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that something behind the Iron Curtain had been put in motion in his

behalf. Our investigation of this particular problem has come up with

the following results:

In the first place, both Chayes and licVickar have their dates

wrong.. This does not reflect on their capabilities, because they are

undoubtedly basing their conclusions upon State Department memoranda

which were in turn based upon statements made at the time by Oswald

hinself, and subsequent investigation has shown that these were probably

inaccurate. Oswald's American passport, which he of course had in his

possession at the time he traveled to Russia, was subsequently surrendered

to the Department of State, after he was repatriated, and has since been

placed in the hands of the Carmission. Stamps on this passport show that

the Soviet Iourist Visa was issued (not applied for) in Helsinki on.

October I4.. Confidential information made available from a source which

the CIA says is "very reliable" relates that Oswald arrived by airplane

from,London in Helsinki on October 10. Everything we know about his trip

points to the fact that he proceeded to his destination, Moscow, as rapidly

and as directly as his financial resources would permit. Despite state-

ments made to fellow travelers along the way that he was "only a tourist"

or "just a student on his way to college," he in fact wasted no time in

sightseeing but made connections as rapidly as he reasonably could.

Therefore, although we have no direct evidence indicating when he first

applied for a visa, it seems highly probable that he applied for it as

soon as he arrived in Helsinki, namely, on the lOth of October.

Perhaps,

howèver, his airplane arrived in Helsinki too late for him to have

reached the Consulate before it closed that evening should this have

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Gutierrez came around a corner of a wall and lumped into the Cuban who was

talking with the American, thereby seeing ther: bot for a split second

face-to-face. He apologized, the Cuban gracirusly accepted the apology,

and all three men inmediately continued walking in their respective directions.

When he overheard their conversation, however, which must have been resumed

almost instantaneously, Gutierrez turned arow'd to get another look. Thus,

he got a good look only of the backs of both nen. Likewise, when he followed

them to their automobile, he saw them only fran a distance and again only

their backs. The conclusion of the FBI reprecentatives assigned to this

case is that Gutierrez probably did see money being passed to a man wio

appeared to be an American, but that whether that nan was Lee Harvey

Oswald is by no means certain.

From reviewing his work schedule, which he says he rigorously

adhered to, Gutierrez is able to fix the time at wich he must have seen

the Cuban and the American as 10:50 a.m. on October 1, give or take a very

few minutes. From the CIA wire-tapping facilities in Mexico City we know

that at exactly 10:30 a.Ml. on October I Lee Harvey Oswald telephoned into

the Soviet Embassy and spoke very briefly with someone there. The con-

versation was short because he was not able to reash the person who was

handling his case (the Consul) and therefore was quickly asked to call back

on a different number. We do not know, nor do we have any way of finding

out, from where Oswald was telephoning. At 1l:30 allo, exactly, he

telephoned the number which had been given to him at 10:30 a.i. - the

Russian Consulate - and had a slightly longer conversation about whether

the telegran sent to Washington had been answered. The Cuban and Russian

Consulates in Mexico City are located very close to one another, only

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Gutierrez came around a corner of a wall and bumped into the Cuban who was

talking with the American, thereby seeing them both for a split second

face-to-face. He apologized, the Cuban graciously accepted the apology,

and all three men immediately continued walking in their respective directions.

When he overheard their conversation, however, which must have been resumed

almost instantaneously, Gutierrez turned around to get another look. Thus,

he got a good look only of the backs of both men. Ilkewise, when he followed

them to their automobile, he saw them only from a distance and again only

their backs. The conclusion of the FBI representatives assigned to this

case is that Gutierrez probably did see money being passed to a man who

appeared to be an American, but that whether that man was Lee Harvey

Oswald is by no means certain.

From reviewing his work schedule, which he says he rigorously

adhered to, Gutierrez is able to fix the time at which he must have seen

the Cuban and the American as 10:50 a.M. on October 1, give or take a very

lew minutes. Fron the CIA wire-tapping facilities in Mexico City we know

that at exactly 10:30 a.M. on October I Lee Harvey Oswald telephoned into

the Soviet Imbassy and spoke very briefly with someone there. The con-

versation was short because he was not able to reach the person who was

handling his case (the Consul) and therefore was quickly asked to call back

on a different number. We do not know, nor do we have any way of finding

out, from where Oswald was telephoning. At 11:30 a.l., exactly, he

telephoned the number which had been given to him at 10:30 aM. - the

Russian Consulate - and had a slightly longer conversation about whether

the telegram sent to Washington had been answered. The Cuban and Russian

Consulates in Mexico City are located very close to one another, only

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now possess. Moreover, the, sensitivity of this precise point had not.

been broust to the attention of the ret interrogatort. it is not

inconceivable. that when Nosenko says the first word the KGB received

was when Oswald arrived in "Moscoyn that he was spealding loosely and meant

when Oswald arrived in "Russial or "at the Russian border " Or whatels

even at least as likely, that Nosenko really does not remember the precise.

moment at which osveld first nade his intentions know to the soviet

Goverment.)

one other plece of evidence relating to the same point should

be brought to the attention of the Cormission. The following paragraph

Is an exact quote from a CIA report (Commission No. 698)

"c.

October 1959: Stockholm newspaper, Dagens Nyheter,

of 25 November 1963 states Lee OSWALD passed through.

Sweden during October 1959. Article also adds that

OSWAID was unsuccessrul in obtaining visa to the ussh

in Helsink which resulted in his returning to Stockholm.

to deys after he arrived in Stocknolm OSWArD traveled

directly to Moscow Concluding sentence of article

states Mis indicates that the Russian Imbassy (Stockholm)

gave him a visa.y According to a reliable source there was

no record that there was any request for à USSR visa pro-

cessed through normal Channels for OSWALD at any time dur

ing 1959, and source indicated it was difficult to explain

hon OSWALD might have received his visa in two days with,

out going through normal channels. The only conclusion

which can be drain is that OSWALD must have received ais

visa directly from the Soviet Embassy In Stockhoin which

occasiona 11y is done In special cases, but the source had

no evidence to confirm this assumption nerd

The information contained in the foregoing paragraph is flatiy

at vertance with the other CIA report, previously mentioned, to the effect

that Oswald stayed in Helsink after having arrived there on October 10,

with the information obtained fron Oswald's American passport, with his

cow statement. to the American Embassy 1n Moscow on October 31, 1959, and

with the documentary material given us by the Russian Government

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makes no sense it the intent was to facilitate Oswelals return to his native

country. it does make sense, howevery if Marina wes no portant to the

contemplated use of oswald that the additional difficulties in connection

with repatriation which would be added by the marriage, were worthhtle.

It also makes sense, of course, on the hypothests that Marine herself,

rather than Oswald, Is the fussian agent. This latter conjecture, though

pechaps somewhat startling at first, is probably at least as plausible as

the conjecture that Marina and Oswald vere agents together. At the

questioning rhich Marina has undergone since the assassination has shown

that she is an intelligent, coolheaded woman. She had a rather unfortunate

affair with her business manager after the assassination which might have

been caused by her being carried avay by her emotions. This is not

necessarily evidence that she is not. cooly calculating, however. The

incident 1s equally explatnable as a simple'miscalculation on her part

that it was either necessary or destrable trom e survivel vienoint.

Moreover, it the russtans were anxtous to plant an agent in the United

States, marrying her to a repatriating defector woild be a comparatively,

easy means of transporting her here.

racte tending against the speculationg of the previous

paragraph include the followings

First, according to the statements of

Marina, herself and of her acquaintances, she learned practically no

English as long as her husband was alive. This was supposed to be mainly

Because he wes so jealous of her that he feared even this small degree of

independence on her part, but also because the was so exclusively home

and children ordented that she Just did not care to make the effort to

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when she testified to the Camission that, as just related, osweld

had told her that he was going and why. The few witensses we have who

spoke with orald ville he wes on a bus going to Medco City contirm what

Marina has stated, that Oswald's intent was to evade the travel ban by

reaching Cuba by way of Mexico.

The. Mexican lar enforcement authorities and the CIA and ret

have all carried on extensive investigations within Mexico of Lee Harvey

Orald's activities there. These three groups have produced evidence

wich appears quite firm that when Oswald appeared at the Cuban and.

Soviet Embassies he told then that his destination was fussia, not

Cuba, and that he only wanted an "in-transit" vise for Cuba in order that

he might visit that country on his way to the Soviet Union. When he

visited these embassies be carried with him newspaper clippings, letters

and various documents (some lorged by hinsel?) purporting to show that

he was a "friend of Cuba.". With these papers, and with his proven record

of previous residence in the Soviet Taion and marriage to a Soviet national

he tried to curry favor with both embassies, but the attempt seeningly

falledo its last known telephone call to the fussian Embassy in Mexico

City ended with the Consular official with whan he was talking hanging, up

in the middle of a question oswald was trying to ask, and Merina has

testified that when she first saw him after his return to the united.

States he was discouraged and convinced that he would never reach Cuba.

When questioned on the discrepancy between hls teising her

that he wanted to get to Cuba and his, telling the Cuban and fusstan

Embassies that his ultimate destination was Russia, Marina answered

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residency in the Soviet Unton which related to one of the aforementioned.

seven areas of particular interest or which "night othervise be of interest

to the Commission. No such volunteer statements were forwarded to us by

the Soviet Goverment. A second possibly suspicious circumstance we have

observed is that a-very high percentage of the signatures other than

Oswald's on the docunents are stated by our translators to be illegible

or missing. Eve belteve that this right be significant because one of the

few 'independent checks the CIA has on documents from the Soviet Union

is the names they include. The CIA, for example, has trequently been

able to tell us that a certain nme in a letter to Oswald from a Russian

acquaintance probably belongs to a person living at a certain city at a

certain address, working at a certain plant, belonging to certain organd

rations, etc. Ithis land of verification has been rendered impossible,

either acetdentally on on parpose, in the documents siven to us te

have asked the CIA's opinion on this point, bút so far have not received

it®

An Overal Assessment of the

Likelihood of Soviet Involvement

The Commission has been able to gather an impressively large

amount of material on lee Barvey Oswald's life in fussia and in the

United States arter he retumed from Russia, and a considerable amount of

material on Marina as well Much of this has been examined in this

menorandu, and over the last lew months virtually all of it has been

malyzed, in detail by members of the staft of the Cormission or by

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"One arrangement he made, for example, was to have passport photographs

taken, for use in his application for a Cuban visa.) By late Saturday

artemoon, September 28, however, he had pretty mich hit a blank well

at both embasstes. The Fussians had told him sumly that they had sent.

a telegram to washington about him, but that that was all they had authority

to dos they could take no further action until Washington authorized

them to do so, and that would probably be tran five to SiX months later.

The Cuban Inbassy had even more fimly informed hin that he could not get.

an in transity visa to visit Cuba unless he could Cret show them a

visa to visit Russia, so he was left with very little to do with either

Embassy except to recontact the Russian one occasionally in the faint hope

that they night have received an early reply to the telegram they supposedly

had sent to Washington.

At the Cuben Embassy he even got lato a light

with the Consti, busebio Asque, because he insisted no otrongly that

as a "friend of Cubals," he ought to be given a visa, So from Sunday

through Wednesday moming, October 2, when he left Mexico City on a bus

bound for the United States, apparently about alf he did e or all that.

ve lorr about unat he did - was to make his travel amangements, see the

sights of the city and check a couple more, times by telephone with the

Russian Imbassy to see if a reply to the telegran had arrived.

Our evidence, that the events set out in the foregoing parserah

occurred is solid. It La obtained from several sources, the most ima

portant being the direct testimony of senora Silvia Duran, the Mexican

clerk at the Cuban Fibassy wao dealt with Osweld, and certain highly

confidential sources employed by the CIA. The question Is not unether

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those events occurred, but nether they were perheps only a cover up for

other, more sinister activities going on at, the same time. This to where

the varous runors and claims of conspiracy come. into consideration.

Sone of then will be considered in detatt later, but at this point 16 le

enough to say that they almost all bosl down to some sort of allegation

that the Cubans passed money to Oswald whtle he was in Medico City, ao

payment for assasstnating the President, we have been informed by the

Central Intelligence Agency that runors focusing around a large mount of

money having been handed to Oswald while he was in Mexico City (the most

comonly mentioned sum was $5,000) were current in Mexico City almost

irmediately after the assassination. The fact that these runors were

curreat should be kept in mind in assessing the information which follows.

In order that the Camission may directly assess sone of the

important bite of evidence bearing upon Oswela's contacts with the Cuban

and fussten Imbasstes, ne have attached hereto two documents. The Cirst.

s a transcript of his telephone conversations with the embassies and the

second is another transcript together with coments by the CIA, offa

telephone conversation between two very high Cuban officials.

We have also recopied the essentials of the statement made

by Stavia Duran, the Mexicen employee of the Cuban Consulate in Mexico

City woo dealt with Oswald, when she was questioned by the Mexican police

shortis after the assassination, The CTA has information from highly

secret sources in Mexico which Indicates that Senora Duran ves telling

the truth. Her statement, as forwarded to us bysthe Mexican goverment,

wis as follows:

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telephone conversations with the word, "Adios." Mies. Roberts! statements

on this subject inter that these conversations were carried on in some

foreign language described by her as "German or Russian I Fron this it

In turn can be inferred that the conversations alluded to vere with Marina,

because they would have been in Russian, and ie have other evidence, which

is quite firm, that he telephoned Marina almost every night. It this is

the case, then the fact that he signed off with the word "Adlost has no

particular significance. When Marina testified to the Commission she said

that she does remember her husband occasionally using that term. If,

however, the word "Adios" was used during an Inglish-language conversation;

we have, perhaps, an important mexplained piece of evidence. Virs. Roberts

is scheduled to be requestioned on this point.

The top local offictals of both the CIA and the FET in Mexico

stated to representataves of the Commission during thetr visit to that city

an April 1964 that, in their professional opinion, there was ho conspiracy

involving Lee Harvey Oswald or the assassination which had contacts. in

Mexico, Both men based their opinions upon their belief that 3f there had

been any such conspiracy, although they might not by this time have been

able to solve it, their sources of information and investigatory capabilities

were sufficiently good so that they would at least have received some fim

indication or "hardi evidence of its existences: The absence of any such

evidence has convinced them that tee fervey Osvelals trip to Mexaco wes

in all probability nothing more than it purported to beat an unsuccesshul

attempt to reach Cuba, In addition, since the time when the foregoing

opinions vere expressed, the CIA has succeeded in plenting a spy very bigh

In the Cuban military intelligence circles. He reports that so far, at:

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appeared at their Imbassy to try to get a Visa. Unfortunately, however,

although the means of investigation at our disposal in Mexico have in our

opinion been Stretched to the utmost, there still remain gaps in our 12

mowledge of what Oswald did while be was there. Essentially, for Sunday.

Monday and Tuesday, September 29 through October 2, we can fini in onlt

about five or six hours of his time, plus whatever time he, slept. The

final ansver to the meaning of the Mexican trip, therefore, will probably

never be given

Finally, before ending our discussion of possible Cuban inyolver

ment, we would like to set forth in summary fashion some of the rimors and

allegations of Cuban conspiracies which have come to our attention. In

our opinion, only two are sufficiently serious to merit a detatled state-

rent. These are sumarized below.. The other runors. are very briefly

sumarized, and references to the basic fBI or CIA sources dealing with then

are given, in an appendix hereto.

1. Statement of Pedro Gutierrez Valencia:

On December 2, 1963 Senor Pedro Gutierrez Valencia wrote a

letter to President Johnson; in Spanish, in which be stated that in the

course of bis duties as a credit investigator for a large department store

in Mexico City he was in the Cuban imbassy in Mexico City on September 30, M

1963 or October 1, 1963 for the purpose of conducting an investigation

of one of its employees. The letter went on to say that as he was leaving

the embassy he overheard a heated discussion in/Inglish between two men,

one a Cuban and the other an American, in which he could inderstand only

the words, "Castro," "Cuba," and "emedy " The Cuban was counting out

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about two blocks apart.. It therefore seems unlikely that if Oswald had

been at the Cuban Embassy he would have telephoned the Russian Embassy

rather than walked over there, especially since by this time he was familiar

with the personnel. However, it is also possible that he believed that

he could get through to speak to the Consul ii he telephoned, whereas if

he showed up in person he might be rebuffed by the receptionist or the guard

who by that time may have been able to recognize him and under orders to

keep bim out.

The CIA and FBI representatives with whom we have discussed this

investigation point out that although they by no means rule out the accuracy

of Gutierrez' observations for this reason alone, it is unlikely that money

would be passed for a sinister purpose in such an open manner as was al-

legedly observed by Gutierrez. First, it is unlikely that an agent would

be paid off right at the embassy or the consulate. Second, even if he

were, the payoff would more probably be carried out in the privacy of a

room. Nevertheless, investigation is continuing.

Unfortunately, Gutierrez' description of the automobile allegedly

driven by the Cuban, a light tan Renault, happens to be a very popular

make and color in Mexico City. A car ansvering this description was on one

occasion observed in the vicinity of the Cuban Imbassy and has been traced

down through the records of the automobile-registration division in Mexico.

The present ower cannot be ascertained, however, because the registration

of the automobile (as is common in Mexico) has been maintained under the

name of the original owner, tho orned it several years ago, in order to

avoid the payment of transfer taxes.

Efforts to trace the automobile fron

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orner to oner, beginning with the first, have been unsuccessful.

Surveillance of the Cuban Imbassy is being maintained in the hope that the

-vehicle will reappear. - Other lines of investigation have also been -

followed out, for example, photographs of persons seen entering or leaving

the Cuban Embassy at about the time when Gutierrez was there have been

examined, Gutierrez has tried to regain access to the Cuban Embassy so

that be can determine those credit he was investigating, etc., all so

far with negative results.

2.

Statement of Gilkerto Alvarado Ugarte.

On November 26, 1963, Gilberto Alvarado Ugarte, a 23-year-old

Nicaraguan secret agent, at the time seeking to penetrate the Castro

forces in Cuba by going to Cuba from Mexico to receive guerrilla training

on the island, came to the American Embassy in Mexico City and declared

that he had witnessed Lee Harvey. Oswald receiving a payoff to kill the

President in the Cuban Embassy on September 18. Alvarado said that Oswald

was given $6,500, $5,000 as compensation and $1,500 for expenses.

Alvarado

recited that at noon on the l8th of September he went to the Cuban Consulate

to turn some passport photographs over to the Consul, Eusebio Ascue, to be

used in the fabrication of false travel documents so that he could leave

Mexico for Cuba. He sat in the waiting roam and saw a group of approximately

eight persons enter the Consulate and go into Ascue's office and noticed

that someone other than Ascue was sitting at Ascue's desk. He then asked

a Cuban Consulate employee where the bathroom was, was told, and proceeded

out of the waiting room in the given direction. While standing by the

bathroom door, he said, he saw a group of three persons conversing in a

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The comment made on Alvarado by the CIA field man on November 26 was,

"He is young, quiet, very serious person, who speaks with conviction,

knows enough. English to understand conversation.!!

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Alvarado vas, of course, irmediately subjected to intensive

interrogation and investigation. Apparently even before he appeared at

the Embassy on the 26th of November American intelligence knew that he

was an agent for Nicaraguan anti-Cormunist forces. American intelligence

checked back with Nicaragua and had this fact confirmed but learned that

the Nicaraguans had no knowledge of Alvarado being in Mexico at that

time, and they said that his presence there, as far as they were con-

cerned, was unauthorized. They added that they knew nothing about any

assignment of his to penetrate the Castro guerrilla training operations

in Cuba. Apparently Alvarado was doing this on his own. (Ultimately,

this part of Alvarado's story was to remain unshaken. Apparently he was

indeed on his way to Cuba and had had dealings with the Cuban Consulate

in Mexico. CIty in connection with preparation of false travel documents.

Whether he was doing this as a soldier of fortune, out of conviction for

the Castroite cause or to place himself in a position where he would later

be able to cormand a higher price from the Nicaraguan and other anti-

Cammunist intelligence agencies for his information, we do not know.)

Both the Mexican and American authorities continued to interrogate

and cross-check Alvarado's story. On November 30 the CIA was informed by

the Mexican police that Alvarado had admitted to them in writing that his

whole story about Oswald was false. He said that he had not seen Oswald

at all, and that he had not seen anybody paid money in the Cuban Embassy.

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it was on a Tuesday, September 17, rather than September 18. (Alvarado

did not know it at the time, but the l7th would make it even more

likely than the l8th. On September 17 Oswald appeared at the

Louisiana State Unemployment Carmission in New Orleans and also

cashed a check from the Texas Employment Camission at the Winn-

Dixie Store Number 1125 in New Orleans. On the basis of the poly

graph results and the qualified retractions made ky Alvarado when

he saw the results, and on the basis of discrepancies

which appeared

in his story, the CIA in Mexico City concluded that in all probability

he way lying, and that the reasons he gave to the Mexican police for

Iving were probably sincere. No further investigation of the Alvarado

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and they were therefore dropping him. "Leopoldo" is also reported to have

said "Leon" would do anything, saying that Leon had "laughed at" the

Cubans, claiming they had "no guts." "It would be easy to kill Kennedy

after the Bay of Pigs," he allegedly told Leopoldo.

Mrs. Odio is reported to have suffered a severe pshchological

reaction at her place of employment when she first saw Lee Harvey Oswald's

picture on television after the assassination, presumably because she was

struck by the fear that her own group was somehow involved in the killing

of the President

On November 1, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald mailed a letter to the

Cormunist Party in New York City. Among other things he mentioned that

he had attended a meeting in Dallas on October 23, 1963 of a group headed

by General Walker; investigation has led to the conclusion that this must

have been an anti-Castro meeting.

With the sole exception of Hrs. Odio — and even she is now

apparently changing her story - every member of the Dallas anti-Castro

Cuban connunity who has been questioned on Lee Harvey Oswald denies ever

having observed him or having had any contacts with him whatever prior to

the assassination.

Nor has any member of that camunity come forward to

volunteer any information as to contacts with Oswald. However, Mrs.

Odio has been checked out thoroughly through her psychiatrist and friends;

and, with one exception - a layman who speculates that she may have

subconscious tendencies to over-dramatize or exaggerate - the evidence is

unanimously favorable, both as to her character and reliability and as to

her intelligence. She is under psychiatric treatment for a disease

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rare in American women but apparently common among European women, known

as "grand hysteria," the primary symptom of rhich is occasional blackouts.

According to her psychiatrist, the symptons cefinitely do not include

hallucinations. It was one of these blackouts that she had when she first

observed Oswald on television after the assassination. Moreover, some of

the details of Mrs. Odio's story, as it was first related to the FBI

after the assassination - unfortunately, in a rather brief interview -

check with what we now know about Oswald. For exple: he was described

as quiet and reticent, an impression Oswald usually gave; "Leopoldo"

later told Mrs. Odio they had checked back on him in New Orleans, which

is where Oswald in fact had come from; Leopoldo siid he was told by New

Orleans that "Leon" was "loco," a term Carlos Bringuier may very well have

used to describe him; and most importantly, of course, the name "Leon

Oswald" is so close to "Lee:Oswald" as to raise the strongest suspicions.

Even il it was only "Ieon," there is a similarity. We contemplate taking

Irs. Odio's deposition at the earliest opportunity, in an effort to

follow this lead.

The evidence here could lead to an anti-Castro Cuban involvement

in the assassination on some sort of basis as this: Oswald could have

become knot to the Cubans as being strongly pro-castro. He made no'

secret' of his sympathies, and so the anti-Casiro. Cubans must have realized

that the law enforcement authorities were also aware of Oswald's feelings

and that therefore, If he got into trouble, the public would also

learn of them.

The anti-Cuban group may even have believed the fiction

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