CABLE - TRANSLATION OF CONVERSATION CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO JOAQUIN HERNANDEZ ARMAS RETURNS THE CALL TO PRESIDENT DORTICOS OF CUBA.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 11/27/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Assassination Records Review Board

Final Determination Notification

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER: 104-10015-10199

RECORD SERIES

: JFK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

: 201-289248

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

LaBeA:Al S5155 late:

06-06-201

November 3, 1995

Status of Document:

Postponed in Part

Number of releases of previously postponed information: 5

Reason for Board Action: The Review Board's decision was premised on several factors

including: (a) the significant historical interest in the document in question; (b) the

absence of evidence that the release of the information would cause harm to the United

States or to any individual.

Number of Postponements: 1

Postponement # 1 (Page 1):

Reason for Board Action: The text is redacted because it discusses sources and methods that properly may

be withheld under Section 6(1)(B) of the JFK Act.

Substitute Language: See Document

Date of Next Review: 2005

Board Review Completed: 09/21/95

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CABLE - TRANSLATION OF CONVERSATION CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO JOAQUIN

HERNANDEZ ARMAS RETURNS THE CALL TO PRESIDENT DORTICOS OF CUBA.

11/27/63

DATE

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SUBJECTS : ARMAS, JOAQUIN

DORTICOS

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3. TAPES BEING SAVED.

4. IN THIS CONVERSATION CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO JOAQUIN

HERNANDEZ ARMAS RETURNS THE CALL TO PRESIDENT DORTICOS OF

CUBA.. THE CALL TOOK PLACE AT 1939 HRS (MEXICO CITY TIME).

5. THE RESUME: "AMBASSADOR HERNANDEZ ARMAS APOLOGIZES

TO PRESIDENT DORTICOS FOR HAVING BEEN LATE IN CALLING HIM,

BUT BECAUSE OF AN INTERRUPTION ON THE LINE, HE HAS NOT DONE SO

UNTIL NOW. HE ADDS THAT 'I SPOKE WITH THIS PERSON AND DID NOT

ADD ANY THING IMPORTANT TO WHAT I HAVE ALREADY INFORMED AND

WHICH I RATIFIED VERBALLY. AND WITH RESPECT TO THE CONCRETE

POINT WHICH YOU ASKED ME ABOUT, SAYS THAT THERE WAS NO OFFER

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OF ANY KIND. ' DORTICOS: 'NO...I WASN'I ASKING ABOUT AN OFFER. '

HERNANDEZ ARMAS: 'AH, I HAD UNDERSTOOD THAT WITH THE CONFUSION

OF THE ...

' DORTICOS: 'NO, I WAS REFERRING AS TO WHETHER THEY

HAD THREATENED HER SO THAT SHE WOULD MAKE A STATEMENT THAT

THE CONSULATE HAD GIVEN MONEY TO THE MAN... THAT AMERICAN...

UNDERSTAND?' HERNANDEZ ARMAS: 'AH, NO, NO, NO, NOT AT ANY

MOMENT. ' DORTICOS: 'NOTHING OF THAT?' HERNANDEZ ARMAS: 'NO,

NO, THAT NOTHING ABSOLUTELY WAS GIVEN TO HER... RATHER THEY

(ENDEREZAR - STRAIGHTENED OUT?) THE INTERROGATION...' DORTICOS:

'THEN WE CAN GO ALONG WITH THE VERSION OF YOUR INFORMATION?'

HERNANDEZ ARMAS: 'YES, SR. PRESIDENTE, OF COURSE. ' DORTICOS:

'THEN NOTHING MORE OF IMPORTANCE?' HERNANDEZ ARMAS: 'NO,

NOTHING IMPORTANT. • ANYWAY; I AM GOING TO SUBMIT SOON A DRAFT

OF ALL THE DETAILS, BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER DETAILS OF MINOR

IMPORTANCE, AND OTHERS OF NONE AT ALL, BUT CONTAINED IN THE

STATEMENT... AND I HAVE ASKED HER TO MAKE ME A DRAFT AS

PROLIFIC AS POSSIBLE AND TO SUBMIT IT AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY. '".

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