Newly released documents

Just started downloading the latest batch of files from the AARB. Found this interesting.....in CIA efforts to recruit Azcue in mid-1963.

in part 1 - document 104-10163-10010 13/9/63 appears the following....

According to A-1 (AMSAIL-1) Azcue has been very helpful by granting passports and other favours to known anti-Castro Cubans.

Note the date that this memo was sent from Mexico to the "Director". Oswald visit to Mexico is 2 weeks later. Coincidence?

Colin Crow wrote:Just started downloading the latest batch of files from the AARB. Found this interesting.....in CIA efforts to recruit Azcue in mid-1963.

in part 1 - document 104-10163-10010 13/9/63 appears the following....

According to A-1 (AMSAIL-1) Azcue has been very helpful by granting passports and other favours to known anti-Castro Cubans.

Note the date that this memo was sent from Mexico to the "Director". Oswald visit to Mexico is 2 weeks later. Coincidence?

I skipped through that Axcue material, but missed that. What I kept coming across was a back and forth over whether or not Azcue was a communist.

greg parker wrote:

Colin Crow wrote:Just started downloading the latest batch of files from the AARB. Found this interesting.....in CIA efforts to recruit Azcue in mid-1963.

in part 1 - document 104-10163-10010 13/9/63 appears the following....

According to A-1 (AMSAIL-1) Azcue has been very helpful by granting passports and other favours to known anti-Castro Cubans.

Note the date that this memo was sent from Mexico to the "Director". Oswald visit to Mexico is 2 weeks later. Coincidence?

I skipped through that Axcue material, but missed that. What I kept coming across was a back and forth over whether or not Azcue was a communist.

I  should add also the attempt to recruit him as (preferably) an agent in place.

Still ploughing through the stuff. It appeared to me that the early docs in 63 suggested he was communist/pro-Castro but things seemed to change through the year. He made comments about not being a communist and eventually seemed disenchanted with Castro. He would not support Cuba becoming a "terrorist state". Maybe he became disenchanted following his vacation in Cuba in early '63. The wife made no bones about not wanting to return annd his son studying architecture in MC.

104-10170-10097 
 
Dated April 12 1963 from JMWAVE to Director talks of anti-USA sentiment expressed in a document by the DRE. It also mentions "penetration" of the DRE (AMSPELL) by AMHINT-8.
 
AMHINT was a branch of the DRE that conducted paramilitary and infiltration operations in Cuba. Their case officer was JMWAVE chief of operations David Morales.
 
Oswald leaves for New Orleans on April 24.
 
On August 5 1963, according to Bringuier Oswald visited him and posed as a friend of the Cuban exiles, offering to join the fight against Castro.
 

Bringuier was DRE New Orleans delegate and in charge of DRE publicity and propaganda.

Colin Crow wrote:104-10170-10097 
 
Dated April 12 1963 from JMWAVE to Director talks of anti-USA sentiment expressed in a document by the DRE. It also mentions "penetration" of the DRE (AMSPELL) by AMHINT-8.
 
AMHINT was a branch of the DRE that conducted paramilitary and infiltration operations in Cuba. Their case officer was JMWAVE chief of operations David Morales.
 
Oswald leaves for New Orleans on April 24.
 
On August 5 1963, according to Bringuier Oswald visited him and posed as a friend of the Cuban exiles, offering to join the fight against Castro.
 

Bringuier was DRE New Orleans delegate and in charge of DRE publicity and propaganda.

Colin, that's potentially the most telling document I've yet seen discussed from these releases.