Post by Rob Caprio on Nov 3, 2018 8:45:00 GMT -5
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HSCA Investigator Gaeton Fonzi:
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) looked into the issue of Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) going to Mexico City, Mexico, in late September 1963. We have seen from several posts in this series (and many in my other series, “Statements That Sink The WC’s Conclusions") that LHO was not the person that showed up at the Cuban Consulate (CC) or the Russian Embassy (RE) as claimed by the CIA and Warren Commission (WC).
Inside the HSCA’s “Lopez Report” we will see more evidence of someone impersonating LHO in Mexico City, and this comes via the story of one person. This will conclude our three part look at the LHO in Mexico City issue.
The HSCA Says…Oscar Contreras.
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Oscar Contreras was a reporter for the El Mundo newspaper in Tamico, Mexico. At the time of his sighting of “LHO” he was a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he was studying law (1960-1964). While he was in college he was a member of the pro-Castro group at UNAM and this caused him to be persecuted by the police, and thus, he moved to Tampico to get away from this. His story did not come to light (somewhat) until March 16, 1967, when the American Counsel in Tampico, B.J. Ruyle, reported Contreras’ story to the American Embassy. Contreras was afraid of coming forward as he said he was afraid of losing his job if he told what he saw and heard back in 1963.
The reporter (Oscar Contreras) told Ruyle that he had only a “fleeting encounter with LHO” and his desire to travel to Cuba. Only after Contreras was assured that the information would be handled with the strictest confidence did he agree to let Ruyle wire his information to American Embassy. (Lopez Report, pp. 235-236)
We then are told about a May 11, 1967, letter from Ruyle to the American Embassy. Here is what the Lopez Report wrote regarding what it contained.
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The reporter [Contreras] alleged that he and some fellow students had met Lee Harvey Oswald as they exited the Cineclub at the Escuela de Filosofia [School of Philosophy) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico of Mexico. Oswald told the group that he had gone to the National Autonomous University of Mexico looking for pro-Castro students who might help him persuade the Cuban Embassy to grant him a visa. Oswald claimed that he was from California and was a member of a pro-Castro group in New Orleans. Oswald remained with the students the rest of the day and evening, as well as the following day. The reporter described Oswald as a strange and introverted individual who spoke very little Spanish. (Ibid., p. 236)
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This would again show the see-saw actions of “LHO” as we are told in some cases that he was “pro-Castro” and then in other cases he was “anti-Castro”. Obviously, his impersonator was trying to set him up and, in this case, to make the story of a visa to Cuba realistic they had to make him pro-Castro. Was all of this part of a plan to make LHO a patsy for the murder of Fidel Castro? Would this have been his fate if President John F. Kennedy (JFK) had not been assassinated on November 22, 1963? Unfortunately, we will never know for sure due to no one investigating this scenario.
The State Department (SD) would forward a copy of this letter to the CIA and on June 14, 1967, CIA headquarters would forward a copy of the letter to the CIA station in Mexico City. The CIA considered the Ruyle letter “the first piece of substantive info about Oswald’s sojourn in Mexico” since the assassination. (Ibid, p. 237) Well, if we consider the official claims about LHO, how did the CIA come to the conclusion this letter was about “LHO’s sojourn” to Mexico City? What evidence did they have to show us that LHO went to Mexico City? I am asking because they have never shared it with us IF they did have it. Why would the real LHO be trying to go to Cuba? If it was related to his Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) activities, wouldn’t he have had an easier time at getting a visa to Cuba? I would think so, but we didn’t see that. The reason was because this was NOT LHO as the CIA and WC kept claiming.
The CIA felt this information should no longer be hidden and the source’s name should be learned. The next thing CIA headquarters told the Mexico City station causes one to think—how did they know this?
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In addition, Headquarters asked Mexico City Station to bear in mind, while interviewing Ruyle’s source, that Lee Harvey Oswald was a homosexual. (Ibid.)
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Well, if we keep in mind that the real LHO was NOT in Mexico City, we can see that the rumors of LHO being gay could have come from one of his imposters! It would seem that the CIA’s main goal was to discredit Jim Garrison’s investigation into the assassination and that is why we see LHO being presented as pro-Castro and the CIA being correct in their assumptions of what happened.
On June 29, 1967, a member of the Mexico City CIA station traveled to Tampico to interview Contreras. Here is what the Lopez Report wrote about what was learned from this meeting.
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Contreras told the Mexico City Station official that he and four other individuals had met Oswald as he exited a roundtable discussion held at the School of Philosophy at UNAM. Contreras stated that Oswald had made inquiries on the UNAM campus about pro-Cuban groups and had been directed to his group. Contreras reported that though the group initially mistrusted Oswald fearing he was a “CIA provocation,” they allowed Oswald to remain with them that day and night and part of the following day. Contreras noted that Oswald never mentioned assassination but kept emphasizing that he had to get to Cuba. In addition, Oswald had exhibited homosexual tendencies while he was with the group. (Ibid., pp. 238-239)
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Since we know this was NOT LHO we can’t believe any of this. The CIA Headquarters would say this story needed to be “explored to the fullest” even though “he might have fabricated it.” Obviously, the option of it NOT being LHO was not considered at all. It seems as though the main interest of the CIA was in showing Garrison’s claims to be incorrect, and when the Contreras interview offered nothing of value to them they were happy to move the story to the FBI for follow-up.
What should be remembered too is that Contreras said that “LHO” approached him due to his ties to a pro-Castro group and his CONTACTS at the CC. Yes, Contreras had ties to the CC. We don’t learn that from the HSCA though, instead it came from one of their best investigators—Gaeton Fonzi. He wrote this in his book The Last Investigation.
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HSCA investigators were never able to pin down Contreras. And Blakey, in his presentation to the Committee, made it appear that Contreras was deliberately avoiding them. Yet [Anthony] Summers found him quite easily in Tampico, where he is the editor of a local newspaper, El Mundo.
He belonged to an pro-Castro group and had contacts at the Cuban Embassy. One evening in the last week of September, Contreras and three friends from his political group emerged from a discussion meeting and stopped by the school cafeteria. An American at a nearby table struck up a conversation, introducing himself Lee Harvey Oswald. Contreras and his friends thought this was funny because "Harvey" and "Oswald" were rabbits in a Mexican cartoon at that time. Soon their newfound American friend was telling them of his problems to get to Cuba. He asked if they could help him through their contacts in the Cuban Consulate.
Later that evening, Contreras did call Ascue, whom he knew, as well as another friend who was a Cuban intelligence officer at the Embassy. Both advised him to stay away from the American. They told him they had become suspicious of the man and said he might be a provocateur attempting to penetrate left wing groups. The next day, Contreras and his friends told Oswald that the Cubans did not trust him and that he probably would not be given a visa. Oswald, nevertheless, kept trying to ingratiate himself with them and, in fact, joined them in an all-night bull session. He left the next morning and that, said Contreras, was the last he saw of Oswald. (Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, pp. 289-290)
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A person who had no trouble finding Oscar Contreras was researcher Anthony Summers who was busy writing his book Conspiracy. Contreras would tell Summers that “LHO” was a blond American. Here is what Fonzi wrote about his description to Summers.
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Contreras told Summers he had no doubts that the man was really Oswald. He, too, said the man he met was over thirty, light-haired and fairly short. Contreras, not very tall himself, remembers looking down on "Oswald the Rabbit." (Ibid., p. 290)
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The real LHO was dark-haired, 23 about to be 24, and was either anywhere between 5'9" to 5'11" (I have seen all three listed for him in official documents), so clearly this is not the LHO we all know about. Keep in mind, Contreras spent a whole day and night with him too, so surely he got a good look at the man and his description MATCHES Duran's and Azcue's descriptions as well, and none of these match LHO’s physical characteristics.
Fonzi also brought up some good questions that need repeating. How would LHO know Contreras had contacts at the CC if he was a loner like the WC said and NOT receiving any guidance as claimed? Even if he had found out that Contreras was a member of the pro-Catro group in some way, why would he think he could help him in securing a Cuban visa?
I posit it is a fact that it was clear to the CIA, and subsequently the FBI, that this was clearly NOT LHO that neither of them pursued this with any real intentions. The HSCA would write this in their report about this issue.
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The other Oswald association in Mexico City that might have proven significant, had it been pursued, was the one alleged by Oscar Contreras, a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The committee made an effort to investigate this allegation. Silvia Duran, for example, admitted to the committee that she had advised Oswald he might obtain a Cuban visa if he could get a letter of recommendation from a Mexican in good standing with the Cuban revolutionary hierarchy. The committee also learned that the chairman of the philosophy department at the National Autonomous University, Ricardo Guerra, held seminars from time to time at the Duran home on Kant, Hegel, and Marx. The committee speculated that these circumstances might explain why Oswald contacted Contreras, who reported to Mexican authorities that Oswald approached him in September 1963 following a roundtable discussion at the school of philosophy. 17
The committee's attempts to contact Contreras were frustrated. On two occasions, the Mexican Government said he would be available for an interview, but neither materialized. The committee also was unable to contract Guerra. who in 1978 was Mexico's Ambassador to East Germany. The significance of the Contreras allegation, therefore, remains largely indeterminate.
17-The Contreras story, as in the case of the Elena Garro allegation, was not adequately pursued when it first came to the attention of the CIA in 1967. At that time, the Agency was informed by the U.S. Counsul in Tampico, Mexico, that Contreras had passed the information to him. An Agency employee later discussed the matter in more detail with the Counsel and then met with Contreras himself. The CIA confirmed that Contreras had been a student in 1963 and was politically as strong supporter of Fidel Castro. The Contreras story was considered, according to Agency files, to be the first significant development in the investigation of the Kennedy assassination after 1965. Nevertheless, no attempt was made to determine who Contreras’ associates were or how Oswald might have contacted him. Instead, the case was simply reported to the FBI. According to FBI files, no followup investigation was conducted. (HSCA Report, pp. 124-125)
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This sums it all up for us. If this was really LHO, do you think both the CIA and FBI would have done nothing with this? They would have been falling over each other to show us that this was LHO and he was in Mexico City as the WC claimed in all likelihood, but we saw NO interest in this, thus, it has to be because they knew it was NOT LHO. They also probably knew that there was no real, tangible reason for why LHO would know about Contreras at all. Sure, Duran told the man that he should get a letter of recommendation from a “Mexican in good standing”, but this does NOT show she pointed him to Contreras nor does it explain why she would do this. Remember, Contreras was NOT in good standing as his affiliation with the pro-Castro group had caused him to be harassed by the Mexican police so he was not a good candidate to help LHO with a letter of recommendation that would be taken seriously. You can see anyway you look at this there was nothing that could help the CIA, FBI or the memory of the WC, thus, this was just dropped. Who were the associates of Contreras? We don’t even know that much about this story.
Finally, despite comments about LHO and Ruby being a “couple” by people like Rose Cheramie and Sam Giancana there was no real evidence that showed us LHO was a homosexual, thus, we have to assume these notions may have come from them seeing this imposter themselves since he did show homosexual tendencies according to Contreras. Who was this man? We will never know it seems at this point in time, but it shows there were plans for LHO in early September that may or may not have included the role of patsy for the JFK murder. What do you think of the story of Oscar Contreras?
What do you think of the fact that a Mexican cartoon had a “Harvey” and an “Oswald” rabbit in it? All someone had to do was switch the “Oswald” rabbit for a “Lee” rabbit and John Armstrong’s theory would have been correct. Just a thought.
If Contreras and his friends talked with “LHO” for a full day and night, why was there so little learned by the CIA regarding this? All we know is he contacted them for help with his visa application to Cuba. How do you talk about that topic for 24 hours? Obviously, they had to talk about other things, right? Also, it is quite interesting that Contreras knew a Cuban intelligence officer too. Was he perhaps a Cuban intelligence asset himself? Notice how both this Cuban intelligence officer and CC head man Eusebio Azcue both warned him to stay away from the American as they suspected him of working for a group like the CIA. Perhaps this too is a reason the CIA dropped this as if they could show it was really LHO that met with Contreras then that would have tied LHO to the CIA in some way and we can all imagine that the CIA would NOT want that.
Like the Elena Garro de Paz story this should have been investigated, but never was. This shows us the CIA and FBI were afraid of opening more doors that lead to conspiracy as there is simply no other reason for them to ignore these leads like they did. The CIA called this the best lead they had gotten since the assassination and still after a little questioning they dropped it.
Clearly the man who met with Contreras, went to the twist party at Ruben Duran’s house and then went to the CC and RE was NOT LHO. So, who was it then? And what reason did he have to impersonate LHO and make it look like he was trying to go to Cuba?
The answers to these questions would make it a good bit clearer in this matter. What do you think?
HSCA Investigator Gaeton Fonzi:
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) looked into the issue of Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) going to Mexico City, Mexico, in late September 1963. We have seen from several posts in this series (and many in my other series, “Statements That Sink The WC’s Conclusions") that LHO was not the person that showed up at the Cuban Consulate (CC) or the Russian Embassy (RE) as claimed by the CIA and Warren Commission (WC).
Inside the HSCA’s “Lopez Report” we will see more evidence of someone impersonating LHO in Mexico City, and this comes via the story of one person. This will conclude our three part look at the LHO in Mexico City issue.
The HSCA Says…Oscar Contreras.
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Oscar Contreras was a reporter for the El Mundo newspaper in Tamico, Mexico. At the time of his sighting of “LHO” he was a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he was studying law (1960-1964). While he was in college he was a member of the pro-Castro group at UNAM and this caused him to be persecuted by the police, and thus, he moved to Tampico to get away from this. His story did not come to light (somewhat) until March 16, 1967, when the American Counsel in Tampico, B.J. Ruyle, reported Contreras’ story to the American Embassy. Contreras was afraid of coming forward as he said he was afraid of losing his job if he told what he saw and heard back in 1963.
The reporter (Oscar Contreras) told Ruyle that he had only a “fleeting encounter with LHO” and his desire to travel to Cuba. Only after Contreras was assured that the information would be handled with the strictest confidence did he agree to let Ruyle wire his information to American Embassy. (Lopez Report, pp. 235-236)
We then are told about a May 11, 1967, letter from Ruyle to the American Embassy. Here is what the Lopez Report wrote regarding what it contained.
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The reporter [Contreras] alleged that he and some fellow students had met Lee Harvey Oswald as they exited the Cineclub at the Escuela de Filosofia [School of Philosophy) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico of Mexico. Oswald told the group that he had gone to the National Autonomous University of Mexico looking for pro-Castro students who might help him persuade the Cuban Embassy to grant him a visa. Oswald claimed that he was from California and was a member of a pro-Castro group in New Orleans. Oswald remained with the students the rest of the day and evening, as well as the following day. The reporter described Oswald as a strange and introverted individual who spoke very little Spanish. (Ibid., p. 236)
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This would again show the see-saw actions of “LHO” as we are told in some cases that he was “pro-Castro” and then in other cases he was “anti-Castro”. Obviously, his impersonator was trying to set him up and, in this case, to make the story of a visa to Cuba realistic they had to make him pro-Castro. Was all of this part of a plan to make LHO a patsy for the murder of Fidel Castro? Would this have been his fate if President John F. Kennedy (JFK) had not been assassinated on November 22, 1963? Unfortunately, we will never know for sure due to no one investigating this scenario.
The State Department (SD) would forward a copy of this letter to the CIA and on June 14, 1967, CIA headquarters would forward a copy of the letter to the CIA station in Mexico City. The CIA considered the Ruyle letter “the first piece of substantive info about Oswald’s sojourn in Mexico” since the assassination. (Ibid, p. 237) Well, if we consider the official claims about LHO, how did the CIA come to the conclusion this letter was about “LHO’s sojourn” to Mexico City? What evidence did they have to show us that LHO went to Mexico City? I am asking because they have never shared it with us IF they did have it. Why would the real LHO be trying to go to Cuba? If it was related to his Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) activities, wouldn’t he have had an easier time at getting a visa to Cuba? I would think so, but we didn’t see that. The reason was because this was NOT LHO as the CIA and WC kept claiming.
The CIA felt this information should no longer be hidden and the source’s name should be learned. The next thing CIA headquarters told the Mexico City station causes one to think—how did they know this?
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In addition, Headquarters asked Mexico City Station to bear in mind, while interviewing Ruyle’s source, that Lee Harvey Oswald was a homosexual. (Ibid.)
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Well, if we keep in mind that the real LHO was NOT in Mexico City, we can see that the rumors of LHO being gay could have come from one of his imposters! It would seem that the CIA’s main goal was to discredit Jim Garrison’s investigation into the assassination and that is why we see LHO being presented as pro-Castro and the CIA being correct in their assumptions of what happened.
On June 29, 1967, a member of the Mexico City CIA station traveled to Tampico to interview Contreras. Here is what the Lopez Report wrote about what was learned from this meeting.
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Contreras told the Mexico City Station official that he and four other individuals had met Oswald as he exited a roundtable discussion held at the School of Philosophy at UNAM. Contreras stated that Oswald had made inquiries on the UNAM campus about pro-Cuban groups and had been directed to his group. Contreras reported that though the group initially mistrusted Oswald fearing he was a “CIA provocation,” they allowed Oswald to remain with them that day and night and part of the following day. Contreras noted that Oswald never mentioned assassination but kept emphasizing that he had to get to Cuba. In addition, Oswald had exhibited homosexual tendencies while he was with the group. (Ibid., pp. 238-239)
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Since we know this was NOT LHO we can’t believe any of this. The CIA Headquarters would say this story needed to be “explored to the fullest” even though “he might have fabricated it.” Obviously, the option of it NOT being LHO was not considered at all. It seems as though the main interest of the CIA was in showing Garrison’s claims to be incorrect, and when the Contreras interview offered nothing of value to them they were happy to move the story to the FBI for follow-up.
What should be remembered too is that Contreras said that “LHO” approached him due to his ties to a pro-Castro group and his CONTACTS at the CC. Yes, Contreras had ties to the CC. We don’t learn that from the HSCA though, instead it came from one of their best investigators—Gaeton Fonzi. He wrote this in his book The Last Investigation.
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HSCA investigators were never able to pin down Contreras. And Blakey, in his presentation to the Committee, made it appear that Contreras was deliberately avoiding them. Yet [Anthony] Summers found him quite easily in Tampico, where he is the editor of a local newspaper, El Mundo.
He belonged to an pro-Castro group and had contacts at the Cuban Embassy. One evening in the last week of September, Contreras and three friends from his political group emerged from a discussion meeting and stopped by the school cafeteria. An American at a nearby table struck up a conversation, introducing himself Lee Harvey Oswald. Contreras and his friends thought this was funny because "Harvey" and "Oswald" were rabbits in a Mexican cartoon at that time. Soon their newfound American friend was telling them of his problems to get to Cuba. He asked if they could help him through their contacts in the Cuban Consulate.
Later that evening, Contreras did call Ascue, whom he knew, as well as another friend who was a Cuban intelligence officer at the Embassy. Both advised him to stay away from the American. They told him they had become suspicious of the man and said he might be a provocateur attempting to penetrate left wing groups. The next day, Contreras and his friends told Oswald that the Cubans did not trust him and that he probably would not be given a visa. Oswald, nevertheless, kept trying to ingratiate himself with them and, in fact, joined them in an all-night bull session. He left the next morning and that, said Contreras, was the last he saw of Oswald. (Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation, pp. 289-290)
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A person who had no trouble finding Oscar Contreras was researcher Anthony Summers who was busy writing his book Conspiracy. Contreras would tell Summers that “LHO” was a blond American. Here is what Fonzi wrote about his description to Summers.
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Contreras told Summers he had no doubts that the man was really Oswald. He, too, said the man he met was over thirty, light-haired and fairly short. Contreras, not very tall himself, remembers looking down on "Oswald the Rabbit." (Ibid., p. 290)
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The real LHO was dark-haired, 23 about to be 24, and was either anywhere between 5'9" to 5'11" (I have seen all three listed for him in official documents), so clearly this is not the LHO we all know about. Keep in mind, Contreras spent a whole day and night with him too, so surely he got a good look at the man and his description MATCHES Duran's and Azcue's descriptions as well, and none of these match LHO’s physical characteristics.
Fonzi also brought up some good questions that need repeating. How would LHO know Contreras had contacts at the CC if he was a loner like the WC said and NOT receiving any guidance as claimed? Even if he had found out that Contreras was a member of the pro-Catro group in some way, why would he think he could help him in securing a Cuban visa?
I posit it is a fact that it was clear to the CIA, and subsequently the FBI, that this was clearly NOT LHO that neither of them pursued this with any real intentions. The HSCA would write this in their report about this issue.
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The other Oswald association in Mexico City that might have proven significant, had it been pursued, was the one alleged by Oscar Contreras, a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The committee made an effort to investigate this allegation. Silvia Duran, for example, admitted to the committee that she had advised Oswald he might obtain a Cuban visa if he could get a letter of recommendation from a Mexican in good standing with the Cuban revolutionary hierarchy. The committee also learned that the chairman of the philosophy department at the National Autonomous University, Ricardo Guerra, held seminars from time to time at the Duran home on Kant, Hegel, and Marx. The committee speculated that these circumstances might explain why Oswald contacted Contreras, who reported to Mexican authorities that Oswald approached him in September 1963 following a roundtable discussion at the school of philosophy. 17
The committee's attempts to contact Contreras were frustrated. On two occasions, the Mexican Government said he would be available for an interview, but neither materialized. The committee also was unable to contract Guerra. who in 1978 was Mexico's Ambassador to East Germany. The significance of the Contreras allegation, therefore, remains largely indeterminate.
17-The Contreras story, as in the case of the Elena Garro allegation, was not adequately pursued when it first came to the attention of the CIA in 1967. At that time, the Agency was informed by the U.S. Counsul in Tampico, Mexico, that Contreras had passed the information to him. An Agency employee later discussed the matter in more detail with the Counsel and then met with Contreras himself. The CIA confirmed that Contreras had been a student in 1963 and was politically as strong supporter of Fidel Castro. The Contreras story was considered, according to Agency files, to be the first significant development in the investigation of the Kennedy assassination after 1965. Nevertheless, no attempt was made to determine who Contreras’ associates were or how Oswald might have contacted him. Instead, the case was simply reported to the FBI. According to FBI files, no followup investigation was conducted. (HSCA Report, pp. 124-125)
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This sums it all up for us. If this was really LHO, do you think both the CIA and FBI would have done nothing with this? They would have been falling over each other to show us that this was LHO and he was in Mexico City as the WC claimed in all likelihood, but we saw NO interest in this, thus, it has to be because they knew it was NOT LHO. They also probably knew that there was no real, tangible reason for why LHO would know about Contreras at all. Sure, Duran told the man that he should get a letter of recommendation from a “Mexican in good standing”, but this does NOT show she pointed him to Contreras nor does it explain why she would do this. Remember, Contreras was NOT in good standing as his affiliation with the pro-Castro group had caused him to be harassed by the Mexican police so he was not a good candidate to help LHO with a letter of recommendation that would be taken seriously. You can see anyway you look at this there was nothing that could help the CIA, FBI or the memory of the WC, thus, this was just dropped. Who were the associates of Contreras? We don’t even know that much about this story.
Finally, despite comments about LHO and Ruby being a “couple” by people like Rose Cheramie and Sam Giancana there was no real evidence that showed us LHO was a homosexual, thus, we have to assume these notions may have come from them seeing this imposter themselves since he did show homosexual tendencies according to Contreras. Who was this man? We will never know it seems at this point in time, but it shows there were plans for LHO in early September that may or may not have included the role of patsy for the JFK murder. What do you think of the story of Oscar Contreras?
What do you think of the fact that a Mexican cartoon had a “Harvey” and an “Oswald” rabbit in it? All someone had to do was switch the “Oswald” rabbit for a “Lee” rabbit and John Armstrong’s theory would have been correct. Just a thought.
If Contreras and his friends talked with “LHO” for a full day and night, why was there so little learned by the CIA regarding this? All we know is he contacted them for help with his visa application to Cuba. How do you talk about that topic for 24 hours? Obviously, they had to talk about other things, right? Also, it is quite interesting that Contreras knew a Cuban intelligence officer too. Was he perhaps a Cuban intelligence asset himself? Notice how both this Cuban intelligence officer and CC head man Eusebio Azcue both warned him to stay away from the American as they suspected him of working for a group like the CIA. Perhaps this too is a reason the CIA dropped this as if they could show it was really LHO that met with Contreras then that would have tied LHO to the CIA in some way and we can all imagine that the CIA would NOT want that.
Like the Elena Garro de Paz story this should have been investigated, but never was. This shows us the CIA and FBI were afraid of opening more doors that lead to conspiracy as there is simply no other reason for them to ignore these leads like they did. The CIA called this the best lead they had gotten since the assassination and still after a little questioning they dropped it.
Clearly the man who met with Contreras, went to the twist party at Ruben Duran’s house and then went to the CC and RE was NOT LHO. So, who was it then? And what reason did he have to impersonate LHO and make it look like he was trying to go to Cuba?
The answers to these questions would make it a good bit clearer in this matter. What do you think?