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104-10263-10047 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/9/1965)

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                                  ARA/CCA -'Mr. Stevenson                July 9,  1965

                                  ARA - Ceorge Lister

                                  Visit of Cuban E.:Lle Victor Espinosa


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

                              A Venezuelan Christian Democratic friend of mine, Valmore
                         Acevedo, called me fro  New York City yesterday morning L  ask
                         as a personal favor that I receive a Cuban exile living there
                         who had something amazing to tell me.  When I expressed mild
                         skepticism, Acevedo urgently repeated his request and I agreed.
                         ithin  a surprisingly short time the Cuban, Victor Espinosa,
                         arrived at my office (he said he had taken the plane immedi-
                         ately).  Espinosa gave his address suad telephone number as
                         follows:  415 East 52nd Street, PA 1-7875.  A sa   ry of his
                         statements follows.

                              Espinosa has been involved in Cuban liberation activities
                         for many years.  He opposed Batista and opposes Castro.  He is
                         not a member of the March 13 Movement, but has long been very
                         olose to many of its leaders, including Cubelas.  Espinosa was
                         trained by 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
                         Lis for the name of somtone in the Department involved in
                         Latin American affairs.  He was told Acevedo knew such an
                         afficial.  Espinosa asked Acevedo (without, he claims,. re
                         vealing his story), and the latter called me.

                              A little earler  thlat year Espinosa received a request
                         from one of his reliable 'Cuban contacts in Europe, asking that
                         he came there quickly.  Espinosa went to Miami, obtained faip
                         Cuban papers, and went to Paris.  There, apparently in the
                         resence  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. Durong various  naetingS, both in Franca and


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