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104-10067-10056 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/28/1968)

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                                                      28 February 1968




             MEMORANDUM

             SUBJECT:        Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination:
                             Allegations of Involvement, CIA and Cuban


                    1. Mr. Calvin Thomas  of the SB Division wrote a memorandum
             entitled 'Possible DRE Animus Toward President Kennedy and dated
             8 March 1967. At that time Mr. Thomas had recently returned from a
             tour of duty in Yugoslavia. While there he had read about the Warren
             Commission's investigation and had noted the pre-assassination encounter
             in New Orleans between Carlos Bringuier of the Student Revolutionary
             Directorate (DRE) and Lee Harvey Oswald. He recalled his own dealings
             in Miami with the'.DRE, a CIA-subsidized group. He considered the
             DRE members   whom he knew to be unpredictable and untrustworthy. He
             speculated as to whether DRE elements could have been involved in the
             Kennedy assassination. He recommended  that CIA investigate this
             possibility if it had not already done so. Thomas was assigned to Miami
             from July 1962 to August 1963. Neither CI/R&A nor SB has a retention
             copy of the memorandum, but Mr. Thomas  is still at Headquarters.

                   .2. Mr. Arthur Dooley of CI/R&A discussed this matter with the
             following members of WH/COG:

                          a.   tes    ag              She stated that CIA's
                   interest in the DRE had been made known to the office of the
                   Attorney General by letters of 9 January and 18 April 1963
                   addressed to J. Walter Yeagley. The earlier letter said, in
                   part. The DRE  is of interest to this Agency which sponsors
                   and supports its propaganda and intelligence collection activity
                   in the Western Hemisphere . . . as the DRE is not a group
                   under complete Agency control, the above does not insure that
                   they will not undertake isolated paramilitary operations without
                   prior notification.

                          b.  Mesars.L               ithen recently returned
                   from a tour of the Miami Station, and Carl Trettin, DC of the
                   CI Branch, WH/COG,   who knew Bringuier and was stationed

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