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104-10216-10413 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/9/1965)

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MEMORANDUM FOR:  Mr. John Hart


FROM

SUBJECT


:  Mr. Harold Swenson

:  CIA Operations and Plot to Kill FidelCastro,
   Raul Castro and Other Key Figures of the
   Present Regime in Cuba


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      Source:  Victor ESPINOSA Hernandez (201-285147), born 26
      August 1937 in Cardenas, Matanzas, Cuba, a PM trainee who
      was terminated as a malcontent on 20 March 1961.  Present
      address is 415 East 52 Street, NYC, where his telephone is
      HA 1-7875.

      Supplemental Data:  ESPINOSA flew Air France from Orly
      Airport (confirmed by cachet in pp) on 29 May 1965 and on
      arrival in NYC the same day contacted an INS Agent named
      CAVASANJIAN (ph) who, on the basis of information in the
      story of ESPINOSA which appeared to affect U.S. security,
      notified the FBI.  Special Agent Frank O'BRIEN of the NY-
      Field Office of the FBI interviewed ESPINOSA on 2 May 1965.
      The FBI notified us on 3 May.  I saw ESPINOSA on 4 May in the
      NY field office of the FBI.  Frank O'BRIEN was present.
      (O'BRIEN said that INS at Washington, D.C. apparently had
      received a report and had notified FBI headquarters from which
4     a supervisor had telephoned O'BRIEN to inquire whether O'BRIEN
      knew about aspects of ESPINOSA's story with derogatory allega-
      tions about the CIA, including )

      Paraphrase of  the source's story:

            1. 1 do  not have a high regard for the CIA or for most
       of the exiled Cubans but I am against the Castro regime for
       which reason I have become involved in these matters about
       which I must be sure the CIA is informed.  I contacted the
       INS and the FBI because through them I could ensure contact
*     with  a responsible CIA officer.

            2.  I was a good friend of Rolando CUBEIA/. We  conspired
       together against BATISTA and we planned assassinations of
       Batista supporters.  We carried out the killing of one of the
       SIM  hiefs-la   oft-Geinn, successfully. A lot of things the
   ---=-inti-BAT1STA students did were not effective but we did more
       than talk and this old assassination is proof that people
       like Rolando and myself act..


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