DISCUSSION OF DURAN ARREST IN CUBAN EMBASSY.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 11/28/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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• EsTANTi g) REPORTED 21 NOV AFTER SILVIA DURAN FIRST ARREST

VAS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE GREAT DEAL DISCUSSION OF THIS IN

EMBASSY. SHE BACK IN OFFICE 23 NOV AND SEEMED QUITE PLEASED WITH

HER PERFORMANCE. HER ACCOUNT: INTERROGATION CONTAINED LITTLE NEW

EXCEPT POLICE HAD THREATENED HER WITH EXTRADITION TO U.S. TO FACE

OSWALD. SHE HAD NO FEAR OF CONFRONTATION. 19) DESCRIBES HER AS VERY-

INTELLIGENT AND QUICK WITTED.

2. OF ASSASSINATION ITSELF L'@ SAID THERE ALMOST NO DISCUSSION

IN EMBASSY, STAFF. MEETING 23 NOV VERY SHORT AND SOMBER WITH GENERAL

IMPRESSION BEING ONE OF SHOCK AND DISBELIEF. HEARD NO EXPRISSIONS

OF PLEASURE.

4S. LITANTL 7 SEEN NIGHT 27 NOV HAD NOTHING TO ADD TÓ ABOVI.

INDEED HER VERSION MUCH LESS DETAILED. NEITHER LE2) =7 LES, HAD

•ANY PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OSWALD PRESENCE CUBAN EMBASSY AT ANY TIME.

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