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180-10142-10301 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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             SYLVIA DURAN'S PREVIOUS STATEMENTS RE LEE  HARVEY OSWALD'S

             VISIT TO THE CUBAN CONSULATE IN MEXICO CITY



                     On November 23, 1963, one day after  the assassina-

             tion of President John F. Kennedy, the Central  Intelligence

             Agency's Mexico City Station suggested to Mexican  officials

             that they arrest Sylvia Tirado de Duran.   (Mexi 7029 to

             the Director, Nov. 23, 1963; Note to Luis  Echevarria,

             November 23, 1963)  The Mexico City Station  asked that

             Sylvia Tirado de Duran be held incommunicado  until she told

             the Mexican officials everything she knew  about Lee Harvey

             Oswald.  The Mexican government arrested  Sylvia Tirado de

             Duran the same day.  Captain Fernando Gutierrez  Barrios,

             Assistant Director of the Federal Security  Police, interro-

             gated her at 6:00 p.m. that evening.  (CE 2121, p. 35)



             A. Version of Interrogation Given to  the Warren Commission

                By The Mexican Government

                     Ms. Duran stated that she became  secretary to the

             Consul, Eusebio Azcue, three months prior  to the assassina-

             tion of President John F. Kennedy, due  to the death of

             Maricarmen Olivari.  (Ibid. p. 37) She  stated that in late

             September or early October of  1963 a North American by the

             name of Lee Harvey Oswald appeared at  the Cuban Consulateb

             and applied for an intransit visa  to Russia by way of

             Cuba.  (Ibid. p. 39)  Duran stared that Oswald presented

                                                               Central Intelligence Agency
                                                               has no Objection to Release
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