who had been

checking the computer records informed us that Victor

Rico Galan had died.

HSCA staff members provided the Mexican authori-

ties with

the names of the Mexican officials who had

been involved in the investigation in 1963.

HSCA staff members met again with the Mexican po-

lice authorities at 10:00 a.m. on June 2, 1978. At

this time, the Mexican police provided the copies of the newspaper

clippings on the assassination of John F. Kennedy from the

Excelsior. HSCA staff members asked if the Mexicans

could persuade the newspapers to reveal the sources : :

of their stories about Oswald and Silvia Duran. The

Mexican officials' responsewas negative. The Mexican

officials informed

the HSCA staff members that most of

the data we wanted from the files was in their security

Service files. The Mexican officials working with

the HSCA explained that they were the Mexican equivalent

of the FBI and that the Security Service was the Mexican.

equivalent of the CIA; hence there was the usual bureau-

cratic problem involved in obtaining access to the Se-

curity Service's files. The Mexicans informed the HSCA

• representatives that Emilio Carballido had been

located;

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that Deba Garro could not be located; and that there

was no record of anyone named Eunice Odio. HSCA repre-

sentatives told the Mexican officials that odio, who

was either Costa Rican or Guatemalan, had been the

mistress of Emilio Carballido. The assassination

and the reaction of the Mexican people to it was

discussed.

At 1:00 p.m., HSCA staff members conducted an

interview at the United States Embassy in connection

with the CIA aspects of the Mexico City investigation.

At 2:30, Gary Cornwell discussed problems with

the Chief of the Mexico City CIA Station. He requested

that the COS cable Headquarters regarding restrictions

placed on the HSCA staff in Mexico.

At 6:00 p.m., the HSCA staff members, accompanied

by Jesus Meixuerio Kanty and his assistant, Honorio

Escondon, met with the assistant chief of the Mexican

Security

Service Nazar.

Mr. Nazar gave an oral resume

of the interviews which Mexican officials conducted in

1963 of Silvia, Horatio and Ruben Duran and Betty Serratos.

Mr. Nazar said that the files had to be formally re-

quested before he could consider releasing them. He

suggested

that we secure statements admissible in United

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States courts from the witnesses whom we wished to

interview.

Mr. Nazar suggested that our best investi-

gatory avenue would be to concentrate on Oswald's inter-

rogation after his arrest on November 22nd. Mr. Nazar

had a very low opinion of Elena Garro de Paz' credibil-

ity. He felt that she confused fact and fiction.

June 3 and 4, 1978, were spent on CIA-related

aspects of the Mexico City investigation. Two inter-

views were conducted. All interviews, with the excep-

tion of interviews with CIA personnel, were taped and

later transcribed.

At 11:00 a.m. on June 5, 1978, the HSCA staff

interviewed Horacio Duran for the record. 1200/ At

1:00 p.m., HSCA staff member Edwin Lopez and Mexican

officials Honorio Escondon and Dr. Alfonso Orozco

Gutierrez interviewed Pedro Gutierrez Valencia for

the record. 1201/ At 5:00 p.m., HSCA staff members in-

terviewed Lynn Duran, aka Lydia Duran, for the record. 1202/

On June 6, 1978 at 11:00 a.m., the HSCA staff in-

terviewed Ruben Duran for the record. 1203/ At 1:00 p.m.,

the staff representatives met with Commandate Ventura.

The staff representatives agreed to supply the Mexicans

with questions for two witnesses, Oscar Contreras and

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Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, who could not then be inter-

Viewed. 1204/ Commandate Ventura authorized Honorio

Escondon to interview Oscar Contreras Lartigue and

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller. At 5:00 p.m., the wife of

Ruben Duran, Betty Serratos, 1205/ was interviewed for

the record. At 5:45 p.m., Silvia Duran was interviewed

for the record. 1206/

The HSCA staff representatives left Mexico City

at 8:30 a.m. on June 7, 1978, arriving in Washington,

D.C. at 5:30 p.m., Washington time.

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Appendix 3: HSCA Procedural Write-up

Mexico Trip 2

House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez

and Harold Leap traveled to Mexico City on August 7,

1978. The staff members were met by David T. Patton,

a State Department official, at the Mexican airport

at 10:15 p.m.

Mr. Patton then checked the staffers into

Room 1754 at the Maria Isabel Hotel.

Mr.

Patton informed the staff members that Larry Sternfield

CIA Chief of Station in Mexico City, wished to see us

at 8:30 a.m. the following

morning:

On Tuesday, August 8, 1978, Committee staffers

met with Larry Sternfield. He informed the staffers

that the two individuals the Committee wished to inter-

view, Daniel Flores, 1207/ aka Luis Aparicio, and Ramon

Alvarez Duran, 1208/were now available.

At 9:30 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff mem-

bers

interviewed Danny Flores. 1209/ The interview

ended at approximately 10:15 a.m.

Committee staff members returned to Mr. Sternfield

office. Mr. Sternfield stated that it appeared that the

Government of Mexico had only been able to locate two

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witnesses for the Committee, Oscar Contreras Lartigue 1210/

and

Noe W. Palomares. 1211/ Sternfield asked the

staff members to whom they wished to speak. The Commit-

tee staff members explained that they would like to

interview LICHANT 1, 1212/ LICOOKIE I, 1213/ LITAMIL 7, 1214/

LITAMIL 9, 1215/ and LIRING 3, 1216/ Mr. Sternfield

then stated that it appeared that the House Select

Committee on Assassinations had already asked the Mexi-

cans to locate the individuals listed above.

Mr. Sternfield stated that the HSCA's interview

with Ramon Alvarez Duran was considered "highly sensi-

tive." He explained that three rooms at a nearby hotel

would be used. In one room, Ramon Alvarez Duran would

sit, Committee staff members would sit in a second room

and two CIA personnel officers would insure that the

equipment worked properly in a third room. Mr. Stern-

field then phoned Mr. Niles Gooding, who had been sent

to the Mexico City Station from Headquarters to arrange

the procedures for the interviews.. Mr. Gooding ex-

plained that in 1977 Stansfield Turner had created a

new position at Headquarters to insure that important

sensitive meetings were within the guidelines previously

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arranged. Mr. Gooding stated that the Central Intelli-

gence Agency had been under greater Congressional scrutiny

the past two years. Therefore, Director Turner, in

order to demonstrate the Agency's good faith, had en-

gaged a retired Army officer to act as liaison at

sensitive interviews by Congressional representatives.

Mr. Gooding then explained that the HSCA staff would be

escorted by two CIA personnel to the interview with

Ramon Alvarez Durant.

At 10:55 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff

members interviewed Ramon Alvarez Durant. 1217/

At 12:30 p.m., Committee staff members telephoned

Captain Fernandez Ventura Gutierrez. His secretary

explained that Mr. Ventura was not in the office, but

that she would have him call us when he returned. At

6:30 p.m., since Mr. Ventura had not yet returned the

staffer's call, they again called his office. His se-

cretary apologized for Mr. Ventura and explained that

he had not yet returned to thie office and she assured us that

Mr. Ventura would telephone upon his return. At 9:15 p.m.,

Dr. Jesus Yanez, the Assistant to the official mayor,

telephoned the staff members explaining that Mr. Ventura

was very busy on an important assignment and asked us

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to visit the Police Station known as the Procuraduria

General at 11:00 a.m. the following morning.

At 10:15 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff

members met with State Department Official Richard

Howard to alert him that the Committee would request

the Mexican officials to make Silvia Duran available

in Washington for an HSCA hearing. Mr. Howard explained

that once we had permission from the Mexican government,

the State Department would insure that she was in

Washington when necessary.

At 11:00 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff

members met with Dr. Jesus Yañes and Ciprianio Martinez

Novoa.

Mr. Yanes told Committee staff members that

Ciprianio Martinez Nova, the Mexican agent in charge,

would try to aid us in all our interviews. Mr. Martinez

then

briefed the Committee staff members on their up-to-

date progress:

Oscar Contreras Lartigue had been located and pre-

interviewed by Mr. Martinez in Tampico, Mexico. The

Committee would fly to Tampico on Friday, August 11,

1978 at 7;35 a.m. to interview him.

Noe W. Palomares had been located and could be

interviewed during the afternoon of Thursday, August 10,

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1978 at his office, Cerrada de la Presa 4. His phone number,

595-0891, was made available to the Committee.

June Cobb Sharp received a tourist permit, number

72781, on June 27, 1947. She entered Mexico through

Nuevo. Lardo, Texas. She requested but was denied permission

by the

Mexican government to represent the magazine, Modern

Mexico.

On June 21, 1948, she received a courtesy permit,

number 25556. She disappeared in 1954 and never returned

to Mexico.

The Committee staffers did not tell the Mexicans that

the House Select Committee on Assassinations had evidence

from

review of June Cobb's 201 file that she was in Mexico

in the sixties.

Eunice Odio Infante, a Costa Rican, received a

three-month tourist permit from the Mexican government

on February 9, 1964. She remained in Mexico, illegally

residing at Nacas-45-a, until 1972. She applied to write

for the Excelsior magazine on many different occasions,

but was

rejected every time. In 1972, Ms. Odio married

a Comminist painter, Rudolfo Sanabria Gonzalez and moved

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to Rio Neba-16 Apartment 40. On May 24, 1972, Ms. Odio

was found dead in her bathtub. The official presiding

at her

autopsy concluded that Ms. Odio had poisoned

herself.

Emilio Carballido Fontanes was in Carcas, Venezuela,

on vacation and

scheduled to return to Mexico in early

September.

His address is Constituyentes 207. His phone

number is 515-8345.

Consuelo Esperon's (LITAMIL 7) personnel record in

Mexico could not be located. When the Mexican officials

inquired about

her at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City

prior to the committee's trip, no one at the office

remembered that she had worked there. Committee staff

members were told that Esperon was probably dead. No basis

was given for the Mexican government's conclusion.

Carlos Jurado J. Delmar (LIRING 3) was born in Cuba

on November

3, 1927. He entered Mexico July l, 1965 and

taught Graphics and Art at U.N.A.M. until January 1, 1968

when he disappeared. The Mexican officials assumed that he

returned to Cuba.

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General

Jesus Jose Clark Flores 1218/ died in the

early 1970's.

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller, 1219/ Academic Coordinator

at the School of Interior Design, had not yet been located.

Luis. Alberue Suoto (LITAMIL 9) lives at Michelet #7,

Apartment #301, Colonia Aneura, Mexico City. His phone

number is 545-9947. The landlady at his apartment explained

to the Mexican

officials that Mr. Alberue had left town

hurriedly on Monday, August 7, 1978. Mr. Martinez, wishing

to know when he returned, had placed a piece of scotch tape

on the bottom right edge of his door. Mr. Martinez explained

that he checked it every four hours and would notify us if

Alberue returned before we left.

Manuel Calvillo (LICHANT 1) did not live at Cauhtemoc

877-5 as the Committee had stated. The landlady for the

past twenty-five years at the apartments told Mr. Martinez

that Manuel Calvillo had never resided there. Committee

staff members explained that Calvillo went by a pen name

which would be forwarded to the Mexican officials the

following morning.

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When Committee staff members inquired whether Ms.

Silvia Tirado Bazan could testify at an HSCA hearing,

the Mexican officials stated that they would have an

answer for the staffers by Friday morning. The Mexican

officials explained that they would have to speak to her

to insure that she was willing to travel to Washington.

On Thursday, August 10, 1978, at 11:00 a.m. the

Committee staff members met with Dr. Jesus Yanez, Agent

Ciprianio Martinez Novoa, Captain Florentino Ventura

Gutierrez and Attorney General Licensiado, Manuel Calvillo's

"pen name" was given to the Mexicans who stated that they

would check it with the landlady at his alleged apartment

building.

Committee staffers returned to their hotel room with

Agent Ciprianio Martinez

Novoa after the meeting. Agent

Martinez attempted without success to telephone Oscar

Contreras Lartigue to inform him of our visit. At 3:30 p.m.,

Agent Martinez finally reached Mr. Contreras' child who

informed him that Mr. Contreras was not in Tampico. He

had traveled to Mexico City for a Partido Republicano

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Institucional convention. When Agent Martinez asked the child

if he knew where his father was staying in Mexico City,

he responded that he did not. Agent Martinez explained

to the child that he would call at a later time to speak

to his mother.

Agent Martinez telephoned Noe W. Palomares at 4:00

p.m. and arrange an interview for 6:30 p.m. that evening.

Mr. Martinez asked Committee staff members to meet him at

his office at the Procuraduria General at 6:00 p.m.

At 6:00 p.m., August 10, 1978, Committee staff members

met Agent Ciprianio Martinez at the Procuraduria General.

Martinez then drove the HSCA representatives to Mr. Palomares'

office. At 6:30 p.m., Committee staff members interviewed

Noe W. Palomares. 1270/

Following the interview, Agent Martinez returned to

the Maria Isabel Hotel with Committee staff members. He

attempted to reach

Mrs. Contreras telephonically at Tampico

twice without success. At 9:45 p.m., he finally contacted

her.

Mrs. Contreras told Agent Martinez that Mr. Oscar

Contreras had told her that he would try to get a room

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at either the Hotel Regis or Hotel San Francisco. Mrs.

Contreras explained that since there were a few conven-

tions scheduled in

Mexico City that weekend she could

not assure that he would be at either hotel. Mrs. Contreras

told Agent Martinez that she would notify him if her

husband should call.:

Mr. Martinez called both hotels and inquired whether

Oscar Contreras

Lartigue was registered. He was not

registered at either; they were completely booked up.

Mr. Martinez attempted to reach by telephone Silvia

Tirado Byazan at ther home to ask her whether she would be

willing to travel to Washington to testify at a HSCA hearing

and

to

ask if she knew where Mr. Ernesto Lehfeld Miller

could be located.

She was not at home, however.

Agent Martinez explained that he would attempt to

locate Oscar Contreras Lartigue at the hotel where the

Partido Republicano Institucional (Institutional Republican

Party) was holding its convention early the following morning;

after which

he would meet the staff members at 9:30 a.m. at

their hotel room.

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At 9:45 a.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez met

Committee staffers at their hotel room and explained that

he was unable to locate Mr. Contreras Lartigue at the

convention.

Mr. Martinez then left to check the where-

abouts of Mr. Alberue Suoto and Silvia Tirado Bazan.

at 12:30 p.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez

returned to the Committee staff members' hotel room. He

telephoned Mrs. Contreras in Tampico who stated that her

husband had not telephoned her since she had last spoken

to Agent Martinez. At 1:50 p.m., another agent, Honorio

Escondon, telephoned Agent Martinez at the Committee staffers'

hotel room to inform him that Luis Alberue Suoto must be

back in town because the scotch tape placed at the base of

his entranceway door was no longer in place. AT 1:55 p.m.,

Agent Martinez telephoned Luis Alberue Suvoto. During the

phone conversation, Alberue denied that he had worked at

the Cuban Embassy in the Sixties, stated that he knew nothing

about the assassination, and declined the Committee staff

members' request to interview him.

At 2:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Agent Martinez telephoned

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Silvia Duran. Agent Martinez then gave the telephone to

Committee staffer Lopez.. Mr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado

whether she would be willing to testify sometime in September

at a Committee hearing in Washington; she answered affirma-

tively. She stated that September 13th, 14th and 15th

would not be "good days" because the Mexican Revolution

celebration would be taking place and she was a planner and

participant. When

• Mr. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado if she knew

Mr. Ernesto Lehfeld Miller's phone number, she stated that

she did not, but she stated that if we telephoned her

husband Horatio at either 516-0398 or 515-8621, he would

be able to help us.

At 2:15 p.m., Committee staffer Lopez telephoned

Horatio Duran, who have him Ernesto Lehfeld Miller's office

phone number, 548-4839. At 2:20 p.m., Lopez telephoned

Mr. Miller and arranged a meeting for 9:00 p.m. that

evening.

At 2:30 p.M., Agent Martinez telephoned Captain Ventura

to report on his progress, pertaining to his work with the

HSCA.

When Martinez told Ventura that he had located Alberue,

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Ventura asked Martinez if he was alone. When Agent Martinez

lied and stated that he was alone, Ventura told him that

he should under no circumstances allow us to interview

Alberue. When Agent Martinez completed his phone call,

he said, "I don't understand why nobody wants you to talk

to him."

At 9:00 p.m., August 11, 1978, Committee staffers

interviewed Ernesto Lehfeld Miller 1221/

At 11:15 a.m., August 12, 1978, Committee staffer

Lopez called Luis Alberue Suoto at his home. When Mr. Lopez

identified himself, Mr. Alberue immediately stated that

he knew nothing. He further stated that he never worked

for the Cuban Embassy. When Lopez explained to him that

employees at the Cuban Embassy had stated that he had been

employed there, Mr. Suoto hung up. Mr. Alberue's voice

quivered throughout the short talk:

At 11:45 a.m., Silvia Tirado called Lopez and stated

that she had thought all night about travelling to Washington.

She said she had seen a report in the newspapers in which

Azcue had stated that the man who visited the Cuban Consulate

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in 1963 was not Lee Harvey Oswald. She stated that Azcue

had only seen Oswald once while she had seen Oswald at

least three

times.

Ms. Duran further stated

that if she testified in washington and the Committee

concluded that she was lying she would be crucified when

she returned to Mexico. Mr. Lopez reassured her and explained

that when he returned to Washington he would send her a long

letter explaining procedures.

At 12:05 p.m., Agent Martinez met the Committee staff

members at the airport. He stated that Contreras and Calvillo

had not been located. The Committee staffers gave Martinez

a list of questions to ask Oscar Contreras Lartigue. Agent

Martinez stated that he would mail the results of the interview

to Lopez at the Committee offices in Washington: The

Committee never received any interview reports from the

Mexican government.

The Committee staff members left Mexico City at 1:55 p.m.

and arrived at Washington's Dulles Airport at 10:35 p.m.

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Appendix 4: HSCA Procedural Write-up Cuba Trip 2

On August 25, 1978, Congressman Richardson Preyer

and HSCA staff members G. Robert Blakey and Edwin Juan

Lopez Soto traveled to Cuba from Miami at 8:25 a.m. on an

Air-Taxi Service charter plane. The Committee representa-

tives arrived in Cuba at 10:15 a.m. They were met by the

Minister of Justice, Armãndo Torres Santrayll; Washington

Consul Ricardo Escartin; American Department official,

Senen

Buergo; and translator, Nellie Ruiz de Zarade. The

Committee representatives were escorted to their suite,

room number 2003, at the Hotel Riviera at 11:00 a.m.

At 12:15 p.m., the Committee representatives met

with Ricardo Escartin, Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and

translators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade. Also

present were two Cuban stenographers. Senen Buergo, the

spokesperson, welcomed the Committee representatives to

Cuba and thanked the Committee for its correspondence.

Mr. Buergo apologized on behalf of the Cuban government

for the postponement of a previously scheduled trip of

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May 24th and 25th, 1978. Mr. Buergo stressed that in

his opinion

there was a conspiracy to link Cuba to the

assassination of John F. Kennedy. At that point, he

handed four files to Congressman Richardson Preyer. The

files consisted of: a) material concerning Santo Trafficante;

b) a letter dated 25 November 1963 from Hernandez Armas

(Mexican Ambassador in 1962 to Raul Roa (Minister of Foreign

Relations in 1963); c) the results of the Cuban government's

research into mis-information linking the Cuban Government

to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; and d)

the report of the Investigative Committee of the International

Tribunal of the Eleventh Festival reporting on the defamation

campaign to link Cuba to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Mr. Buergo stated that both Eusebio Azcue Lopez and

Alfredo Mirabal Diaz would that day be made available for

interviews. Mr. Buergo stated that Nilo Otero 1222/ would

be made available for interview the following day, 26 August

1978. Mr. Buergo stated that Rogelio Rodriguez 1223/ was

presently stationed in West Germany.. Buergo stated that

Ricardo Escartin previously interviewed Mr. Rodriguez and

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was told by Rodriguez that he had had no contact with Lee

Harvey Oswald. Mr. Buergo stated that if the Committee

still desired to interview Rodriguez, he would be made

available to the: Committee. Mr. Buergo stated that an

interview with Rolando Cubela Secades 1224/ would be

arranged.

Mr. Buergo asked if the Committee was still interested

in interviewing Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez. 1225/ Mr.

Buergo stated that the Cuban government had no record of

a citizen

named Griselle Rubio. 1226/ Mr. Buergo inquired

whether the Committee representatives were interested in

watching the videotaped statements of James Wilcott 1227/

and Phillip Agee 1228/ at the Tribunal. 1229/ Congressman

Preyer responded that the Committee's representatives would

want to view the Wilcott and Agee videotaped statements.

Mr. Buergo stated that our schedule included dinner

with the Minister of Justice at 8:00 p.m. on 25 August 1978,

fishing on 27 August 1978 (Sunday), and a farewell dinner

on 28 August 1978.

Congressman Preyer thanked the Cuban officials for

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making both the documents and witnesses available to the

Select Committee.

Professor Blakey stated that the Committee was no

longer interested in interviewing Rolando Cubela. Mr.

Blakey stated that Griselle Rubio had been found in Miami

and interviewed by a Committee investigator. Mr. Blakey

stated that the Committee wanted to interview Oreste Guillermo

Ruiz Perez for two reasons: He worked at the Cuban Embassy

in September 1963 when Oswald allegedly visited the Cuban

compound in Mexico City; and, he is married to the cousin

of a counter-revolutionary, Antonio Veciana Blanch. Mr.

Blakey stated that Rogelio Rodriguez need not be interviewed.

Captain Felipe Villa stated that the Cuban

government,

relying on the seriousness and honesty of the committee's

work, thought that the Committee should have knowledge of

Cuebela's statements. Mr. Villa stated that the Committee

still needed

to

provide the Cuban government with the

following: a) a workable formula on counter-revolutionaries

that could be used by the cuban government to aid the

Committee in its investigation of such organizations;

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b) copies of Lee Harvey Oswald's signatures that the

Cuban

government could use to perform its own hand-

writing comparison

test; and c) E. Howard Hunt's aliases;

Mr. Blakey stated that examples of Lee Harvey Oswald's

handwriting would be forthcoming. Mr. Blakey stated that

the Committee had not yet developed a formula for identifying

counter-revolutionary groups active against the Cuban

government in 1963 or a method for providing E. Howard Hunt's

aliases. Mr. Blakey stressed that both these areas would

be discussed in the Committee's final report.

At 1:00 p.m. the first work session ended.

At 3:15 p.m. House Select Committee on Assassinations

representatives interviewed Juan Nilo Otero in Room 2003 of

the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson

preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Senen

Buergo, Ricardo Escartin, Captain Felipe Villa, translator

Juanita Vera and two stenographers. 1230/ The interview.

ended

at 5:15 p.m.

At 8:00 p.m. the Committee's representatives met

Senen Buergo and translator Nellie Ruiz de Zarade at the

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Hotel

Riviera's lobby. The group was chauffered to the

Bodeguita del Medio--one of Cuba's most famous restaurants--

where they dined with the Minister of Justice, Armando

Torres. Santrayll.

At 10:15 a.m., 26 August 1978, Select Committee

representatives interviewed Alfredo Mirabal Diaz 1231/ in

Room 2003 at the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman

Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto,

Senen Buergo, Captain Felipe Villa, Ricardo Escartin,

translators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade and

two stenographers. The interview ended at 12:45 p.m.

After the Mirabal interview Mr. Buergo asked whether

the HSCA representatives wished to interview Jose Verdacia

Verdacia, 1232/ the Warden of Trescornia while Santos Traffi-

cante was a detainee. When Congressman Richardson Preyer

stated

that the Committee would indeed be interested in

interviewing Jose Verdacia Verdacia, Mr. Buergo stated that

he would be available for an interview at 3:00 p.m.

At 3:30 p.m., HSCA representatives interviewed

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Jose Verdacia Verdacia in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.

Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert

Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Senen Buergo, Captain

Felipe Villa, Ricardo Escartin, Arais Gutierrez, trans-

lators Juanita Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade, and two

stenographers. 1233/ The interview ended at 4:20 p.m.

On Sunday morning, 27. August 1978, the Cuban Government's

representatives took the Select Committee representatives

to Veradero Beach.

At 8:35 p.m. Select Committee representatives interviewed

Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez at the Hotel Internacional at

Veradero Beach. Present were Congressman Richardson

Preyer,

G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juana Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin,

Captain Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo and translator Juanita

Vera. 1234/ Because there were no stenographers present

the Cuban representatives tape-recorded the interview. The

interview ended at 9:20 p.m.

On 28 August 1978, at 10:25 a.m., HSCA representatives

interviewed Rolando Cubela Secades in Room 2003 at the Hotel

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Riviéra. Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer,

G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Ricardo Escartin,

Captain Felipe Villa, Senen Buergo, translator Juanita

Vera and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade, and two stenographers.

Also present was Antonio Hernandez who escorted Mr. Cuebla

from prison to the Hotel. 1235/ The interview ended at

11:45 p.m.

At 3:25 p.m., HSCA representatives interviewed Maria

Teresa Proenza y Proenza in Room 2003 of the Hotel Riviera.

Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey,

Edwin Juan Lopez Soto, Richardo Escartin, Captain Felipe

Villa, Senen Buergo, Antonio Hernandez, translator Nellie

Ruiz de Zarade and two stenographers. 1236/ The interview

ended at 4:15 p.m.

On 29 August 1978, at 9:30 a.m., the HSCA representatives

met the Cuban delegation for a final work session in Room 2003

of the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson

Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juan Lopez, Ricardo Escartin,

Senen Buergo, Captain Felipe Villa, translators Juanita Vera

and Nellie Ruiz de Zarade and two stenographers. 1237/

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The Cuban delegation spokesperson, Senen Buergo,

explained that Mr. Manuel Piniero 1238/ was out of the

country and therefore an

interview could not be arranged.

Mr. Buergo explained that the Cuban delegation had located

Luisa Calderon Carralero 1239/ but because she was ill an

interview

could not be arranged. Mr. Buergo suggested

that the HSCA forward questions to the Cuban Government.

Ms. Calderon's answers would then be forwarded to the

Committee.

Mr. Buergo explained that Raul Roa 1240/ had a very

Mr. Roa felt that he could not add any more

busy schedule.

information to what Nilo Otero had already provided and declined

the interview.

Material handed to the HSCA representatives at this

time included:

a) a list of persons whom the Cuban delegation

believed to have had close relations with Santo

Trafficante;

b) photographs depicting what the Cuban government

believed to be a Central Intelligence Agency

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photographic surveillance base targeted

against

the Cuban Consulate and Embassy in

Mexico City during 1963;

c) an

essay entitled "Imperialism's Political,

Economic,

and Military Organizations

and

Agencies of Crime, such as the CIA" and

d) an

article entitled "Finally We Have Eliminated

That Pinto in the White House, said Bob, When

He Heard About JFK's Assassination"

The final work session ended at 11:00 a.m.

At 1:00 p.m., the Cuban delegation escorted the Com-

mittee's representatives to the airport. At the airport

they were bid farewell by the Minister of Justice, Armando

Torres Santrayll, Senen Buergo, Juanita Vera and Nellie

Ruiz de Zarade.

At 3:30 p.m., the HSCA representatives and Washington

Consul, Ricardo Escartin, departed Cuba.

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Appendix 5: Biography: Elena Garro De Paz

Elena Garro de Paz was born of Spanish parents in

Puebla, Mexico on December 11, 1917. (All information in

this section

culled from Biography Data form prepared by

Charles Thomas.) Ms. Garro attended the National Autonomous

University of Mexico and later did graduate work at Berkley

in California

and at the University of Paris. In 1963,

Elena had long been married to Octavio Paz, a career

diplomat who is also one of Mexico's finest poets and leading

intellectuals. When Octavio was named Mexican Ambassador

to India, the couple separated by mutual consent. Elena's

daughter, also named Elena, has always resided with her

mother.

Since Elena spent seventeen years of her early life

in Europe she had a rather un-Mexican objectivity about her

native land and had a reputation for being one of its more

articulate detractors. At the same time, Elena was considered

emotionally committed to many aspects of Mexican life and

made an

important contribution to its artistic development

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In the 1960's Elena became a significant writer.

Hogar Solido, El Rey Mago, La Senora en su Balcon, Ventura

Allende, Andaise por las, Ramas, Parada Empresa, and El Viaje

are plays that have had appreciative audiences in Europe,

where they were translated into German, as well as in Mexico.

Ms. Garro's short stories are collected in a volume called

La Semana de Colores. The Literacy Supplement of the London

Times has called her novel, Los Recuerdos de Porenir, "a

splendid success. " Critics have said of her: "For Elena

Garro, there is no frontier between

reality and fantasy;

in any case, the latter is a second reality--perhaps more

intense--to which one may penetrate without passport or

forewarning, thanks to the effectiveness of a literature

fired with passion, flavor and life." Many people who

knew Elena have asserted that the frontier between reality

and fantasy is also difficult for her to distinguish in

real

life. (Biography Data Form on Elena Garra de Paza

prepared by Charles Thomas.)

Ms. Garro, for many years, was an active worker in

the Confederacion Nactional Campesina (CNC), the agrarian

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arm of the Partido Reformista (PRI). Because Ms. Garro

was

a tireless propagandist and agitator on behalf of

the poorer Mexican peasants, she was on close personal

terms with and enjoyed the respect of peasant leaders

from all over the country. (Ibid.)

Elena was considered a witty, urbane and opinionated

woman with an unflagging sense of humor. Her forthright

opinions and

sharp wit tended on occasion to ruffle feathers

in Mexico, but her important social, literacy, and political

connections

rendered her fairly immune from serious cunter-

attack until 1968. Then, Ms. Garro was forced to flee the

country with

her daughter, Elenita and her sister, Deba

Guerrero de Galvan, in the midst of the student strikes.

The House Select Committee on Assassinations has been unable

to determine the exact reason Ms. Garro had for fleeing

Mexico.

Before her disappearance from Mexico, Elena was well

disposed toward the United States and had been friendly

with Embassy officers. Her broad range of significant

personal

friends, the views of many important to the

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American Embassy, made her a useful Embassy target. (A

"useful Embassy target" is a person deemed important

enough because of acquaintances to merit frequent

contact, either witting or unwitting, with American

Embassy officials.)

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APPENDIX SIX: GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN REPORT.

Agent: A person who knowingly works for the CIA on a

contract or job basis.

Asset: A general term

for persons, not officers, used

by the CIA.

For example, both agents and sources

are assets. An asset is anyone used in an

operation or project, whether or not that is

aware

that he is being used.

Case officer: See Operations officer.

Coverage: Surveillance.

Cryptonym: A series of letters used by the CIA to iden-

tify someone or something while protecting that

person or things true identity. All the letters

in a cryptonym are capitalized. The first two

letters are assigned by the subject matter or

local to which the person or thing belongs.

The

rest of the cryptonym is randomly assigned. See

LIMITED for example.

The "LI" designates

that

the project was located in Mexico. 2) The planet

on which Superman was born.

Chronological file: A folder in which material is stored

in chronological order.

Usually used

for produc-

tion or communications type material.

Electronic intercept base: House, apartment, or building

that contains equipment

used in intercepting and

tapeing telephone conversations subject to

electronic surveillance.

FOIA:

Freedom of Information Act.

LIEMPTY: CIA cryptonym for photographic project aimed at

the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.

LIERODE: CIA cryptonym, pre-1964, for surveillance operation

aimed at the Cubans in Mexico City.

LILYRIC: CIA cryptonym assigned to one of the three bases

which provided photographic surveillance of the

Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.

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LIMERICK: CIA cryptonym meaning "Soviet".

LIMITED: CIA cryptonym of one of three bases which provided

photographic surveillance of the Soviet Embassy

in Mexico City.

LIONION: CIA cryptonym for photographic surveillance

operations aimed at the Cuban diplomatic com-

pound in Mexico City after July, 1964.

Listening post: See electronic intercept base.

Logs:

A list of photographs taken and the times they

were taken prepared by agents in the photographic

base houses:

Monitors: Mexican Army officers who worked in the elec-

tronic intercept base listening to conversations

on telephone lines subject to wiretaps and

summarizing those conversations they deemed

to be important.

Officer: CIA career employee.

Operation: A subpart of a project. Often used interchangably

with "project".

Operations officer: CIA career employee; term usually

used in connection with an employee with respon-

sibility for a particular operation or project.

Penetration agent: An agent who works inside a target

institution. For example, LITAMEL/9 worked for

the CIA in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

P file:

Designation assigned to a personality file in the

CIA's Mexico City Station.

A file for the

retention of information in written form arranged

according to individual's names.

Photographic base: House, apartment, or building used for

housing of photographic surveillance equipment and

the agents who operate it. Always located near

the target.

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Pitched: Made an effort to recruit as an agent, asset

or source.

Production: Materials or information generated by an

operation or project.

Project: A group or set of operations by the CIA aimed

specific person, institution of thing,

with the aim of collecting information, influ-

encing behavior, etc.

Project files: A folder for the retention of information

generated by, or relating to a project. Gene-

rally broken

down into four sub-files: Devel-

opment and plans, production; support; and

operations.

Psuedonym: False name

assigned to CIA officers for use

in communication channels.

Pulse camera: A camera

with a shutter that is automat-

ically tripped by a triggering device activated

by changes in light density.

Resuma: Daily summary of important conversations on

in the litering 0ot

surveilled telephone lines prepared by monitors

Selected Out: Phrase used when a Foreign Service officer

is retired after having been in one grade for the

maximum period of time and is not considered

qualified for promotion to a higher grade.

source: A person who either wittingly or unwittingly

provides information to the CIA.

Station: A CIA over-seas installation. It is the

Headquarters

for operations in a particular

country, and is usually located in the United

States Embassy in the capital of the country

in which it is situated.

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Target: A person, institution or thing at which a

project, operation or pitch is aimed.

VLS-2 trigger device: A machine which automatically

triggers the shutter of a camera when it

senses a change in light density.

Used along

with a

camera and a spotting scope in a "pulse

camera."

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APPENDIX SEVEN: LISTING OF CIA DOCUMENTS CITED.

Annual Fitness Report on Ann Goodpasture, 1/14/64.

Article, with note in margin, in Oswald P file, by

Robert S. Allen

and Paul Scott, "CIA Withheld

Vital Intelligence from Warren

Commission,"

10/21/64.

Blind Memorandum

entitled "Delay in sending the first

cable about Oswald."

Blind Demon, Source: Lie, ry/26053ald/Silvia Tirado

CIA Component Report on wiretap operations, "RSOLO

and ZRJOINT: Two Telephone Tap Operations, " Paul

Levister.

DIR 74830, 10/10/63.

(A "DIR" is a cable from Head-

quarters to a field

station.

In

this report the

field station is always Mexico City.

DIR 84886, 11/23/63.

DIR 84888, 11/23/63.

DIR 84916, 11/23/63.

DIR 85371, 11/28/63.

DIR 87770, 12/9/63, with attached note.

DIR 88680, 12/13/63.

DIR 90466, 12/21/63.

DIR 16823, 7/4/67.

Draft of letter

from Win Scott to John Barron, 11/25/70.

Foul Foe, The, by Winston Scott writing as lan Maxwell.

HMMA 4300, 3/12/56.

(An "HMMA"

is a dispatch from

Mexico City to Headquarters.

2091013

HMMA 14793, 4/8/60.

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НММА 21845, 7/30/63.

НММА 22005, 8/23/63.

НММА 22135, 9/13/63.

HMMA 22267, 10/8/63.

HMMA 22307, 10/18/63.

НММА 22433, 11/7/63.

НММА 22452, 11/7/63.

ИММА 22536, 11/9/63.

НММА 22726, 1/16/64.

НММА 23343, 4/30/64.

НММА 26006, 4/30/65.

HMMA 26160, 5/21/65.

HMMA 26414, 6/22/65.

HMMA 31303, 2/7/67.

HMMA 32243, 5/27/67.

HMMA 32497, 7/11/67.

HMMW 12725, 7/8/64. An "HMMW" is a dispatch from CIA

Headquarters

to

Mexico City.)

HMMW 13645, 5/13/65.

HMMW 15557, 6/14/67.

HMMW 15488, 5/18/67. (Mexico City Copy.)

Inspector General Report, 1977, Tab G-2.

Log Film

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entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J110) to 9 Dec 1963

(J163) from Archives-Job

#70.209 Box

#1, LIMITED

Production material.

Log Film 144, 10/1/63 through 10/3/63, in CIA file

entitled "LIMITED 17 July 63 (J110) to 9 Dec 1963

(J163) from Archives-Job

• # 70.209 Box # 1, LIMITED

Rroduction material.

LIONION Project Renewal Request, 1/1/66.

Memorandum entitled "Response to HSCA request of 25 July,

1978," 8/20/78.

Memorandum for the Record from W. David Slawson re: Trip

to Mexico City, 4/22/64.

Memorandum

from Chief DDP/PG to Chief of Operations/DDP,

2/3/61.

Memorandum from Chief of FI/OPS to Chief of Operations/

DDP, 1/8/60.

Memorandum from Chief/WHD, to COS/Mexico City, 12/30/63.

Memorandum from "JKB" re: Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67.

Memorandum from Shepanek to Scott Breckinridge, 7/31/78.

Memorandum from

Winston Scott to the files re: June

Cobb, 11/25/64.

Memorandum to Clark Anderson from Winston Scott, 11/27/63,

with seven

attachments.

Memorandum to DDP from Chief/WHD, 1/21/64.

Memorandum to the Legal Attache from the COS/ Mexico City,

7/5/67:

Memorandum

to the Ambassador from Winston Scott, 10/16/63,

re "Lee Oswald Contact with the Soviet Embassy."

Mexico City Investigation Chronology, Bulky # WX-7241,

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EXI 6453, 10/8/63.

(Mexico copy. A "MEXI" is a cable

from Mexico City.)

MEXI 6453, 10/9/63. (Headquarters copy.)

MEXI 6534, 10/15/63.

MEXI 7014, 11/22/63.

MEXI 7023, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7024, 11/23/63.

EXI 7025, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7029, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.

MEXI 7054, 11/24/63.

MEXI 7101, 11/27/63.

MEXI 7105, 11/27/63.

MEXI 7364, 12/12/63.

MEXI 9332, 5/6/64.

MEXI 9440, 6/19/64.

MEXI 5621, 12/16/65.

MEXI 5741, 12/29/65.

MEXI 1950, 6/29/67.

MEXI 1991, 7/5/67.

Note from Ann Goodpasture to Mexico City Station Cuban

Section, 2/3/66.

Note to Luis Echevarria, 11/23/63.

Notes made by A. Goodpasture for John Leader, IG Staff,

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re: "Background on Mexico Station Support. Assets

(Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies),"

2/10/77.

Project Renewal Request, 1/11/65, attachment to HMMA 25141.

Report on Oswald from John Scelso, C/WH/3, to James

Angleton, C/C1, 12/24/63.

Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 15979

11/18/60.

Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 17999,

10/31/61.

Review of Project

LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 20054,

10/18/62.

Review of Project LIEMPTY, attachment to HMMA 22387,

10/25/63.

Routing and Record Sheet for DIR 74830, 10/11/63.

Routing and Record Sheet for MEXI 7028, 11/23/63.

Routing and Record Sheet for MEXI 7033, 11/23/63.

Teletype

from the CIA to the State Department, FBI and

Navy,

DIR 74678, 10/10/63.

Transcript from Cuban Embassy, 9/27/63.

Transcripts from Russian Embassy, 9/27/63, 9/28/63,

10/1/63 and 10/3/63.

Undated Draft of 1977 CIA Staff Report, Tab F, "Mexico

Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies

(1963)."

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article that such a comparison was done.

Note also

the MEXI 7024 reported that HQ had all the available

information when in fact all conversations

were

reported in a later cable, MEXI 7033.

685/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

686/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

687/ See Section III, A, lj above.

688/ See Section III, A, 1, above.

688a/ Note to Luis Echevarria, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 444;

Cable re Oswald-Duran,

MEXI 7029, November 23, 1963, CIA

No. 441; Raymond Rocca

Chronology WX 7241, Entry 36,

November 23, 1963, CIA No. 635.

689/ Ibid.

690/ Ibid.

691/ See below.

692/ Note written by Winston Scott re phone call with John Scelso,

November 23, 1963; Chronology prepared by Raymond Rocca,

WX 7241, entry 37, November 23, 1963, CIA No. 635.

693/ Ibid.

694/ Ibid.

695/ Chief of Station phone call to Luis Echevarria, November 23,

1963, CIA No. 440; Flash Cable from Karamessines to

Mexico City Station, November 23, 1963, DIR 84916, CIA No.

403; Chronology of Raymond Rocca, entry 46, November 23,

1963, CIA No. 636.

696/ Blind Memo re Lee Harvey Oswald and Silvia Duran, November

26, 1963, CIA #473.

697/ Ibid.

698/ Cable from Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November

27, 1963, MEXI 7101, CIA

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699/ Cable from Mexico City Station to Director, December 12,

1963, MEXI 7364, CIA No. 557-558.

700/ Cable Mexico City Station to Headquarters, November 27,

1963, MEXI 7105, CIA No. 479; Chronology of Raymond

Rocca, November

27, 1963, entry no. 127, CIA No. 562.

701/ Cable from Headquarters to the Mexico City Station, November 28,

1963, DIR 85371, CIA No. 464; Chronology of Raymond Rocca,

Nov. 28, 1963, WX 7241, entry No. 141, CIA No. 658.

1383, 42 124

702/ CIA Cable from Headquarters to Mexico City Station, December

21, 1963, DIR 90466, CIA No. 549; Chronology of Raymond

Rocca, December 21, 1963, Entry No. 268, CIA No. 682.

703/ Ibid.

704/ Ibid. also see Section VI, B, 1.

705/ CE 2120, pp. 37-40.

706/ Supra, p. 186.

707/ Supra, p. 187.

707a/ Supra, p. 187.

707b/ Supra, p. 190

708/ Memorandum for the Record re Trip to Mexico City, from

W.

David Slawson, 4/22/64, pp. 39-40. Last Parenthetical

in the original.

709/ Ibia.

710/ HSCA Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document #011775, p.

17.

711/ Letter HSCA to Mexican govenment,

, JFK Document #

712/ HSCA interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Doc. #011775, p. 20.

713/ Ibid., p. 19-23.

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714/ Ibid., p. 19-23.

715/ Ibid., p. 23.

716/ Ibid., p. 24-25.

717/ Ibia., p. 28.

718/ Ibia., p. 30.

719/ Ibid., p. 29-30.

720/ Ibia., p. 30.

721/ Ibid., p. 29.

722/ Ibia., p. 45, 31.

123/ Ibia., p. 40.

724/ Ibid., p. 40-41.

725/ Ibid., p. 41.

726/ Ibid.

727/ Ibid.,

p. 42.

728/ Ibid., p. 43.

729/ Ibid.

730/ Ibia.

731/ Ibid., p. 42.

132/ 1b1a.,

p. 43.

733/ Ibia.,

p. 43, 51,

734/ Ibid.

735/ Ibid., p.

48.

736/ Ibia., p. 51:

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737/ Ibid

738/ Ibid., p. 96.

739/ Write-up: Wallace B. Rowton meeting with LIRING/3, May 26,

1967.

740/ Ibia.

741/ LIRING/3 was a

source the CIA rated reliable.

742/ Ibia.

743/ Ibid.

744/ Ibid.

745/ Ibid.

746/ LIRING 3's case officer's pseudonym.

747/ Ibid.

148/ Ibid.

749/ HMMA-32243, 5/27/67.

750/ See Section, VI, C, below.

751/ W -7241, entry no. 613.

752/ FBI, CIA, State Department.

753/ "Pitched" is a term used by the CIA to designate an attempt

to recruit an individual.

754/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 8.

See also

HSCA Testimony of Ann Goodpasture, 11/20/78,

p. 63.

755/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p.

8.

756/ Ibid.

757/ Ibid.

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758/ Memorandum for the Record on Trip to Mexico City, from

W. David Slawson, 4/22/64, pp. 22-23. Emphasis

added.

759/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 8.

760/ Extremely reliable source.

761/ HSCA Review of LITAMIL 9 file.

762/ HSCA Interview of David Phillips, 8/3/78, p. 9.

763/ Ibid.

764/ Ibid.

765/ Ibid.

766/ Ibid.

767/ Ibid.

768/ Summary of CIA file review of Silvia Duran.

769/ Personality.

770/ The HSCA requested of the CIA on August 20, 1978 an explanation

of why there was no "p" file on Silvia Duran, Luisa

Calderon Carralero, Teresa Proenza Proenza, Eusebio Azcue

Lopez, Guillermo Oresta, Ruiz Perez, Gilberto Policarpo

Lopez, Juan Manuel Calvillo Alonso

and June Viola Cobb Sharp

The agency responded the following on September 11, 1978:

Station index cards show the following information re

201 numbers and "p" numbers:

1) Silvia Duran (No info re "p" number)

2) Luisa Calderon Carralero P-8292 Destroyed

3)

Teresa Proenza Proenza (No info re "p" number)

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4) Eusebio Azcue Lopez P-6613 Destroyed

5) Guillermo Orestes Ruiz Perez (No info re "p" number)

6) No index card on Gilberto Policarpo Lopez, there

is an index card on one Gilberto Policarpo Lopez

which does not list any 201 or "p" number.

7) Juan Manuel Calvillo Alonso (No info re "p" number)

8) June Viola Cobb Sharp P-7381 Destroyed.

7 771/ HSCA Interview of Dan Neiscuir, 8/29/78, p. 1.

772/ Ibid.

773/ Ibia., p. 1.

774/ CIA, FBI, State Department.

775/ HSCA Testimony of Barney Hidalgo, 8/10/78, p. 16.

776/ Ibid.

777/ Ibid.

778/ Ibid.

779/ Warren Commission, p. 302.

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780/

The

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U.S.: relations with Cuba in 1963-1964 were not

very good.

See U.S. -Cuban Relations Section.

Also, Azcue traveled from Mexico to Cuba on November 18,

1963.

781/ Letter

from HSCA to Cuban government,

, JEK DOC.

782/ See Transcript Cuba Trip 1, April 1, 1978.

783/

'HSCA Interview of Eusebio Azcue,

Aprit 1, 1918, pP. 12-

21, JFK DOC. #

007005.

See p. 205

784/ Ibid.

785/ See Cuba procedural write-up trip 2.

786/ Letter HSCA to Cuban government,

, JEK DOC. #

787/ Mr. Azcue could not pinpoint. the exact dates of the visit.

788/ HSCA public hearing testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,

9/18/78, pp. 30-31.

789/ Ibid.

789-A/ Communist party membership card, Fair Play For Cuba

membership card, Soviet Union residence card, marriage

certificate with the name of his Russian wife.

789-B/ HSCA Public Hearing Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,

9/18/78, p. 5-30.

789-C/ Ibid., p. 29-30.

789-D/ Ibid., p. 30.

789-E/ Ibid., p. 20.

789-E/ Azcue could not pinpoint the exact date.

789-G/ HSCA Public Testimoy of Eusebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p: 32.

789-H/ Ibid., p. 33.

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789-I/ Ibid.

789-J/ Azue could not pinpoint the time of the phone call.

790/ HSCA Public Hearing Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez,

9/18/78, p. 34.

791/ Ibid., p. 35.

792/ 10:00 - 2:00

793/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez, 9/18/78,

p. 36.

794/ Ibid., p. 38.

795/ Ibid.

796/ Ibid.

798/ Mr. Mirabal could not pinpoint the exact dates of Oswald's

visit but opined that the second visit occurred on

September 27, 1963.

799/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,

p. 117.

800/ Ibid.

801/ Ibia., p. 118.

802/ Ibia., p. 120. 802a/ Ibia. p. 199 802b/ Ibid.

803/ WX 7241, P. 94, entry no. 430; Blind Memo dated 10/5/64.

804/ See appendix 5 for biography.

805/ WX 7241, P. 94, entry no. 430; Blind memo dated 10/5/64.

806/ Ibid.

807/ Ibid.

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808/ Ibid.

809/ Ibid.

810/ Ibid.

811/ Ibid.

812/ Ibia.

813/ A "witting" asset is the title given to a CIA source

whose information is being used by the

CIA.

814/ CIA No. 580-583, WX 7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.

815/ Ibid.: circa October 1964.

816/ Ibid.

817/ Ibid.

818/ Ibid.: Also, Winston Scott was the Mexico City Chief in

1964.

819/ CIA No. 's 580-583; WX 7241, Entry #427, p. 42, CIA #719.

820/

WX 7241, p. 94, Entry #430, CIA #721; Blind memo dated

10/5/64, CIA

#576.

821/ Personality.

822/ See WX 7241, p. 94, CIA #721.

823/ WX 7241 p. 87, CIA #714.

824/ CIA 10/12/64 memo, CIA #596; WX 7241, p. 87, CIA #714.

825/ Tichborn was Henry P. Lopez' cryptonym. Mr. Lopez was a

witting asset who wrote propaganda pieces for the CIA.

After careful review of Lopez' CIA file, the HSCA has

not been able to establish a link from Mr. Lopez to

either Ms. Odio or Cobb.

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826/ The Committee has not been able to determine why the memo

was not sent to Headquarters.

827/ CIA 10/12/64 Memo, CIA #596; WX 7241, P. 87, CIA #714.

828/ The House Select Committee has been unable to determine

the agent's identity since his name does not appear in

any CIA files.

829/ Memo from Winston Scott to the files, re June Cobb, 11/25/64,

CIA No. 592-593; WX 7241, p. 88, Entry # 404, CIA #715.

830/ While reviewing LICHANT/l's file the Committee determined

that the CIA asset's true name was Manuel Calvillo

who Elena claimed escorted her and her daughter to the

Vermont Hotel for protection the day following JFK's

assassination.

831/ Memo from Winston Scott to the files, re June Cobb Sharp,

11/25/64, CIA Nos. 592-593, WX 7241, P. 88, Entry #404,

CIA No. 715.

832/ Ibid.

833/ Ibid.

834/ HSCA Review of Classified CIA Documents.

835/ The Legal Attache in 1964 was Clark Anderson.

836/ FBI 105-825555 Report, December 11, 1964 entitled Lee

Harvey Oswald, p. 1:

837/ Ibia.

838/. To be checked at FBI.

839/ FBI investigation of President Kennedy's assassination had

established that Lee Harvey Oswald had departed Mexico

City by bus at 8:30 a.m. on October 2, 1963. Elena Insurgente.

840/ FBI 105-825555 Report, December 11, 1964 entitled Lee Harvey

Oswald, p. 1.

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841/ Ibia., p. 3.

842/ Ibid.

843/ Ibid.

844/ Ibid.

845/ Ibid.:

846/ Ibid.

847/ Ibid.

848/ Ibia., p. 4.

849/ Ibid.

850/ Ibid.

851/ Ibid.

852/ Ibid.

853/ Ibid.

854/ A review of CIA files corroborrated that the FBI never

forwarded the information to the CIA.

855/. CIA # 586-587, WX-7241, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

856/ The Committee has been unable to determine who initiated

the discussion re Lee Harvey Oswald.

857/ CIA #586-587, Wx-7241, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

858/ Ibid.

859/ Ibia.

860/ Ibia.

861/ Ibid.

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862/ CIA #586-587, Wx-7241, Entry No. 425, CIA p. 718.

863/ See Section VI, A, 2a.

864/ CIA #586-587, Wx-724:, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

865/ Ibid.

866/ Ibid.

867/ Ibid.

868/ Ibia.

869/ Ibid.; also

see HSCA investigation of Elena Garro de Paz/-alle-

gations.

870/ CIA No. 586-587, Wx-7241, Entry No. 425, p. 91, CIA p. 718.

871/ Ibid.

872/ HSCA pre-interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78

873/ The House Select Committee

has determined that the Central

Intelligence Agency received the copy of the Thomas me-

morandum prior to December 25, 1965, his next meeting

with Elena Garro; Also, see below.

874/ CIA No. 588, note from Stanley Watson to Chief of Station.

875/ Ibid.

876/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 5621,

Dec.

16,

1965, CIA No. 584-585.

877/ Ibia.

878/ Ann Goodpasture.

879/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 5621, -

Dec.

16.г.

1965

CIA Nos. 584-585.

880/ Chief of Station in Mexico

19 M

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882/ State Department: Letter

from Charles Thomas to William

Rogers, July 25, 1969, JFK Document No. 011684.

883/ Ibid.

884/ Ibia.

885/ CIA Nos. 580-583, Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.

886/ Ibid.; The meeting with the Legal Attache officer occurred

November 24, 1964.

Also, see supra, p.

887/ CIA Nos. 580-583, Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719: 004618

888/ Ibid.

889/ Ibid.

890/ Ibia.

891/ Ibid.

892/ Ibid.

893/ Ibid.

894/ Ibia.

895/ Ibid.

896/ Ibia.

897/ Ibid.

898/ Ibid.

899/ Ibid.

900/ Ibid.

901/ Ibid.

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902/ Ibid.

903/ Him: John F. Kennedy.

904/ CIA Nos: 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92.

CIA #719.

905/ Ibia.

906/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 84-81

907/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #719.

908/ Ibid.

909/ Ibid.

910/ Ibid.

911/ Ibid.

912/ Noe Palomares was the Mexican Minister of Immigration in

1963.

913/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA #719.

914/ Ibid.

915/ Ibid.

916/ Ibid.

917/ Ibid.

918/ Ibid:

919/ Ibid.i Also, for confirmation see Memo from Legat to

Winston Scott, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564; Wx-7241, Entry

#466, p. 98, CIA

#725.

920/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA p. 719.

921/ Ibid.

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922/ Ibia.

923/ Ibid.

924/ Ibid.

925/ Ibia.

926/ Ibid.

927/ Ibid.

928/ Victor Rico Galan is dead. The Committee could not verify

Ms. Garro's allegation.

929/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA р. 719;

also, Silvia Duran denied the allegation, (see HSCA Inter-

view

at Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document No. 011775,

p.

81

• Also, see Section VI, A, 2a.)

930/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry No. 427, p. 92, CIA, p. 719.

931/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pp. 3-4, JFK Doc. No. 011684.

932/ Ibid.

933/ Supra, P.

934/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pp. 3-4, JFK DOC. # 011684.

935/ CIA Nos. 580-583; Wx-7241, Entry #427, p. 92, CIA #710.

936/ Ibid.

937/ MEXI 5621, Dec. 16, 1965; Wx-7241, Entry #426, p. 92,

CIA #710.

938/ Memo to the Ambassador from the Legal Attache, 12/27/65,

CIA #578; Wx-7241, Entry 429, p. 94, CIA #721.

939/ Ibid.

940/ Ibid.

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941/ Ibia.

942/ Winston Scott superimposed a note to Ann Goodpasture on

"Can we send in a report to Head-

quarters dismissing' our celee Goodpasture responded,

The cable Winston Scott wanted dismissed was

MEXI 5621 which reported that station was "following up"

and cabling results.

The new cable was written and

sent on December 29, 1965; see text.

943/ 'Cable fromMexico City to the Director, 12/29/65, MEXI

5741, CIA #575; Wx-7241.

Entry #430, p. 94, CIA #721.

944/ Ibid.

945/ Ibid.

946/ Ibia.

947/ Ibid.

948/ Ibia.

949/ Ibid.

950/ Note from Ann Goodpasture to Mexico City Station, Cuban Sec-

tion, 2/3/66, CIA No.

579; Wx-7241, Entry 428, p. 94,

CIA

#721.

951/ Ibid.

952/ Ibid. HSCA Staff Summary of CIA Files on LITAMIL-7 and LATIMIL-9.

953/ See Section II,, A, 3 above.

954/ Classified Summary of Staff Review of CIA Documents, un-

dated, p. 3, CIA #763.

955/ Memo from Legat to Ambassador, 2/23/66, CIA #571; Wx-7241,

Entry #455, p. 95, CIA #722.

956/ Ibid.

491

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957/ The House Select Committee has been unable to determine

when the copy was forwarded to the CIA.

958/ Ibid.; see also 12/25/65 Thomas memo for corroboration.

959/ Memo from Legat to Winston Scott, 10/13/66, CIA No. 564;

Wx-7241, Entry #466, p. 98, CIA #725; Thomas' 7/13/66

memo.

960/ Ibia.

961/ Ibid.

962/ Memo of Conversation by Charles Thomas, 12/25/65, p. 3,

CIA

#582. JFK Doc. #011684.

963/ Wx-7241, Entry #466, p. 98, CIA #725.

964/ "Selected out" is a phrase used when an officer is retired

after having been in one grade for the maximum period

of time and is not considered qualified for promotion

to a higher grade.

965/ State Department: Letter from Charles Thomas to William

Rogers, Secretary/State, July 25, 1969. JFK Doc. #011684.

966/ Ibid.

267/ Deputy Chief of Mission, State Department, Chief of Affairs

at the time of President Kennedy's assassination and sub-

sequent Oswald investigation.

968/ Letter from Charles Thomas to William Rogers,

Secretary

of State, July 25, 1969.

JFK DoC. #011684.

969/ Ibia.

970/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, pp. 3-4, JFK Doc. # 011684.

971/ Ibia.

972/ Letter from Charles Thomas to William Rogers, Secretary

of State, July, 25, 1969.

JFK Doc. #011684.

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972a/ The Committee was unable. to determine when Elena found her

calendar.

973/ Ibid.

974/ Ibid.

975/ Ibid.

976/ FBI Report, 9/30/69, p. 4. JFK DOC. # 011684.

977/ Ibid.

978/ Ibid.

979/ Supra, p.

980/ Supra, p.

981/ Supra, p.

982/ Letter HSCA to Mexican Goverment,

NO.

• JFK Document,

983/ See Mexico City Procedural Wirte-up Trip I.

984/ Ibid.

985/ Ibid.

986/ Ibid.

987/ See HSCA Staff Interview of Betty Serratos, 6/6/78, p. 6,

JFK Document No. 013392 ; HSCA Staff Interview of Lydia

Duran, 6/5/78,. p. 6, JFK Document No. 011681; HSCA

Staff Interview of Horatio Duran Navarro, 6/5/78, p. 25,

JFK Document No. 011683; HSCA Staff Interview of

Duran, 6/5/78, p. 16, JFK Document No. 011680

988/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Tirado Duran 6/6/78, p. 90,

JFK Document No. 011775.

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#011775, p. 54 ; HSCA Staff pre-interview of Lydia Duran

6/5/18,

; HSCA Staff pre-

Interview of Betty Serratos, 6/6/78,

HSCA Staff Interview of Horatio

Duran Navarro, 6/5/68, JFK Document # 011683, p. 9

; HSCA

Staff pre-interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78

990/ Letter From HSCA to CIA,

991/ Letter from CIA to HSCA.

992/ See Procedural Write-up Trip 2, Mexico City.

993/ Ibid.

994/ HSCA Staff Review of June Cobb Sharp file at CIA Head-

quarters.

995/ Supra, p.

996/ See Procedural Write-up Mexico City Trip 2.

997/ HSCA Staff Review of Manuel Calvillo file.

998/ See procedural write-up Trip 2, Mexico City and Section

VII, C, below.

999/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFK Document No. 10016.

1000/ Ibid.

1001/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/7/78, JFK Document. No. 013486.

1002/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 7/14/78, JFK Document No. 9950.

1003/ Ibid.

1004/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 8/31/78, JFK Doc. # 013487.

1005/ Ibia.

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1007/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78, JFK Document No. 011268.

1008/ Ibid.

1009/ Ibid.

1010/ Letter to Elena Garro from Committee, 9/6/78, JFK Document

No. 011383; see also, HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78,

JFK Document No. 011268.

1011/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/7/78, JFK Document No. 011345.

1012/ Ibid.

1013/ Ibia.

1014/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/15/78, JFK Document # 013488.

1015/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/12/78, JFK Document

• # 011344.

1016/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/15/78, JFK Document # 013488.

1017/ HSCA Staff Contact Report,

:, JFK Document #

1018/ UNAM - Universided Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

1019/ American Embassy Incoming Telegram # A-43-570, p. 110,

CIA #737.

.020/ Ibid

1021/ Ibia.

1022/ Ibia.

1023/ Ibid.

1024/ Ibid.

1025/ Letter to Wesley D. Bowles, Chief of Mexican Political

Affairs, Office of Mexican Affairs, Department of State

from B. J. Ruyle, American Consul,

Tampico, 5/11/67;

Wx-7241 Entry #597, p. 114, CIA #741.

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1026/ Ibia.

1027/ Ibid.

1028/ Ibid.

1029/ Ibia.

1030/ Ibid.

1031/ The Committee could not determine when the State Depart-

ment forwarded the letter to the CIA.

1032/ Dispatch from the Director to Mexico City, 6/14/67, HMMW

15557; Wx-7241, Entry #616, p. 117, CIA. #744.

1033/ Ibid.

1034/ Ibia.

1035/ Ibid.

1036/ Ibia.

1037/ Ibia.

1038/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67,

Wx: 7241, Entry #622, p. 118, CIA #745.

1039/ El Sol is a newspaper, The Sun.

1040/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;

Wx-7241, entry #622, p. 118, #745.

1041/ When Contreras was asked to identify the other four indi-

viduals who had met Lee Harvey Oswald, he refused to

reveal their names because he feared

that informing on

them might endanger his family.

1042/ Cable from Mexico City to Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;

Wx-7241, entry #622, p. 118, CIA

#745.

1043/ Ibia.

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1044/ Ibid.

1045/ Ibid.

1046/ Ibid.

1047/ Cable from the Director to Mexico City, 7/4/67, DIR 16823,

Wx-7241, Entry 626, p. 119, CIA #746.

1048/ Ibid.

1049/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, 7/5/67, MEXI 1991;

Wx-7241, Entry 627, P. 119, CIA #746.

1050/ Memo to Legat, 7/5/67 from Chief of Station; Wx-7241,

entry 628, p. 119, CIA #746.

1051/ Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67, Wx-7241, Entry

#634, p. 120, CIA #747.

1052/ Ibid.

1053/ The leaders of the group were Victor Manuel Barcelo, Carlos

Andaluz, Hugo Castro Aranda, Antonio Tenario Adame, Jose

Guerrero Guerrero, Carlos Ortiz Fejeda, Daniel Molina,

Brion Balvez, Humberto Hiriarte, Oscar

Gonzales, Hibam

Garcia, Pedro Sainz Zepeda, Alberto Cerecer, Jose Eduardo

Pascual, Juan Saldana, Martin Reyes Baissadel, Vicente

Lvillamar, Rubelio Fernandez Durado and Jesus Ochoa.

1054/ Memo from JKB re Oscar Contreras, 7/10/67; Wx-7241, Entry

#634, p. 120, CIA #747.

1055/ Ibid.

1056/ Dispatch from Mexico City to Director, HMMA 32497, 7/11/67;

Wx-7241, Entry #635, p. 121, CIA #748.

1057/ Dispatch from the Director to

Mexico City,

6/14/67, HMMW

15557; Wx-7241, Entry #616, p. 117, CIA #744.

1058/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, MEXI 1950, 6/29/67;

Wx-7241, entry #622, p.

118

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1059/ Cable from Mexico City to the Director, 7/5/67, MEXI

1991; Wx7241, Entry 627, p. 119, CIA

• #746.

1060/ See Section VI, C.

1061/ See Section VI, D, above.

1062/ See Warren Commission Report, pp. 299-304, 733-736; also,

Section I, B, VC and VI A above.

Some of the more prominent

are Paul Hoch and Peter Dale Scott in the Assassination in

Dallas and Beyond and A. I. Weberman in Coup d etat in America.

1063/ See Sections V C, VIA and B respectively.

1064/ Ibid.

1065/ Silvia Duran.

1066/ Eusebio Azcue Lopez, Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, Orestes Guillermo

Ruiz Perez, Nilo Otero, Maria Teresa Proenza y Proenza.

1067/ Noe W. Palomares, Pedro Gutierrez Valencia, Silvia Duran,

Horacio Duran,

Ruben Duran, Lydia Duran, Betty Serratos,

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller.

1068/ See Glossary.

1069/ The Handwriting Panel concluded that the signature on the

visa application was identical to other samples of Lee

Harvey Oswald's handwriting.

1070/ HSCA Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document 011775.

Consul Azcue stated that standard operating procedure at the

Cuban Consulate did not allow applications to be removed

from the office. (HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue,

9/18/78, p. 41)

1071/ Ibid., pP. 31-33.

1072/ See Sections II C, III A 1 and III B 2 above.

1073/ See Section III B 2 above.

1074/ Ibid.

1075/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript from Soviet Embassy,

9/27/63.

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1077/ Ibid.

1078/ Ibid.

1079/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript from Soviet Embassy,

9/28/63.

1080/ Ibid.

1081/ Ibid.

1082/ Ibia.

1083/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOCU-

ment No. 011775, p. 19.

1084/ Ibid., pp. 20-23.

1085/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue, 9/18/78, p. 36.

1086/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document

#011775, p. 23.

1087/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez, 9/18/78,

p. 32-33.

1088/ See Sections VC, and VIB above.

1089/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-

ment # 011775, p. 37.

1090/ See Supra, p.

1091/ See Sections III, Al and III B above.

1092/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document

# 011775, p. 92-100; also, see Section VC for details.

1093/ See Sections VC for details.

1094/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez 9/18/78, p. 51.

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1095/ See Section VI C above and VII B below.

1096/ See Section III A 1 above. Telephone taps.

1097/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-

ment No. 011775, p. 44

1098/ The CIA's classification of the transcript of this conver-

sation prevented the HSCA from directly confronting

Ms. Duran with the information.

1099/ See Sections II, C, 3, 4 and III Al above.

1100/ CIA Electronic Surveillance transcript of Soviet Embassy,

9/28/63.

1101/ Ibid., October 1, 1963.

1102/ Ibid.

1103/ Ibid.

1104/ See Section IV, B above.

1105/ Ibid.

1106/ HSCA Public Testimony of Marina Oswald,

, Warren Com-

mission Testimony of George DeMorenschildt.

Warren Com-

mission Testimony of George Boule.

1107/ CIA Electronic Surveillance of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.

1108/ Ibid.

1109/ Ibia.

1110/ Ibid.

1111/ Ibid.

1112/ The caller said Odessa.

1113/ Warren Commission Report, p. 301.

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27, 1963.

1115/ Ibia.

1116/ Ibid.

1117/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-

ment No. 011775, p. 31.

1118/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,

p. 119.

1119/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document

011775, p. 23.

1120/ Ibid., p. 31.

1121/ Ibia.

1122/ Ibid.

1123/ HSCA Public Testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78,

p. 119.

1124/ CIA Electronic Surveillance of Soviet Embassy, 9/27/63.

1125/ Ibia.

1126/ Ibia.

1127/ Ibid.; also HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78,

JFK Document No. 011775. p. 41.

1128/ Ibid.

1129/ Warren Commission Testimony of Nelson Delgado, Vol. III,

p. 236-237.

1130/ Warren Commission Testimony of Pamela Mumford, 5/19/64,

Vol. II, p. 217; Warren Commission Testimony of Evaristo

Rodriguez,

7/21/64, Vil. II. p. 34, CE 2120, p. 7;

CE 212, p. 54.

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1131/ Warren Commission, Report, p. 301.

1132/ See Section VI C, above.

1133/ See Section VI D, above.

1134/ See Section VII D, above.

1135/ See Sections III, A 1 and III B 2.

1136/ Ibid.

1137/ Warren Commission Report, p. 301.

1138/ A night when Oswald's activities are not known.

1139/ HSCA Staff

-pre-interview of Ruban Duran, 3/31/78, No. 011680,

p. 54; HSCA Staff Pre-interview of Lydia Duran, 6/5/78,

HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK 'Document

No. 011683 p. 9; HSCA Staff Pre-Interview of Betty Serratos,

6/1/78, HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78;

JFK Document No. 011775, P. 54.

1140/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-

ment No. 011775, p.91.

1141/ Ibid.

1142/ HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben Duran, 6/ 6/78, JFK Docu-

ment No. 011680

HSCA Staff Interview of

Lydia Duran, 6/ 5/78, JFK Document No. 011681, P...

noCA stair Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/_5/78, JFK Do-

cument NO. 0116831 P.

HSCA Staff Interview of

Betty Serratos, 6/6,/78, JFK Document No. 013392.

1143/ See Section VI, C,

above.

1144/ HSCA Staff pre-interview of Ruben Duran, 5/31/78.

1145/ HSCA Public Testimony of Eusebio Azcue Lopez, P. 84-85.

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above.

1147/ See Mexico City Procedures Write-up Trip 2 Appendix 3.

1148/ See Section VI, C,

above.

1149/ See Section VI, C,

above.

1150/ See Section

VI, A 2 above.

1151/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOCU-

ment No. 011775 , p. 81.

1152/ Ibid., p.87-88.

1153/ HSCA Staff Review of LITAMIL 9 file.

1154/ HSCA Staff Review of CIA Silvia Duran file,

1155/ See Appendix 3.

1156/ Ibid.

1157/ Ibid.

1158/ See Section VI, C 10 above.

1159/ See Section VI, C,

1160/ See Section VI, C,

1161/ See Section VI, C

1162/ See Section VI, C

1163/ See Appendix 3.

1164/ See Section VI, C, 1 above.

1165/ Ibid.

1166/ Ibia.

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above.

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1167/ See Appendix 3.

1168/ See Section VI, C 1. above.

1169/ See Section VI, C,

above.

1170/ Letter from Charles Thomas

to William P. Rogers, July 25,

1969, JFK Document No. 011684.

1171/ See Section VI,C,

above.

1172/ See Section VI, D above for details.

1173/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Document

No. 011775, p. 95.

1174/ See Section VI, D above.

1175/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK No.

011755, p. 101-102.

1176/ See Section VI, D above.

1177/ HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK Docu-

ment No. 011775, p.95

1178/ See Appendices II and III.

1179/ Warren Commission Report, p. 305.

1180/ See Section VI C above.

1181/ See Section VII, C above.

1182/ See Section VII, B above.

1183/ See Sections VI ABC above.

1184/ See Verbatim transcript of meetings prepared by Cuban go-

vernment.

Hereinafter, called transcript.

JFK DOC.

#012212.

1185/ Ibid.

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1186/

Ibia.; see also, HSCA Staff Interview of Eusebio Azcue,

4/1/78, JFK Document No. 007005

1187/

See transcript.

1188/ Ibid.

1189/

Ibid.

1190/

Ibid.

1191/

See HSCA Interview of Fidel Castro Ruz, April 3, 1978.

JEK Document # 007004

1192/

Pedro Gutierrez Valencia claimed that he bumped into

Lee Harvey Oswald at the Consulate on September 27,

1963. Valencia was at the Consulate doing a credit

check on one of the Cuban employees.

1193/

See Section VI, D above for details on Oscar Contreras'

allegations.

1194/

1195/

1196/

1197/

1198/

See Section VI C for details on Elena and Elenita

Garro's allegations.

Elena Garro's sister who came to the conclusion that

Lee Harvey Oswald was at one of Ruben Duran's twist

parties in the fall of

'63.

Eunice Odio reported on Elena Garro's allegations in

1965.

See Section VI, C,

above.

Elena Garro reported that at one of the twist parties,

Emilio Carballido and Eusebio Azcue had come to the

conclusion that Kennedy had to be assassinated. (See

also, Section VI, C,

above.

Elena Garro alleged that Victor Rico Galan had claimed

that Lee Harvey Oswald had been Silvia Duran's lover.

See also, Section VI, C,

above.

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1200/

1201/

1202/

1203/

1204/

1205/

Diaz-Ordaz and Echevarria were the two presidents of

Mexico respectively from 1964 to 1970 and 1970 to 1976.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Horacio Duran, 6/5/78, JFK

Document No. 011680.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Pedro Gutierriz Valencia,

6/5/78, JFK Document No. 011682.

Lynn Duran is the sister of Horatio and Ruben Duran.

The Committee wished to ask her whether Lee Harvey

Oswald had attended any twist parties at the Durna

homes.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Lynn Duran, 6/5/78, JFK Doc.

# 011681

See HSCA Staff Interview of Ruben Duran, 6/6/78, JFK

Doc. # 011680.

The Committee never sent the Mexican government the

questions because

a 2nd trip to Mexico was arranged.

The Committee wished to ask Ms. Serratos whether Lee

Harvey Oswald had attended any twist parties at the

Duran homes.

See HSCA Staff Interview of Betty

Serratos, JFK Doc. # 011392.

1206/

See HSCA Staff Interview of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK

Document No. 011775.

1207/Danny Flores was one of AMMUG's (a Cuban DGI Defector in

1964) Security Officers.

The Committee wished to

ask Mr. Flores about AMMUG's statements about Lee

Harvey Oswald's Trip to the Cuban Consulate.

1208/

Ramon Alvarez Dupont was a CIA agent in charge of

picking up the photographic surveillance film from

personnel stationed at the three bases and delivering

it to his brother-in-law (unknown) and later delivering

it to his case officer Ann Goodpasture.

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1210/

1211/

1212/

1213/

1214/

1215/

1216/

1217/

See HSCA Staff Write-Ups of Danny Flores Interview

8/8/78.

Oscar Contreras Lartigue claimed that he met Oswald

in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. See Section

VI, D above.

Elena claimed that when she told Noe W. Palomares about

meeting Lee Harvey Oswald, he advised her to send an

anonymous letter to Texas, explaining her account.

The Committee wished to question Mr. Palomares about

Elena's credibility.

LICHANT I is Manuel Calvillo. See Section VI, C

for details and significance.

LICOOKIE I is June Cobb Sharp. See Section IV, C

for details.

LITAMIL 7 is Consuelo Esperon, a CIA penetrator agent

working as a secretary at the Cuban Embassy. The

Committee wished to ask Ms. Esperon about commentary

after the assassination at the Cuban Embassy about

both Lee Harvey and John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Litamil 9 was Luis Alberue Suoto, a CIA penetration

agent at the Cuban Embassy.

The Committee wished to

question Mr. Alberue about the Cuban Embassy employees'

reactions to the assassination. The Committee also

wished to question Mr. Alberue about Silvia Duran

and his knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald.

LIRING 3 was a Cuban citizen, Carlos Jurado Delmar who

was a

source for the CIA. He had reported that Silvia

Duran had told him that she had had an affair with

Lee Harvey Oswald.

The Committee wished to question

him about Silvia Duran.

See HSCA Staff write-up of Interview with Ramon Alvarez

Durant.

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1219/

1220/

1221/

1222/

1223/

1224/

General Jesus Jose Calrk Flores escorted Ruben Duran

to Russia in 1962 and was considered by many to be

Duran's protector.

Also, Elena claimed that Flores

was at the party that she stated Lee Harvey Oswald

in attendance.

The Committee wished to ask

Mr. Clark Flores about all the above.

Ernesto Lehfeld Miller is a Mexican citizen that

resembled Eusebio Azcue's description of the man

that allegedly visited the Cuban Consulate.

All the Durans recognized Miller. Horatio and

Silvia said that Miller was a close friend and

borrowed Horatio's car often.

See House Select Committee on Assassinations Staff

Write-Up of Noe W. Palomares, 8/10/78.

See HSCA Staff write-up of interview with Ernesto

Lehfeld Miller, 8/11/78.

In 1963 Nilo Otero as an official in the Cuban

governments Ministry of Foreign Relations, interviewed

Eusebio Azcue about Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the

Cuban Consulate.

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Rogelio Rodriguez

at the Cuban Embassy.

The Committee wished to interview

Mr. Rodriguez about Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to

the Cuban Embassy employees' reactions to the Kennedy

assassination.

Rolando Cubela, known as AMLASH, was prominent in the

Senate Select Committee's Book V which reported the

possibility that the Central Intelligence Agency's

attempts to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro

provoked the Cuban government to orchestrate the

assassination of President Kennedy in retaliation.

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In 1963 the Cuban government employed Orestes

Guillermo Ruiz Perez at the Cuban Embassy. The

Committee wished to interview Mr. Rodriguez about

Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate

and about the Cuban Embassy employees' reactions

to the Kennedy assassination.

In addition, Mr. Ruiz

is the cousin-in-law of one of the most active

anti-Castroites, Antonio Veciana Blanch.

1226/

Griselle Rubio claimed in a letter Dec. 1963 to DRI

that Ruby had been in Cuba in 1962 or 1963 visiting

Solomon Prätkins.

The Committee located and

interviewed Ms. Rubio in Miami.

1127/

James Wilcott is an ex-CIA employee who appeared

voluntarily in August 1978 at the Cuban Government's

Tribunal which accused the CIA of complicity in the

John F. Kennedy assassination.

1228/

Philip Agee is an ex-CIA employee who appeared voluntarily

in August 1978 at the Cuban government's Tribunal

which accused the CIA of complicity in the John F.

Kennedy assassination.

1229/

The Tribunal, held in August 1978 was an effort by the

Cuban government to accuse

the CIA of complicity in

the John F. Kennedy assassination. Ex CIA agents,

James Wilcott and Phillip Agee testified at the

Tribunal along with ex-Cuban Consul in Mexico,

Eusebio Azcue.

1230/ See HSCA Interview of Juan Nilo Otero, 9/25/78, JFK

Document No.

1231/

Alfredo Mirabal Diaz assumed the Consul position,

in the

Cuban government's Mexico City Consulate

on September 2, 1963.

He was present during all

of Oswald's visits to the Consulate.

Also,

see

HSCA Interview of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 8/26/78, JFK

Document No.

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The Committee wished to question Mr. Verdacia about

the identities of the organized crime figures

detained in Trescornia at the inception of the

Cuban

revolutionary government.

1233/

HSCA Interview of Jose Verdacia Verdacia, 8/26/78,

JEK DOC.

012224.

234

See HSCA Interview of Orestes Guillermo Ruiz Perez,

8/27/78, JFK DOC. #

1235/

See HSCA Interview of Rolando Cubela Secades, 8/28/78,

JFK Document #

1236/

In 1963 the Cuban government employed Maria Teresa

Proenza y Proenza at the Cuban Embassy. The Committee

wished to interview MS. Proenza about Lee Harvey Oswald's

visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban

Embassy employees' reactions to the assassination of

John F. Kennedy•

Also, See HSCA Interview of Maria

Teresa

Proenza y Proenza, 8/28/78, JFK DOC. #

1237/

See Verbatim transcript of 8/28/78 session.

JFK DOC. # 012208

1238/

In 1963, Manuel Piñiero, Chief of the Ministry of

Foreign Relations, interviewed Eusebio Azcue about

Lee Harvey Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate.

In a-dition, Mr. Piniero was the Cuban revolutionary

government official who met with Santo Trafficante

and gave him 24 hours to leave the country.

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In 1963 the Cuban government employed Luisa Calderon

Carralero at the Cuban Embassy.

The Committee wished

to interview Ms. Proenza about Lee Harvey Oswald's

visits to the Cuban Consulate and about the Cuban

Embassy employees'

reactions to the assassination

of John F. Kennedy•

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In 1963 Raul Roa interviewed Eusebio Azcue in Cuba

about Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico

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