MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: POSSIBLE DRE ANIMUS TOWARDS PRESIDENT KENNEDY
Originator: CIA
From: AEDOOLEY
Document date: 04/03/1967
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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LORANDU'S FOR THE PECORD

SUBJECT

:¿ Possible UPE Aninus TOiarus President Kennedy

REFERENCE:

Memorandum 8 "arcil 1967 sane subject

1966 and terminated our relationshi, completely on amiable

terms 1 January 1967. 1

3. According to the Warren Cormission Revort

(VOL. X, Pgs. 32-50), Lee Harvey Oswald approached Carlos

Bringuier, the New Orleans delegate of the Cuban Student

Directorate on 5 August 1363 and volunteered to join the

organization and to help train Cubans to fight against Castro.

Bringuiar turned him down believing sin to be either an FeI

informant or Comnunist penetration agent.

some friends of bringuier saw Oswald icaring a "llands off

Cuba" sign and distributing pro-Castro leaflets.

ported it to Brinquior who

street. A fight ensued and Bringuier and Oswald were ar-

rested.

On 21 August 1963 the two engaged in a radio rebate.

Oswald identified nimself as a Marxist and defended the

Castro cause.

Bringuier is referred to later in the arren

Commission Report as the Ner Orleans delagate to the Povo-

lutionary Student Directorate (VOL. XI, Pa. 159).

There is no doubt that the Commission actually

was referring to the Student Revolutionary Directorate

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DRE as we term it. Another anti-Castro organization mentioned. X

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in connection with the above incident ins the Information

council of the americas.

According to Paul Oberst, of the

Cusan Overations Grou: iCOC/Cal, CIA did not fund this

organization altiouri ie hai contacts it'

sore of its mem-

It is abundantly clear that the dri had no part

in the kennedy assassination.

Oswald was never a member

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Carl Trettin, Deputy Chief of the Counterintelligence Branch

of the Cuban Operations Group who krer Bringuier and was

stationed in New Orleans at the tire of the above incidents;

and Margaret Forsythe also of the Cuban desk who is thoroughly

familiar with the DRE operation.

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