Originator: FBI
From: LEG, MX
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 03/10/1964
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-10158-10018

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

• AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10158-10018

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-82555-2606

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LEG, MX

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 03/10/1964

PAGES: 6

SUBJECT: LHO, POST-RP, SIGHTING, NUEVO LAREDO, MX

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

02/01/1994

Redact

UPDATE DATE:

02/12/2001

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

Consultation

JFK Act 6 (1)(A)

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

JFK Act 6 (4)

REFERRED TO CIA, US CUSTOMS

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

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MA? 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GL ERNMENT

Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI (105-02555)

DATE:

3/10/64

APPROPRIATE ACENCIES

ALD CUFIORS

LEGAT, MEXICO CITY (105-3702) (P)

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Date of Declassification

ENCLOSURES:

Enclosed for the Bureau are 30 copies of a letter-

head memorandum dated and captioned as ahoye

3/88.

REFERENCES:

Mexico City letter dated 1/13/64; Bureau cables

dated 1/25/64 and 2/12/64; Mexico City cables dated 1/27/64

and 3/5/64, re allegations of YLARIO ROJAS VILLANUEVA;

*Antstoo cable to Bureau, Dallas and houston dated 2/22/64;

Houston letterhead memorandum dated 2/28/64.

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ADMINISTRATIVE:

Declassify on pADre: FR

Copies of enclosed letterhead memorándum were dis-

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ICC-CIA

3/16/64-RIST

ne following Informatie exico City by memorandur

was received from WINSTONL

M. SCOTT,

"LEE HARVEY OSWALD" and is being set forth in thé

cover letter,

not tot En wiew of cInerequest that the information was

along with the memorandum mentioned below dated

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disseminated outside this office without prior

approval of the originating office l Mexico city

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STar Y0!

This memorandum set forth that

1717/64 a reply

was received Erem JACK STEWART,

Merida, Yucatani

7/85/60

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BY CLALASH

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CLASSITICATION

ACTION

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SECRET

described by SOLIS as: 30 years old, 5' 8"

, about

185 pounds, stocky, skin

'moreno, black straight

hair, mustache and

a long face.

He usually

works as a chauffeur or farmer. SOLIS said Eladio

VILLANUEVA Ramirez did not seem subject to aberrations.

Neither Daniel SOLls nor any of several other

contacts in Cozumel have heard of "Albert.'"

Y8(U)

airectea to the Legat

marked "SECRET,

set forth:

"the following additor information was

DANIEL SOLIS was reinterviewed In February 1964py

To question asked hashed the fetlowns an oation sepa

to questions asked him:

(u)

"SOLIS states he has not received either of

the two letters Eladio VILLANUEVA claims to have

sent him recently.

8(U)

"SOLIS again stated that he does not have any

notebook belonging to VILLANUEVA.

He said that 1f

$ (u)

such a notebook came to him he would forward. lt to

the address given.

"SoLIS stated that, according to his recollec-

tion, VILLANUEVA arrived In Cozumél in June 1963 and

left (about) 4 July 1963 aboard a ferryboat 'Alberto' @ (v)

for puerto Juarez.

"SOLIS recalls now that he had received some

three (3) letters from VILLANUEVA. These were mailed

1n Guadalajara and were sent in the months immed1-

ately following VILLANUEVA's departure from Cozumel.

SOLIS said he answered all three, and in the last

letter SOLIS wrote to VILLANUEVA he asked VILLANUEVA

to repay the 500 pesos ($40 U.S.) he had loaned

•VILLANUEVA. SOLIS said he never heard from VILLA-

NEVA after that.

"In one of the three letters, VILLANUEVA asked

SOLIS If he would llke to be a 'secret police agent!

in Cozumel.

SOLIS has no other information concerning & (v)

this.

SECREN

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SECRED

"SOLIS contends he had no information on pos-:

sible contacts VILLANUEVA might have had with Cubans

or Americans in Cozumel.

(u)

"SOLIS said that when VILIANUEVA was not work-

Ing as an 'albanil' (bricklayer), he spent his time

weeding and cutting brush at SOLIS' home. VILLANUEVA

was usually. in the hammock by 2030 hours. SOLIS and

VILLANUEVA sometimes visited the Mayalum Nightclub

tonther; VILIANUEVA did not appear to be much of a s(U)

"SOLIS said VILLANUEVA arrived in Cozumel with

a Sergeant Second Class 'POLO.'

'POLO' was arriving

at a new assignment at the Cozumel Military Base;

VILIANUEVA claimed to have met 'POLO': In Mexico City.

'POLO' came to SOLIS' house twice after VILLANUEVA

left, looking for VILLANUEVA.

"SOLIS claims that the three letters he received

from VILLANUEVA have all been burned."

SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA advised that after he interviewed

DANIEL SOLIS at Cozumel on 2/2104, SOLIS hinted that he might

have misinformed JACK STEWART cheering the length of ROJAS'

stay In Cozumel for the purpose of possibly protecting his

relative, ROJAS, who 1s actually the uncle of SOLIS! wife,

and also because he paid life a ention to the actual

length of ROJAS' stay.

4 He 22833

It is noted that other items contained in ROJAS'

notebook, which was obtained from SOLIS In Cozumel, were call-

ing cards, one

of which had the name on It of WALTER A. GATES,

Customs Agent, San Diego, California, U. S. Treasury Depart-

ment, and the other card had the name on it of REY L. HATCH, v

Customs Investigator; U. S.. Treasury, Laredo, Texas.

Upon Interview 3/5/64, ROJAS

advised he cannot

recall who these persons are nor how he came into possession

of their calling cards.

For information, It is known that

HATCH is a U. S. Customs Agent who was and may still be

stationed at Laredo, Texas.

By cable dated 1/25/64, the Bureau requested that

efforts be made to arrange a polygraph examination of ROJAS

tention

TIB

SECRET

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assassination plot of President KENNEDY was fabricated by

him, no further investigation is being conducted in the ROJAS

mattersy

It, is noted that the original of the signed state-

ment taken from ROJAS by the members of the Mexican Federal

Security Police at Guadalajara on 3/5/64 is contained in

the 1-A section of this file in this office.

(8 14)

SOURCES:

The confidential source abroad referred to in

enclosed memorandum is SA JOSEPH B. GARCIA, who conducted in-

vestigation at Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico, and Mexico CIty,

and who, along with SA

Intervlew of ROJAS on 1/22-23/64 at Guadalajara, and to whom,

along with SA HENRY J. PRATT, ROJAS admitted on 3/5/64 at

V

Guadalajara, Mexico, that he had never known OSWALD.

The second confidential source abroad mentioned in

enclosed letterhead memorandum 1s SA

EDWIN O. JOHNSON.

CLASSIFICATION:

The enclosed letterhead memorandum has been classi-

fied "CONFIDENTIAI" In order to protect our foreign operations: u

COPIES:

Two copies of enclosed letterhead memorandum are

designated for Dallas as domestic office of origin.

LEAD:

MEXICO CITY

At Mexico.

Will continue to vigorously and

immedlately handle all Investigation growing out of leads In

this case and report results promptly.

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