Carlos Bringuier testimony

Mr. BRINGUIER. You see, that is a hard question, because here in the city you have a lot of persons. There are some who are pro-Castro, there are many who are anti-Castro. Even among the Cubans you could have some Castro agents here in the city and you could not have control of everybody.
But there is something else: The owner of the Havana Bar--the Havana Bar is located in 117 Decatur Street, just two door or three door from my store--the owner of the Havana Bar is a Cuban, and he and one of the employees over there, gave the information to me after Kennedy's assassination--not before that Oswald went to the Havana Bar one time. He asked for some lemonade. He was with one Mexican at that moment, and when Oswald was drinking the lemonade, he start to say that, sure, the owner of that place had to be a Cuban capitalistic, and that he argue about the price of the lemonade. He was telling that that was too much for a lemonade, and he feel bad at that moment, Oswald feel bad at that moment--he had some vomits and he went out to the sidewalk to vomit outside on the sidewalk. These persons here from the Havana Bar told me that the guy, the Mexican, who was with Oswald, was the same one that one time the FBI told them that if they will see him, call them immediately because that was a pro-Communist. I remember that was between August 15 and August 30 was that period of time. I could not locate that because I start to find out all these things after the Kennedy assassination, not before, because before I did not found any connection. They did not told nothing of this before to me. Between the 15th and the 30th the brother of the owner of the Havana Bar came to my store asking me to call the FBI, because he already saw one automobile passing by the street with two Mexicans, one of them the one who had been with Oswald in the bar, and he told me that the FBI, one agent from the FBI, had been in the bar and told them that if they will see those two guy to call them. This person, the brother of the owner of the bar, he gave to me at that moment the number of the plate of the automobile, but he didn't get from what State. I called the FBI, because this person don"t know to speak English. That was the reason why he came to me. I talked to the person in the FBI. I explained what was going on, but looked like thi s person on the telephone didn't know nothing about that matter and he took the--I believe that he took the notes of what I was telling to him, and that was all.

AGENCY INFORMATION

             AGENCY : HSCA
      RECORD NUMBER : 180-10097-10491
     RECORDS SERIES : NUMBERED FILES
 AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 014118

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

         ORIGINATOR : HSCA
               FROM : PENA, OREST
                 TO : [No To]
              TITLE : [No Title]
               DATE : 01/20/1978
              PAGES : 10
      DOCUMENT TYPE : SUMMARY
           SUBJECTS : PENA, ORST; FBI; NEW ORLEANS; OSWALD, LEE, POST
                      RUSSIAN PERIOD, POLITICAL AND SUBVERSIVE; ACTIVITIES;
                      FERRIE, DAVID; BRINGUIER, CARLOS
     CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED
       RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED
     CURRENT STATUS : POSTPONED IN FULL
DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 08/08/1993
           COMMENTS : Tabbed 251-3. Box 251.