ANALYSIS OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD'S ACTIVITIES IN MEXICO CITY
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VII. Analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico

City

A. Introduction

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After the Warren Commission investigation published

its

report two very important allegations related to Lee

Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City have come to

the attention of the United States investigative agencies.

In 1964, Elena 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 Navarro, the brother-in-law of

Silvia Duran.

do see section i, e.) In 1967, Oscax Con-

treras Lartigue reported that he met Lee Harvey Oswald on

the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

(UNAM)

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In addition, the testimony of the Warren Commission's

primary witness related to Mexico City, Silvia Tirado Duran,

by the crites throughout the yees. 1o62

has been called into question.

(see Narron poport pp. 299-

1|309 133-736: and Sections I, B, V. Ci and VI, s, abowe.)

Some of the intormation that is inconsistent with

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Ms. Duren's original story-- that OswAlD visited the Consulate

on two acrestions which were the only times she saw him --

was available at the time of the

Warren Commission's

inquiry although it was ignored, lobs

Some of the information

has developed

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after the publication of the warren Report.

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The Garro and Contreras allegations, in conjunction

with the weakening of Ms. Duran's story raise three major.

questions: did Lee Harvey Oswald or an imposter visit the

Cuban Consulate in Mexico City?; Other than his visits

to the Cuban Consulate, what were Lee Harvey Oswald's acti-

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vities in Mexico City?; and, was Lee Harvey Oswald travel-

ling alone in Mexico? ¿These three questions dorot

coutse

overlap somewhat in detail;

e. or exampte, if oswald was

not tarveling alone, did one of his companions impersonate

him at the Cuban Consulate, Nonethekss

Each of the three questions

will be dealt with in separate sections below.

If the dis-

cussion at times seems

slightly redundentit is because

that is an anavoidable

side-effect of the interpelatedness

of the questions. )

In an attempt to answer the questions, posed above

the House: Select Committee on Assassinations has: 1) inter-

viewed Mexican and Cuban citizens who could have knowledge

of Oswald's visits to the Cuban Consulate; 2) Interviewed

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Mexican citizens who could have knowledge of Oswald's ac=

tivities and associations in Mexico City; 3) Conducted an

extensive review of the files of the Central Intelligence

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Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

that pertain

to Oswald's sojourn in Mexico City. Es

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

intransit visa bears his signature.

"eite to Handwriting

aratysis.) Though the Cuban Consulate allowed visa appli-

cants to take blank applications out of the Consulate to

stated she

be returned when completed, silvia Duran, vas certain that

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Oswald signed the application in her presence.

vier of silvia Duran, 6/6/78, IFK Document

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Oswald's signature on the Cuban visa application,

hoever, does not by itself rule out the possisility

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 as Oswald,

visited the cuban consulate at least two times and the

Soviet Consulate at least threef times.

(see sections It

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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-

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stination. (Duran interview, 676/70, 894 Document 1011681.)

Ms. Duran sent Oswald to obtain photographs that he needed

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for the visa application. (Fbiu., p. 20-23.) Eusebio

Azcue recalls that this visit probably occured on the

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date on the visa application, 9/27/63. (Public testimony

of Fusebio Aseue, 9/18/78, P. 36.)

Although

unlikely, if someone

impersonated Oswald

Mexico

is possible that

the individual's firs

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occared before Oswald's

arrIval.

It

is unlikely

becaus

such actIons

would have been poor tradecraft.)

Ms: Duran also stated that Oswald returned at ap-

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proximately 1:00 p.m. with four photographs.

(Daran In-

tervier, 6/6/78, IIK Document I01162

ag: 23. ): Eusebio

Azcue also stated that the individual later identified

äs 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."

Rub lie

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ashimony of Ergei

Asette, 3/10/70, 1p: 32-331. The argu-

that

the

ment between Azcue and the individual probably occured

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during this visit.

(See Sections V, C, and VI, B, above.)

Ms. Duran stated that Oswald's third, and last visit,

occured in the late afternoon after working hours on the

27th 0 purer interuie, 676/98, UH-000. 1012681, p. 37.3,

This visit is confirmed by(the CIA's) tap on the soviet

consulate!" fee aboved)

- In addition to the alleged Oswald visits to the Con-

sulates, there were other telephonic contacts that may

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have been between Oswald, or an imposter, and the Consulates.

(seasections fIl, 1, 1, and iTT, D, ebove.) I

_Several details about Oswald's visits to the Cuban

Consulate, and telephonic contacts with both Consulates

Truente that the individual involved vas not oswala.

Siplia Duran's description of Oswald

did not

resemble Oswald's true physical appearance. fuseA Inter-

view of Silvia Duran, 6/6/78, JFK DOC. H01GG8; Cite also.

early report. See section V, € for detaite.)

This

description, which appeared early in the reporting of in-

formation obtained from Ms. Duran was deleted from subse-

quent reports and was not at all mentioned in the Warren

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Report.

See Sections V, C, for details.) . Eusebio Azcue's

description of Oswald was similar to Silvia Duran's, but

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more détailed.

(Azureroiter) Perhaps the most remarkable

thing about these descriptions is their similarity to

Elena Garra de Paz' description of one of Oswald's alleged

companions!095

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NOTE: add blond man on Knoll it found

Another possible indication that an imposter as also

-1021 as bewild, visited the Consulate is the 9/28/63 inter-

cepted conversation.

Silvia Duran adamantly denies that

Oswald visited the Cuban Consulate on Saturday, September

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28, 1963.

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 I8 was not Oswald 109g

Hote: the CIA a classification of the transcript of this

conversation prevented the ISCA from directly confrontina

Ms. Dural with the information. I Ms. Duran, in light of

the inconsistencies detailed in Sections V, C and VI,. A

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above, may not be the most credible witness, but there are

Indications that she was truthful

when she stated that Os-

wald did not visit the Consulate on September 28. The

(/d September 28, 1963 conversation was linked to Oswald be-

cause of the marginal notations made by the CIA translator

on the transcript.

abore.) The translator noted on the transcript that the

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Nores the possib, tity, bur does noT conclude,

The Committee dectives to specutate about

whethel the missing production from the

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Anything to do with the possibility that

SomEoNE impersoNAtEd OswAld in Mexico.

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caller spoke "terrible, hardly recognizable Russian. "un

(eite transcrript.) On October 1, 1963, a man called

the Soviet Consulate and identified himself as "Lee Os-

wala. "'"'éite trans

ript.) This man also stated that he

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had been at the Consulate on Saturday, the 28th.

(toid.)

The translator noted that this was the same man who had

called the Consulate "a day or so ago" and had spoken-

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in broken Russian.

From this information, and possibly

a voice comparison (see Section, IV, B, above) the 9/28

caller was identified as Oswald.

The problem with assum-

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ing that the caller on 9/28 and 10/f was Oswald is that

Oswald spoke fluent Russian.

(Cites.) 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

1 Satur-

day and on October Ist was an imposter.. Yet the informa-

tion is sufficient to

arously question the assumption

that it was Oswald, especially in light of Azcue's and Duran's

descriptions and Elena Garro de Paz's story

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Three calls that also occured early on September

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27, 1963, may have been made by an imposter. At approxi

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

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looking for a visa to. Odessa and was referred to the so-

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viet Consulate.

At 10:37 a.m. a man called the Soviet

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Consulate and asked for a visa to Odessa.

He was told

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soied Ence ay and was

1:25

Suried

was told the corial shan called the

misturn

Conest between 4:00p and 5:00 p.m. that day.

While only the callers' requests for a visa to

Russia

"(odessa) connect these calls to Oswald, the HSeA

-believes that they do fit logically into a time sequence

created by what is known from testimony and the electronig

intercepts about his actions on that day. The following

is a reasonable possible chronology of Oswald's actions

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on 9/27/63 based on analysis of the available evidence.

Oswald probably arrived in Mexico around 10:00

a.m. on

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September 27.

(Cite -WR.) By 10:30 Oswald

'had 'time to

arrive at the Hotel del Comercio and to place a call to

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the Soviet Military Attache who referred him to the Consul.

The military attache also gave the caller directions to

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the Consulate.

Durina the 10:37 a.m. call to the Con-

Savier

sulate,the caller learned that he could contact the Consul

at 11:00 a.m.'' his done, Oswald then went to the cupape

Foll this way ts

consulate, where he arrived around 11:00 a.m

view with silvia Duran, 6/6/78. JFK DOG #011681, p. 37.1

This meeting only lasted approximately fifteen minutes.

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Bustie Testimony of Alfredo Mirabel Diaz, 9/18/78, p. 119.)

Da send OSWald AS ThIN SENt

to obtain photographs and to the Russian

Embassy to get the necessary Russian visa. (HSCA Intes:

view of Silvia Duran, 0/6/78, IFK DOC. #11681, p. 23.)

Oswald returned to the Cuban Consulate around 1:00 p.m. "20

tie he At this point, he had his.

_encounter with

Azcue, and completed Khis ViSA application. fIbida) Oswald

probably realized at this point that he would have prob-

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lems obtaining the visas.

After this visit to the Cuban

Consulate, which lasted approximately Fifteen minutes 1123

(Public testimony of Alfredo Mirabal Diaz, 9/18/78 p. 119)

Oswald tried to contact the Soviet Consul whom Oswald

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claimed had assured him that he would have no problems

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obtaining a visa. (Eite) Hence, the 1:25 call!''

During

this conversation Oswald learned that the Consul would

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

Os-

Silvia Duran

in the Soviet Consul on his

behalf.

"47se7 Interview of StIvia Duran, 6/6/78, JRK DOC.

#01168, p= 37. Hence, the 4:05 and 4:26 p.m. calls in-

volving Duran. 1128

But there is a problem with attributing the first

three calls on September. 27, 1963 to Oswald. The conversa-

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The testimony. of

sons are all in spanish. With the exception of Delgado, 129)

the evidence indicates that Oswald did not speak spanish. "so

(Cites:) Hence, either the above-detailed calls were not

made by oswald or Oswald could speak lingfist.

There is not enough evidence

to firmly conclude

that some one did impersonate Oswald in Mexico. On the

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other hand, the evidence is

of such a nature that the pos-

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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:

-BY Saturday, September 28, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald

had failed to obtain visas at both the Cubanfand

Soviet Embassies.

From Sunday, September 29,

through Wednesday morning, October 2, when he

left Mexico City on a bus bound for the United

States, Oswald spent considerable time making

his travel arrangements, sightseeing and checking

• the Soviet Embassy to learn whether

anything had happened on his visa application. "3!

(Warren Commiscion Report, p. 307.) Subsequent to the Warren

Commission's Report, the allegations of Elena Garro (See Section

VI, C, above.) and Oscar Contreras Lartigue

(see Section VI,

I, above:) came to the attention of the United States inves-

tigative agencies. The main allegation of both these people,

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that they met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City, remains to this

day without direct

corroboration. Yet the Committee feels that

without giving them any consideratio

it cannot dismiss these allegations

entirely out of hand fore

everal reasons

Illustrated below.

The testimony of Silvia Duran and the Cuban Consulate

Officials Azcue and Mirabal place Oswald's last contact with

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the Cuban Embassy on Friday evening, September 27, 1963.

(see Section VII, D, above.) The transcripts

rom the CIA's

wiretaps on the soviet Consulate place Oswald's last visits

to the Soviet and Cuban Consulates on Saturday morning, Sep-

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tember 28, 1963.

(See Seetions 3, A, 1 and III, B, Z, above.)

Oswald's last telephonic contact with the Soviet Consulate

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came on Tuesday, October 1, 1963.

(Ibia.) Oswald's activities

on the days between September 28 and October 1, are not clearly

recorded. The warren Commission speculated that he spent

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most of this time sightseeing and making travel arrangements.

(Warren Report, p. 301+ 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

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party" on September 30, or October 1 as Elena Garro has claimed.

Ruben, Horacio, Lydia and Silvia Duran all admitted that they

frequently had twist parties in 1963.

It should be noted that this party alle

Fly occured on a night

when Oswald's activities are not known.

Lonly silvia Duran

recalled

Elena Garro attending any of the "twist parties" at

the Duran's home"40

She recalled Elena and Elena's daughter,

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Elinita, attending one twist party at Ruben's home in 1963.

Alt the Der

Durans adamantly deny

that Lee Harvey Oswald had been

2 twist pert.

a twist perty at one freer homes. (142,

attended

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 at the party

were taken to Veracruz under the protection of Governor Lopez

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Arias has not been verified. Ruben Duran denied that he

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had ever discussed the assassination with Elena Garro. 11lYy

Eusebio Azue denied that he had discussed President Kennedy

with Emilio Carballido at a party at the Duran's home as

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alleged by Elena Garro.

•) The Committee has not

been able to verify whether or not gaurds were posted out-

side of Elena's home in 1963 as she claims.

But other details of Elena's story mete it hard to

tor aut it nam. Perhaps the most striking is the sugges-

tion that Oswald's relationship with Silvia Duran was more

extensive than just the business contacts in the Cuban

Consulate.

Another detail is the manner in which he elena's

allegations were handled, and the manner in which this

Committee's attempts to investigate those allegations have

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been frustrated.

In 1965 Elena Garro reported that Silvia Duran

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

In 1967 this report was confirmed by la CIA agent who talked

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to Silvia Duran.

The CIA Station did not consider the

information significant and told the agent to end his

contact with Ms. Durant'so

(see-section VI, A, 2, above

that

for details.) If that information is accurate then Silvia

inviting Oswald to a party would not have been that surprising.

Silvia Duran admitted that the Mexican police had questioned

her on this point but denied that she had had an affair

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with Oswald. / Ms. Duran denied having any extra-marital

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affairs while she was married to Horacio Duran.

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This denial is not consistent with evidence of her reputation

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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 reférred to by

using

the Spanish word for whore, would be to get a blonde

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blue-eyed American into bed

with her.

) There is

CIA

also/information that indicates that Silvia Duran had an

affair with a Cuban Ambassador to Mexico in the early 1960's.

Fist

The ESch attempted to intervier the CIA penetration

agent) about Ms. Duran.

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An interview with (the agent/was also

desired so as to attempt. to verify whethere

Elena Garro had

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created a disturbance at the Cuban Embassy on November 23, 1963.

The Committee's attempts to interview (this agent) were frus-

trated.

(see appendix 3)

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

WAS

were verified by the Mexico City Legal Attache on October

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13, 1966.

(see Section VI, e, 10, above for detaits.) Ms.

Garro claimed that she had been held there by Manuel Calvillo

whom she believed worked for the Mexican Ministry of Govern-

!!'In 1963 Mr. Calvillo was an unwitting asset of the

Central Intelligence Agency

Ms. Garro claimed that she

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

''(vet) the

CIA Mexico City Station dia not receive a report from calvillo)

on this matter until November 24, 1964, the same day

• that

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Elena first told her story to American officials. For these

reasons it was felt that Manuel Calvillo could well be a key

delveting the veracity canadouraey of Ms- Garro's

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were also frustrated. (See appendix 3.)

There is also circumstantial corroboration of Ms.

Garro's allegation's regarding June Cobb Sharp. (For example,

Ms. Cobb was indeed a CIA agent and she did file the first

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report of Ms. Garro's story. 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.

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Ms. Garro claimed that she kicked Ms. Cobb out of her house.

There is a notation on Ms. Cobb's report that she was

not

able to regain access to Ms. Garro. The Committee attempted

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

frustrated.'"*7

Reviewing the manner in which the CIA Mexico City

Station and the Legál Attache's office in Mexico City

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

they were handled in an irresponsible manner because they

were dismissed after a superficial investigation. The first

report that came to the CIA was mis-filed and forgotten.

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The Legat, after talking to Elena, dismissed her story after

interviewing one person whom she said may have been at the

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party.

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 official's in Mexico:

It would appear that whereas the FBI has

iscounted the Elena Garro allegations,

the CIA is still considerably disturbec

by them.

The CIA may not have pressed for

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further investigation, however, for a number

of reasons: l) considering the sensitive over-

lap and subtle competition between two intelli-

gence collecting agencies, it had to yield to

the FBI's clear jurisdiction; 2) there are ob-

vious complications in conducting such an inves-

tigation in a foreign 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 circum-

stances it is unlikely that any further investi-

gation of this matter will ever take place unless

it is ordered by a high official in Washington. 17°

(Thomas Memorandum dated 7/25/69, JFK Document # 11684.)

attempted

The Committee's last hope was to locate Elena Garro.

Although the Committee established telephonic contact with

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Ms. Garro, it was never able to arrange an interview.

Consequently, the Committee was totally frustrated in

this aspect of it's investigation but yet believes that

there is a song 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

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Contreras Lartigue.

(See section VI, D, above for details.)

Silvia Duran admitted that she had told Oswald of two ways

in which he could get a Cuban visa: 1) he could get an intran-

sit 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, after a fashion,

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vouch for him.

= It is possible that after Oswald's

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on Saturday, September 28, that he tried me fun.

a last-ditch

effort to locate someone trusted by the Cuban Consulate to

vouch for him.

"There is no direct evidence about how

could have learned of the pro-castro group at UNAM

Oscar

Contreras says that Oswald first contacted him as he was

leaving a round-table discussion at the school of philosophy.

It is known that, in 1963, the Duran

s were close triends

with the Chairman of the Philosophy Department at UNAM,

Ricardo Guerra, who held seminars on Kant, Hegel and Marx

in the Duran's home.

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It is possible, if Silvia Duran had

more than just a purely business relationship with Oswald,

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 discussion at which he met

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Oswald.

Silvia Duran denied that she referred Oswald to

anyone for help.

"7? .) Ricardo Guerra is presently the

Mexican Ambassador to East Germany and was not available

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to the Committee for an interview. On both

the Committee's

trips to Mexico, the Mexican Government told the Committee

that Mr. Contreras would be made available for an interview.

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The interview never occured.

(See appendix 37) Although

the Committee's attempt to investigate Mr. Contreras' allega-

alle

tiong met largely with frustration,

Hes tell that thos

allagations can not be dismissed.@ut enand:

D. Was Lee Harvey Oswald alone while he travelled in Mexico?

The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald

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travelled alone while he was in Mexico. All of the witnesses,

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with the exception of Elena Garro de Paz who stated that

Oswald was accompanied by two "beatnik looking boys" 118o

section VI, C, above for details.) at Ruben Duran's party,

have stated that when they saw Oswald in Mexico he was alone.

But yet 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 and the manner in which the American.

authorities handled the investigation of that story fres

Section VItrE, anote.); 2) The possibility that someone

impersonated Oswald in Mexico

(ses section VII, → above. )

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and 3) the similarity in/description of Oswald by Ms. Duran

and Mr. Azcue and the description of Oswald's companion by

Ms. Garro! &3

(See-Sectiong VI, A, B; and E, above.)

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mission undertook an intensive inrestigation to determine Oswall

been able to reconstruct and explain most of Oswald's actions during):

this time.

Trellere

mission undertook an intensive investigation to determine Osval:

purpose and activities on this journey, with specific reference to 1

ports that Ostrald was an agent of the Cuban or Soviet Gorernment

As a result of its investigation, the Commission belieres that it ha

been able to reconstruct and explain most of Oswald's actions durin

this time.

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