Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, MX
To: ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 05/17/1973
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/6/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10214-10462

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 26-425217-25

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LEG, MX

TO: ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

05/17/1973

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DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

06/04/1998

OPENING CRITERIA :

INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note)

DATE: 11-14-2017

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EMBASSY OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cont

dential

DECLASSIFIED BY

OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE

MEXICO, D. F., MEXICO

Date May 17, 1973

ON

JFK

a request

was made to the Police Department at

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Comandante MARTIN MEJIA, who is

with the Secret Service (Detective Bureau of that department

voluntarily telephoned the Legal Attache's Office, American

Embassy,

information:

Mexico City, Mexico, and furnished the following

MEJIA stated that on May 22, 1971

he was an agent

of the Secret Service of the Guadalajara Police Department.

On that date, in the early evening hours between 7:00 and 7:30

P.M., he and

other Guadalajara policemen participated in the

arrest of JERRY BUCHANAN at Calle (Street) Puerto Melaque #1421,

Fraccionamiento El Mirador in Guadalajara. During the arrest,

BUCHANAN put up a struggle.

At the same

time, the police took

custody of a 1970 or 1971 Plymouth Barracuda, blue in color.

Vehicle Identification Number BH23G0E126020,

with Florida license

at this address.

plate 294-1647, which was parked in front of Buchane residenced u

MEJIA stated that BUCHANAN at the time identified the

car as his property although he later told another story in a

formal declaration given to Guadalajara Police. C(U)

Continuing, MEJIA said that this Plymouth had a

Mexican tourist sticker on the windshield showing that the

MEXICO

stated he removed from inside the car a Mexican tourist card

(FM-5) issued to MELVIN BLEETSTIEN with the address of 3423

Northeast 18th Court Baltimore, Maryland, and a Mexicar

temporary importation permit for the car issued to BLEETSTIEN

on May 19, 1971.

Also found in the car was a document' which

appeared to be a Virginia title, #4355, and

dated April 5, 1971,

which described this vehicle, and a number of blank birth

certificate forms.

*u)

MEJIA stated that he personally took the formal

declaration from BUCHAVAN during which BUCHANAN stated that &(Wl

On

5-16-73

at Mexico, D. F.. Mexico

File Mex 26-3458

Assistant Legal Attache

By

JOHN J. FOARDE, JR.

Date

Dictater 5-17-73

AU)

CLASSIFIED AND

REASONED or SofTeRiAled 5496-425217-25

FCIM, I1,

lits

(ENCLOSURE)

DATE OF

DECLASSIFICATION

5/12/2008.2

Confidential

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 05C 2107 Hote)

DATE: 11-14-2017

Confi

iential

MEX 26-3458

he was born in North Carolina, the son of JAMES BUCHANAN

and MARY WEST.

At this time,

BUCHANAN denied that the

Plymouth was his property and said it belonged to an individual

who he had met in a bar in a

Guadalajara hotel but that he could

only recall that this person's name was "MEL" and offered no

other information as to where this individual might be living

or how he might be identified and located. X-(U)

MEJIA stated that he speaks no English but that he

would be willing to appear to testify in the United States

il appropriate clearance was received from his supertors. f4)

Concluding, MEJIA stated that, with permission from

his superiors, he believed he would be able to bring the

formal declaration made by BUCHANAN to Guadalajara Police to

any court proceedings in the United States.

conferen,

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