REPORT ON INDIVIDUAL OF INTEREST IN ASSASSINATION CASE
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 09/18/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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AFTER REPEATED QUERIES TIPSTAFFS ON 17 SEPT HANDED US REPORT

ON SUBJECT REF. ACCORDING REPORT HE INTERVIEWED 9 SEPT AND GAVE

FOLLOWING:

A. HAD NEVER VISITED COUNTRIES OUTSIDE EUROPE AND HAD NOT

"LIVED IN CUBA FOR SEVEN YEARS" OR VISITED HAITI AS ALLEGED.

B. HAD DISCUSSED POLITICS AND SPOKEN OF SWEDISH COMMUNISM

AS WELL AS FIDEL CASTRO GOVI AND REVOLUTIONS SUPPORTED BY CASTRO

IN MEXICO AND VENEZUELA. HOWEVER POINTED OUT THESE TOPICS ALL IN

SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS.

C. WHEN ASKED WHETHER HE HAD FORETOLD ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY,

HE DENIED QUOTE ASCRIBED TO HIM AND SAID COULD NOT RECALL ANY SIMILAR

RECEDS OM INES STASAID HE KNEW NOTHING OF ASSASSINATION BEFORE IT HAPPENED.

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2. TIPSTAFF/A SAID SUBJECT HAD APPEARED SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED AS

IF ASHAMED STATEMENTS HE MADE WHILE DRUNK, BUT WAS NOT DEFENSIVE OR

BELLIGERENT. TENDED BELIEVE SUBJECT BUT IN ANY CASE FELT FURTHER

FOLLOWUP FRUITLESS.

3. THO STATEMENT PARA 1A ABOVE APPARENILY CONTRADICIS EARLIER

TIPSTAFF REPORT THAT SUBJECT WAS IN CUBA IN 1956

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BELIEVE SUBJECT WAS ONLY DENYING SEVEN YEAR RESIDENCE. WILL DOUBLE

CHECK WITH TIPSTAFFS.

4. POUCHING COPY TIPSTAFF MEMO 18 SEPT.

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C/S Comment:*Subject of Ridderstrale investigation will will be

re-opened with Foreiga Minist) in early September.

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