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104-10216-10413 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/9/1965)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch45461 and id is 1 raw text is: 1104-10216-10413 ra- MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. John Hart FROM SUBJECT : Mr. Harold Swenson : CIA Operations and Plot to Kill FidelCastro, Raul Castro and Other Key Figures of the Present Regime in Cuba *1 ___ ___ :.___ ____7 SIMtW Ak __1___ I 1 '-1. & Source: Victor ESPINOSA Hernandez (201-285147), born 26 August 1937 in Cardenas, Matanzas, Cuba, a PM trainee who was terminated as a malcontent on 20 March 1961. Present address is 415 East 52 Street, NYC, where his telephone is HA 1-7875. Supplemental Data: ESPINOSA flew Air France from Orly Airport (confirmed by cachet in pp) on 29 May 1965 and on arrival in NYC the same day contacted an INS Agent named CAVASANJIAN (ph) who, on the basis of information in the story of ESPINOSA which appeared to affect U.S. security, notified the FBI. Special Agent Frank O'BRIEN of the NY- Field Office of the FBI interviewed ESPINOSA on 2 May 1965. The FBI notified us on 3 May. I saw ESPINOSA on 4 May in the NY field office of the FBI. Frank O'BRIEN was present. (O'BRIEN said that INS at Washington, D.C. apparently had received a report and had notified FBI headquarters from which 4 a supervisor had telephoned O'BRIEN to inquire whether O'BRIEN knew about aspects of ESPINOSA's story with derogatory allega- tions about the CIA, including ) Paraphrase of the source's story: 1. 1 do not have a high regard for the CIA or for most of the exiled Cubans but I am against the Castro regime for which reason I have become involved in these matters about which I must be sure the CIA is informed. I contacted the INS and the FBI because through them I could ensure contact * with a responsible CIA officer. 2. I was a good friend of Rolando CUBEIA/. We conspired together against BATISTA and we planned assassinations of Batista supporters. We carried out the killing of one of the SIM hiefs-la oft-Geinn, successfully. A lot of things the ---=-inti-BAT1STA students did were not effective but we did more than talk and this old assassination is proof that people like Rolando and myself act.. a

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