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104-10213-10012 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/1/1963)

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SU3JECT : 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 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 Vexico 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 tine and departed on a return
flight to Havana at 2035 hours - Mexico City time. It was on the ground in
?exico 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 irportant passenger who arrived at the Mexico
City airport in a private twin motor aircraft at 2130 hours Mexico timre.
Passenger transferred directly to Cubana plane without going through customs
or imigration 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.

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