124 90137 10355

124-90137-10355 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Date: 4/17/2011

Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-90137-10355 RECORD SERIES : HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR SEE TITLE

Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HQ TO : CIA TITLE: [Restricted]

DATE: 08/28/1961 PAGES: 2

SUBJECTS: CIA LIAISON MATERIAL [Restricted] DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4 CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/28/1998

OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS: MEMO

SECRET Liaison Section Mr. Donahoe Mr. Little Mr. Meier

REC9 105-24642 Date: August 28, 1961 EX:112

COPIES MADE, DATE.....BY RE FOR REVIEW AT FBIHO AND/OR DELIVERY TO HSCA RE REQUEST CATED (SEE BUFILE 62:117289/4) Director Central Intelligence Agency Attention: Deputy Director, Plans From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Subject: EDUARDO ESPINOSA Y PRIETO INTERNAL SECURITY - R - MEXICO

Reference is made to your letter dated August 21, 1961 your reference CSCI-3/766,810 Preview of this Bureau's file on subject fails to revert that he wrote bank drafts to active communist workers with the possible exception of Alicia Merino Fuentes. With regard to her, the only allegation that she was an active communist worker was made in February, 1941, by a person whose reliability was unknown to the United States Embassy in Mexico City, D. F. Our investigation failed to substantiate this allegation and you were so advised by letter under above caption dated September 24, 1989. Furthermore, at the time subject's bank draft to her was written (February 10, 1958), subject and Merino Fuentes were both connected with the Mexican(s) to the United Nations, a fact which tends to reduce the intelligence significance of this payment.

Based on information in the files of this Bureau it appears inadvisable to include in your summary to the Bundesunt fuer Verfassungsschutz (BFV), Germany, that subject wrote bank (S) drafts to active communist workers or to suggest that he "was used as a means of financing Communist Party activities"

ACM by SEE NOTE PAGE 2

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DEAN AND/OR, INFORMATION IN DOCUMENT, EXCEPT BRACKETS SECRET

Director Central Intelligence Agency

NOTE: This letter is classified "Seerat" because it contains information so classified by CIA CIA seeks to pass a summary of information concerning subject with BfV in Germany and has requested permission to include the following in this summary stating it comes from our files:

"During his New York City tenure, he was known to write bank drafts to persons known to be active Communist workers. It was suggested that he was used as a means of financing Communist Party activities. " CIA stated above conclusion "was apparently based on numerous Bureau reports written during 1957 and 1958." CIA refers specifically to only one bank draft, it having been written by subject Alicia Merino Fuentes and states that our report dated 10/12/56-contained information that she was an active communist. This report was in the case on/Merino Fuentess and the only allegation that she was an active communist was the 1941 allegation made to the Embassy in Mexico. Bureau has developed no information indicating payees of other bank drafts, written by subject had subversive associations or sympathies. 2. SECRET