Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, MX
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 11/6/70
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_ NUMBER:

124-10073-10430

RECORD SERIES:

MX

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

105-3702-1369

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

LEG. MX

DIRECTOR. FBI

DATE: 11/06/1970

PAGES: 5

SUBJECT: SEE FBI 105-82555-5652

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Unclassified

08/12/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

06/08/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

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MAY 1982 EDITION

GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.8

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI (105-22555)

11/6/70

TO

Confid

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LEGAT, MEXICO CITY (105-3702)

(RUC)

FROM :

R

LEE HARVEY OSWALD

SUBJECT: IS - # - CUBA

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DADR

DATE:

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLAGSIRICATION AND/OR

RELE NESTROYED

dA INFORMATIOI

THIS DOCUMEET

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7503222/822 8//935FK

Reference Mexico City letter 10/14/62 in OSWALD case;

Mexico City letter 7/30/58 and Havana letter 8/23/58 entitle,

"TERESA PROENZA; SM - C;" and Mexico City

letter and LiM 10/5/70

entitled, "JORGE LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA; IS - CUBA" (Bufile 105-115365) .

PROENZA's full name appears to be MARIA TERESA

PROENZA PROENZA.

She is currently said to be in favana, Cuba,

after spending several years in Santa Clara Province under

near house arrest.

She now appears to have more freedom.

She is the sister of the wife of JORGE LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA,

a Mexican employee of the Cuban Aviation Company in Mexico City.

Her brother ALVARO ESTANISLAO PROENZA PROENZA resides in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is the subject. of an IS - CUBA

investigation.

TERESA PROENZA was the secretary of the Mexican

communist muralist DIEGO RIVERA prior to the revolution.

became an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City follow-

ing the revolution. She was described by her brother ALVARO

in 1965 as a "dedicated communist" and a "slave of the Cuban

communist government."

(5/70H14

3:0

The following information is extracted from the letter

and LiM submitted by Mexico City on 10/5/70 concerning JORGE

LUIS ROJAS MENDOZA and the efforts of his family to arrange

for his sister MARGOT ROJAS MENDOZA to leave Cuba and join the

family in Mexico:

According to information furnished byxax 197kon

9/21/70, the ROJAS family has become very embittered about the

Cuba situation and Mrs. ROJAS, whose full

name is CARIDAD

Classified by

20

6-Bureau

Exempt from eDS

(1-105-135744) (ALVARO PROENZA PROENZA Date of Declas

(1-54-29479) (TERESA PROENZA PROENZA)

(1-Foreign Liaison Desk)

1(1-Philadelphia) (105-17156) (ALVARO PROENZA PROENZA) (Info)

3-Mexico City

(1-100-1834) (TER$SA PROENZA PROENZA)

(1-105-0-9027) (ALVARO PROENZA PROENZA)

77-3

105.3107

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"CACHITA" PROENZA PROENZA DE ROJAS, Complained that Cuba has

become a police state and that Cuban authorities have the

family. "all tied up." ROJAS and his wife toldiEr 19ufthat

a Cuban communist named JUAN MARINE is a friend of the family.

On one trip to Cuba, CACHITA ROJAS asked him to look into the

situation of her sister TERESA PROENZA to see how it could

be straightened out.

MARINE recently visited Mexico "incognito"

and informed the ROJAS that the situation now is extraordinarily

good but that TERESA was once under a death sentence because

she had dealt with LEE HARVEY OSWALD while assigned to the

Cuban Embassy priorito the assassination of JOHN F. KENNEDY.

Her fiends_interceded for her and her life was spared. ROJAS

told cY 197* that MARINE warned them not to tell the Cuban

Embassy

in

matter

lexico city that he had spoisen to them about this

The source stated that JORGE ROJAS and his wife

do not know how to cope with the present situation. They

fear going to Cuba and they are speaking out against the Cuban

revolution in a most forthright manner.

The bitterness dis-

played by ROJAS: wife fay

can recall in the past.

is any

that the source

The source statea that some years ago, as best he

could recall, he heard JUANA LUISA PROENZA, a sister of CACHITA

who died some years ago, telling a similar story of how TERESA

PROENZA was somehow involved with LEE HARVEY OSWALD at the

Cuban Embassy.. At the time TERESA was employed at the embassy,

she lived with JUANA LUISA and another sister.

Within the

tamily it has always been said that JUANA LUISA Worried hersell

to death after Masa was ordered to Cuba. (k)

The Mexico City Office has conducted a review of

references to TERESA PROENZA especially those dealing with

OSWALD investigation and it is noted that as set forth in

Mexico City letter to the Bureau 1/24/64 in the OSWALD case

MUch 18 and MEX 19* both of whom have furnished reliable infor-

mation in the past, reported on 1/13/64 that they had conversed

with ELIZABETH CATLETT MORA, Bufile 100-395934, who told them

Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

MORA, TERESA PROENZA had told her that OSWALD walked in "cold"

to the Cuban Embassy and the first person he talked to was

PROENZA. Since PROENZA did not speak Inglish, she turned him 05)

2.

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Confi

MEX 105-3702

While

it is not clear

Iron available incornation,

it would appear

that PROINZA was able to return from Cuba

for a visit to

Mexico following her disnissal and departure

in "1/54.

By report

nated-1/14/55 the CIA reported on

the in-

vestigation by the Cuban governnent of old line communist

JOAQUIN CROOQUI MASA.

"In this report it was indicated that

TERESA PROSNEA had been

arrested at hes homes ang-wes-pelle,

held incommunicado

i

A review of the foregoing material indicates that

TERESA PRONZA got into trouble with the Cuban government more

as a result of her criticism of the handling of the OSWAlu

matter following the assassination of President KENNEDY than

because

anything she did when CSWALD visited the Cuban

Embassy.

Fer harsh criticisn of high Cuban officials (the

Ambassador

• and Toreign Minister) was apparently well known

in the embassy and hardly helped ner case. at rails to

indicate that she did anything for (SWALD that yould substantiate)

the remarks made by JORGE DOJAS and his wife tomlax l970that!

PURESA PROENZA had nearly been erecuted because of her activities

during OS"ALD's visit

to the Cuban Imbassy in 1983 In the

absence of additional information regarding this activity,

no

further investigation is contemplaied at this time.

It is

noted that it is not feasible to directly interrogate JORCE

ROJAS or his wife.

Rowever swEr 197 will closely follow this

matter with then and any additional, significant developments

will be called prompily to the attention of the Bureau. (X)-

One information copy is being

furnishec to philadelphi

* Concerning ALVAR

ALVARO said he was surrounded by

"gusanos" (referring to

cuban exiles in a derogatory manner) in Philadelphia K>-

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