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104-10103-10340 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/9/1965)

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ARA-  George Lister

Visit of Cuban Exile Victor Espinosa,


July 9, 1965


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     In accordance with our conversation yesterday .-I have. set
forth below. a-report ..on the -visit..of Victor Espinosa..n .

     A Venezuelan Christian Democratic friend of -mine, Valmore
Acevedo  called me-from New York. City .yesterday morning&.to . ask
as. a .personal, favor:-that .I receive a Cuban :exile .-living. there
who had something. amazing' to tell men  henl  expressed:-mild
skepticism, Acevedo. urgently repeated his :request and I agreed,
Within a surprisinglysshort:2 time the Cuban ,.Victor Espinosae
arrived-at my-office (he:said he.bad. taken -:the plane. immedi-.!:
ately):;. Espinosa gave-,his,.address, and.telephone number as
follows:  415 East 52nd Street, HA 1-7875,  A summary of his
statements . follows.,-                            7

      spinosa.bas -beentinvolved in Cuban liberationactiv ties
for many years.  He opposed.-Batista and opposes-Castro  de is
not a-member ofthe  March413 Movement, but-has long been very
close-to many of -its-leaders, including Cubelai. Espinosa ;was
trainedhy  CIA,. in:-.both.. Louisiana .and- Guatemala,,and was one
of those who was..sent into Cuba -prior to the Bay of Pigs- He
plans,. to become an-American -citizen. in August of .this -year...
He admires the United. States.. and American. strength and.compe-
tence -in many fields. ..He asked a New York acquaintenance-of:
his for. the..name of -someone in ..the Department; involved in
Latin American affairs. ..He-was told.-Acevedo knew such an
official.  Espinosa asked Acevedo (without, he claims, re-
vealing his story), and. the latter- called me.

     A little earlier this year Espinosa received a request
from one. of hia reliable Cuban conta.cts in--Europe, asking that
he come there- quickly.. Espinosa went to Miami, obtainedfal'Ae
Cuban papers, and went to Paris.  There, -apparentlyin -the
presence of the Cuban Ambassador -to France,-he met one of the
top security men of the Castro regime, who--had come to--.Paris
for that purpose.  During variou's meetings, both. in -France -and


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