ALLEGATION BY SENIOR CUBAN DIPLOMAT CONCERNING THE ROLE OF CUBAN EXILES IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Originator: CIA
From: RAYMOND A. WARREN
To: OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Document date: 11/03/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMORAMON FOR:

LA/COG/258-77

3 NOV 1377

Office of the

Legislative Counsel

HIA

SA/ADDO.

FRON

SUBJECT

Raymond A. Warren

Chief, Latin America Division

Allegation by a Senior Cuban Diplomat

Concerning the Role of Cuban Exiles in

the Assassination of President Kennedy

1.

According to a fairly reliable source, a senior

Cuban diplomat

stationed abroad made certain charges in

late. September 1977 concerning the alleged role of Cuban

exiles

in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

This diplomat made these allegations to his colleagues

in the

course of an official meeting in his embassy. The

diplomat said, among other things,

that Cuban exiles

such as former

• Cuban

Air Force officer D 1

a z Lan (fnu)

and

others had

been involved in the assassination of

President Kennedy.

The diplomat referred to the assas-

sination

in the context of a security lecture in which

he claimed that counter-revolutionary activities by Cuban

exiles have increased in recent months:

tie said that

recent

information had arrived implicating Dia? in the

Kennedy assassination. The diplomat did not mention any

other Cuban exiles by name or provide any further details.

He did not

identify the source of his

infornation, although

cut source had the impression that the dipicat's ailogo.

tions were based on a

recent cable from the Cuban Ministry

of Foreign Affairs.

2.

This division has no other factual information

concerning the diplomat's allegations.

We beliove that

the basis for the diplomat's statement sas, probably, an

article which appeared in the New York "Daily News" on

20 Septenber 1977.

This article quoted Maritza

Loren

as saying that she, Orlando Bas

ch, Frank

i

s, Pedro

p i

a ?.

Lanz: to unnamed Cuban

calie brotheis and bee laives osiild corned

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assassination squad khich went to Dallas is assassinate

President kennedy.. lie anow of no information in our

files to substantiate

that allegation.

3.

Diaz

is à former chief of the Cuban Rebel

Air

Poice.:

He is not nor is there any record that hc

has

ever been an Agency asset, although he could have

been debriefed by us aftor he left Cuba.

agency as

4.

Tlicre have been various press articles in the

past alleging that

Lorenz was a CIA agent. She

is not ail agent or employee of this Agenc) nor is there

any information indicating that she ever was an agent

or employee of this Agency.

5.

The above information may be passed in part or

in its entirety to the House Select Committee on Assas-

sinations.

The FBI has already been informed of the

significant details in this matter.

Is George V. Lauder

Raymond A. Warren

DDO/LA/COG/CIOS/jEnkoji:rcv (1 Novenher: 1977, $9194)

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