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SILVIA TIRADO BOZAN DE DURAN
Personal information taken from her interrogations on 23 and
23 November 1963:
Silvia Tirado de DURAN stated she ,.s Mexican
by birth, 26 years old, married, no religion, employed,
address in Dept. 3, house no. 143 Constifuyentes, Mexi-
co City; that she has been married to Hot±acio DURAN
Navarro since 5.November 1958 and that they have a
daughter named Patricia three and one-half years old;
that in July or August of 1961, she was offered em-
ployment as coordinator at the Mexican-Cuban Institute
of Cultural Relations, then headed by Lic. Augustin
Cue CANOVAS. That since that time she had frequently
visited officers of the Cuban Embassy, having personal
friendship with Ambassador PORTUONDO, the cultural
attaches Teresa PROENZA and Luis.ALVERU as well as
with other employees. Her contacts were principally
with Maricarmen OLAVARRI, Secretary to Consul Eusebio
AZCUE, a Spaniard and relative of AZCUE, and who re-
ceived 500 pesos monthly.
In December 1961 she and her husband made a trip
to Havana by plane. They paid for their own tickets,
but all other expenses of their visit to all the is-
lands were paid.by the Cuban Institute of Freindship
with the Peoples (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los
Pueblos - ICAP) and the Cultural House.
She sympathized with the Cuban movement since its
beginning; that she was a coordinator of the Mexican-
Cuban Institute of Cultural Relations since July or
August 1961 and that she studied for the career of an
English-Spanish secretary at the Escuela Bancaria.
She mastered English, knows some French, and is study-
ing philosophy. She has a leftist ideology, by con-
viction, and is in accord with communism, but does not
belong to any political group nor has she participated
in meetings or acts of this nature. That officers of
the Cuban Embassy, incldtding the Consul, have been in
her home; that she knows almost all the principal lef-
tists in Mexico without being a friend of them; that
except for one visit to Brownesville, Texas, she has
not been in the United States.
[Memorandum for Mr. J. Lee RANKIN, dated 21 February 1964,
from Richard HELMS, Deputy Director for Plans; Subject:
Translations of Interrogation Reports of Silvia DURAN.]
She said she knew Carlos LECHUGA Hevia who was
Cuban Ambassador in Mexico and who arrived here when
she was working as Coordinator in the Mexican-Cuban
Institute of Cultural Relations. She became friendly
with this person but she never did any personal work
for him. She said that this Ambassador came to her
house to visit her on the occasion of a party which
she held. She considers him as a friend and she saw
him frequently
She said that while she was'working in the afore-
mentioned Institute, and before working as a secretary
in the Consulate she went to the Cuban Fmbassy to help
Teresa PROENZA. The help she rendered there consisted
of answering the telephones and doing secondary tasks.
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