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104-10067-10056 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (02/28/1968)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch70628 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10067-10056 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 28 February 1968 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Garrison Investigation of Kennedy Assassination: Allegations of Involvement, CIA and Cuban 1 Mr. Calvin Thomas of the SB Division wrote a memorandum entitled Possible DRE Animus Toward President Kennedy and dated 8 March 1967. At that time Mr. Thomas had recently returned from a tour of duty in Yugoslavia. While there he had read about the Warren Commission's investigation and had noted the pre-assassination encounter in New Orleans between Carlos Bringuier of the Student Revolutionary Directorate (DRE) and Lee Harvey Oswald. He recalled his own dealings in Miami with the DRE, a CIA-subsidized group. He considered the DRE members whom he knew to be unpredictable and untrustworthy. He speculated as to whether DRE elements could have been involved in the Kennedy assassination. He recommended that CIA investigate this possibility if it had not already done so. Thomas was assigned to Miami from July 1962 to August 1963. Neither CI/R&A nor SB has a retention copy of the memorandum, but Mr. Thomas is still at Headquarters. .2. Mr. Arthur Dooley of CI/R&A discussed this matter with the following members of WH/COG: a. sss are ors e She stated that CIA's interest in the DRE had been made known to the office of the Attorney General by letters of 9 January and 18 April 1963 addressed to J. Walter Yeagley. The earlier letter said, in part, The DRE is of interest to this Agency which sponsors and supports its propaganda and intelligence collection activity in the Western Hemisphere . . . as the DRE is not a group under complete Agency control, the above does not insure that they will not undertake isolated paramilitary operations without prior notification. b. Messrs. f A-iarn kharithen recently returned from a tour of the Miami Station, and Carl Trettin, DC of the CI Branch, WH/COG, who knew Bringuier and was stationed Z~T 6 3

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