104 10308 10165

104-10308-10165 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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SECRET 0 181969Z DIR TO WAVE CITE RIOD 2944 GRYBAI TYPIC YORITE ANSTRUT 1. ANSTRUT-1 VISITED 13 DECEMBER BY MARIO ROGERIO MESTRINHO DE MELLO OFFICIAL IN BRAZILIAN EMBASSY HAVANA NOW ON LEAVE(RIOD.)

REPORTED FOLL

BRAZILIAN END BASTIGO PINTO INTOXICATED NOTE FREQUENTLY HD FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TINE. B. WIDE RUMOR ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT FIDEL CASTRO AFTER HIS APPEARANCE ON 6 DECEMBER RESULTED KILLING MAN NEXT TO HIM. CASTRO UNINJURED. WOULD BE KILLER STILL AT LARGE. C. RECENT BRAZILIAN FOREIGN TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS RESULTING DIFFICULTIES BRAZIL CORNIES DESIRING VISIT CURA. NO DETAILS GIVEN. (ALSO KLEO) D. WIDE RUMOR CUBAN JOSE "POPE" GLANUZAKHET LEE OSWALD IN MEXICO BEFORE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.

E. (MESTRINHO) RETURNING CUBA LATE JANUARY 1964. AGREED TAKE PERSONAL ITEMS REQUESTED BY A-1'S FRIENDS. 2. (MESTRINHO) ALSO DELIVERED TO A-1 LETTER FROM MARIANNA ARGUELLES WHO WROTE:

COMOTE ELIGERO ALENJIRA, FORMED HAS NOT YET RETURNED FROMALGIERS WITH GROUP CUBANS COUTE OF TOD IN HAVANA THERE SECRET 13-00000.

FOR TRAVIING MISSION.

NOUL DIAZ ARGUFIES, WHO STILL STRONG TROITE, WILL SOON GO WITH CLASS TO KOSCOW FOR SIX MONTHS ADDITIONAL TRAINING AFTER FINISHING COURSE SUPERIOR WAR SCHOOOL CN CUBA.

WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW SHE CAN AGAIN WRITE TO "PANCHO." COMMENTS A-1 SAYS THIS INDICATION MARIANNA WANTS TO COOPOΛΑΤΗ WITH ANTI-COMMUNISTS ΑΞΛΙΝ. IN ANOTHER LETTER, AMSTRUT-2 WROTE A-1 FOLL:

SHE HAD HEARD FROM "FRIENDS" AND HAS FURNISHED REQUESTED DATA TO OBTAIN THEIR (TRAVEL) DOCUMENTATION, BUT TO DATE NO ACTYON. B. HER SITUATION VERY DIFFICULT, BUT VOICED STRONG. HOPE CUBA WOULD EVENTUALLY OVERCOME ITS CURRENT PROBLEMS. SAID A-1 WAS RIGHT ARHIT THAT WOULD HAPPEN AFTER MOTHER DIED. LETTER OTHERVISE HOLIDAY FREETING.

A-1 SAID MESTRINHO WHO HAD RIGHT LETTERS WITHOUT ENCULSEDGE FINTO, DID NOT KNOW CONTENTS, NOR BELIEVED TO HAVE KNOWN ASADOR PINTO RIGINATORS OTHER THAN MARIANNA ALEMJEIRA A-1 HAS CONFIDENCE (MESTRINHO AS BEING TRUSTED COURIER) A-1 HOWEVER ADVISED (MESTRINHO) ACTED VOUNT- ARILY UPON RESOEST FROM HER FRIENDS, SINCE A-1 HAS WRITTEN... NO LOITERS A PER KÜBARK INSTRUCTIONS. 5. SINCE A-1 INTENDED TO PURCHASE LOCALLY SHOES, SAOP, SHAMPOO, ROLL FILM, ETC.. GEQUESTED BY MARIANNA ALEMJEIRA STATION OFFERED TO SUPPLY SAME AS FAVOR A-1 6. OTHER THAN NOTED ABOVE DOES HEADQUARTERS HAVE ANY INTEREST IN GOSTKINHO AS COORIER RUN RIOD, SECRET SECRET