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MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT,
Garrison Investigtion of Kennedy Assas sination
Allegationsl of Involvement. CIA and Cuban
1. Mr. Calvin Thomas of the SkB Division wrote a memorandum
entitled Possible DRE Animus Toward President Kennedy and dated'.
s March 1967. At that time Mr. Thomas had recently returned roan a
tour of duty in Yugoslavia. While there he had read about the Warren
Commission's investigation and had noted the pr-Stsean iluation encounter
in New Orleans between Carlos Bringuier of the Student sevolutionary
Directorate (DRE) and Lee Harvey Oswald. He .ecaoled his own dealings
in Miami with the DRE, a CIA-subsidized group. He considered the
DRE members whorn he knew to be unpredictable and untrustworty . He
speculated-as to whether DRE elements could have been involved in the
Kennedy assassination. He recommended that C A invstigate this
possibility if it had not already done so. Thomas was assigned to Miami
from July 1962 to August 1963. Neither CIRsA nor SB haq a retention
copy of the memorandum, but Mr. Thomas isstll at Headquarters.
2. Mr. Arthur Dooley of Cl/R&A discussed this matter with the
following memrbers of 1H/COG:
a. Miss Margaret F~orsythe. She stated that CIA's
interest in tle DRE had been made known to the office of the
Atore General by letters oL 9 January and 1~3 April 19oh3
a oddred to J. Waiter Yeagley. The earlier letter said, in.
part. The DRLE is of interest to this Agency which sponsors
and supports its propaganda and intelligence collection activity
in the Western Hemisphere . . a the DRE is not a group
under coaailete Agency control, the atoove does not insure that
they will not undertake isolated paramilitary operations without
prior notification.
b.M rthen recently returned
froni a tour of the and a Trettia, s of the
CE Branch, wH/COG, who knew Bringuier and was stationed
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