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104-10103-10062 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/22/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch38311 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-i1=310062 ~ {~ SUBJECT : Flights from Mexico City to.Havana on 22 November 1963 REFERENCE: 1. What is the total CIA information on the two-flights from Mexico'City totHavana? 2. What was done at the time to.develop further information on this matter? 3. Can further information be acquired on this matter now? FINDINGS: 1. The Mexico Station records confirm only one flight from Mexico City to Havana on 22 November 1963. This was the regularly scheduled Cubana Airlines flight. There were two reports of small aircraft flights (one a twin engine flight to Mexico City connecting with Cubana for onward transportation to Havana of a mysterious passenger; and the other a flight allegedly from Dallas, Tijuana, and Mexico'City to Havana with two gang- land type passengers.) Beyond the original reports (from sources of undetermined reliability) there was nothing in the Mexico Station records to substantiate that these flights occurred. 2. Facts substantiated by Mexico Station records: On 22 November 1963 a Cubana Airlines plane from Havana arrived at the Mexico City Inter- national airport at 1620 hours - Mexico City time and departed on a return flight to Havana at 2035 hours - Mexico City time. It was on the ground in Mexico City for about four hours which would be considered normal for servicing for a turn-around flight carrying passengers in both directions. This infor- mation was obtained from sensitive telephone taps in the process of routine operating procedures on 22 November 1963. 3. Report not substantiated by Mexico Station records: On 30 November 1963 CIA Headquarters cabled Mexico City that a report had been received that the 22 November 1963 Cubana departure had been delayed five hours from 1700 to 2200 hours awaiting an important passenger who arrived at the Mexico City airport in a private twin motor aircraft at 2130 hours Mexico time. Passenger transferred directly to Cubana plane without going through customs or immigration and travelled in pilot's cabin to Havana. 2/ This information was passed to the Mexican officials on 2 December 1963 for investigation. There is no record of a reply. We know from independent information in paragraph two above that some parts of this report are in error. The Cubana flight was not delayed for five hours. It had departed for Havana from Mexico City at 2035 hours which would be at least an hour before the twin motor aircraft was alleged to have arrived in.Mexico City. The source's name is on the manifest as a passenger from Mexico City to Havana but the time supplied by him does not agree with other information considered reliable. 4

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