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104-10103-10336 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (07/09/1965)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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         Visit  of Cuban Exile Victor Espinosa.


     In accordance with our conversation yesterday-.I have set
 forthbelow a-report -on the .visit:.of Victor Espinosa,.

     A Venesuelan Christian Democratic friend of mine, Valmore
Acevedo; called mefrom  New York. City yesterday. morning&to ask
as- a- personal favor-.that*I receive a Cuban exile =living. there
whobad  something, amazing to tell me. -,(:WhenI .expressed. mild
skepticism, .Acevedo rurgently repeated his :request and :I- agreed.
Within-a surprisingly.short time the; Cuban;,:Victor Espinosa,,..
arrived.at my office (he ::said .he had-taken, the plane immedi;.
ately).; Espinosa gave-his-address and;.telephone number as
follows:  415 East 52nd Street, HA 1-7875.  A summary of his
statements; follows:-;:              ..                        - .- - :,

     Espinosa. bas -been ;involved in Cuban, liberation activities
for many:yearsa. He opposed-Batista and opposes::Castro   E is
not a-member ofe the Marchr13 Movement,. but-has long been very
close-to many of-its-leaders,. including Cubela'  Espinosa was
trained, by CIA,. in both. Louisiana and Guatemala, and was one
of those who was-.sent- into Cuba prior to the Bay of Pigs:> He
plans to become an-American- citizen in August of. this -year:. .
He admires.,the United. States and American. strength and :compe-
tence -in many fields.. .He asked a New York acquaintenance of`
his for the. name of -someone in the Department involved in
Latin American af airs. .. He-was told Acevedo knew such an
official.  ,Espinosa asked Acevedo (without, he claims, re-
vealing, his story), -and, the latter. called me.

     A little earlier this year Espinosa received a request
from one. of his .reliable Cuban conta.cts in-Europe, asking that
he come there quickly.  Espinosa went to 2'iami, obtained., false
Cuban papers, and went- to Paris. There, apparently.in .the . -
presence of the Cuban Ambassador -to Francehe  met one ofi the
top security men of .the Castro regime, who -had come to-.Paris
for that purpose.  During various -meetings, both. in France and


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