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104-10429-10054 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/31/1964)

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                  SUBLCT:   Flight  .from Mexico City to Havana on 22 November 1963

                  REFERENCE:  1.  What is the total CIA information on the two flights
                                  from Mexico City. to Havana?

                              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 International
                  airport at 1620 hours (Mexico City time) and departed on a return flight to
                  Havana between 1940 and 2035 hours (Mexico City time) the same day. .It was
                  on the ground in Mexico City about 4 hours which would be considered normal
                  for servicing for a turnaround flight carrying passengers both ways. .This
                  information was obtained from sensitive reliable sources in the process of
                  routine operating procedures on 22 November .1963. 1/

                      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 passengerawho 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 investigatioi.
                  ihere 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 between 1640 and 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.

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