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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) would spend a lot of time on the alleged trip Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) supposedly took to Mexico City, Mexico, in late September 1963. They would create an entire separate report—known as the Lopez Report—for this area of the case, but unfortunately for researchers this report would be locked up and kept away from them for a very long time.
The HSCA would look at several allegations regarding this alleged trip of LHO that the Warren Commission (WC) did not bother to investigate and this post will look at one of these allegations.
The HSCA Says…Elena Garro de Paz.
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Eleana Garro de Paz was a Mexican writer who said she attended a party in the fall of 1963 at the home of Ruben Duran who was the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran who worked at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City, Mexico. Here is what the HSCA would write about this claim of Ms. Garro De Paz.
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The committee investigated other aspects of Oswald's trip to Mexico City in September 1963 to see if it could develop information that bore on the question of a Cuban conspiracy… It also investigated two plausible, though unsubstantiated, allegations of activities that had not previously been publicly revealed:
That of a Mexican author, Elena Garro de Paz, who claimed that Oswald and two companions had attended a "twist" party at the home of Ruben Duran, brother-in-law of Silvia Duran, the secretary of Cuban consul Azcue who dealt with Oswald when he applied at the Consulate for a Cuban visa.
The significance of the Elena Garro allegation, aside from its pointing to Oswald associations in Mexico City that the Warren Commission did not investigate, lay in her description of one of the companions as gaunt and blond-haired. These are characteristics that both Azcue and Silvia Duran attributed to the visitor to the Cuban Consulate who identified himself as Lee Harvey Oswald. Even though "gaunt and blond-haired" did not describe Oswald, Duran said that the American visitor was the man later arrested in the assassination of the President. Azcue, on the other hand, insisted that the visitor was not the individual whose published photograph was that of Oswald.
The committee was unable to obtain corroboration for the Elena Garro allegation, although Silvia Duran did confirm that there was a "twist" party at her brother-in-law's home in the fall of 1963 and that Elena Gerro was there. She denied, however, that Oswald was there, insisting that she never saw Oswald outside of the Cuban consulate. The committee was unable to check the story with official U.S. investigative agencies because they failed to pursue it, even though they were aware of it in 1964. 15
The committee's investigation was sufficient, however, to develop a conclusion that the Elena Garro allegation had warranted investigation when it was first received by the CIA in October 1964. Even in the late 1960's, at a time when Garro and others were available for questioning, there was still the potential for sufficient corroboration 16 to make the allegation worth pursuing. Further, while the allegation did not specifically show a Cuban conspiracy, it did indicate significant Oswald associations that were not known to the Warren Commission. (HSCA Report, pp. 123-124)
Note 15—The CIA’s investigation in Mexico City was further inhibited by the refusal of the CIA to make available its sources on the Elena Garro allegation, and, as a committee of the U.S. Congress in a foreign country, it was bound by a decision of the Mexican Government to permit its citizens to decide individually if they wished to meet with committee representatives.
The CIA, moreover, had failed to pursue the Elena Garro allegation adequately in 1964. A review of the CIA file indicated that the allegation was treated skeptically because Agency officials apparently Elena Garro to be other than totally rational. Inquiries of sources were ordered, but the files do not indicate that any responses were actively solicited or, in fact, received. The Agency files on this aspect of the case are devoid of any substance that would suggest an active CIA investigation.
The committee did ultimately locate Elean Garro in Europe but attempts by telephone to persuade her to come to the United States to testify did not succeed.
Note 16—Elena Garro maintained that after the assassination she wanted to report her story to the authorities but that she was warned of possible danger by a man named Manuel Calvillo. Elena Garro alleged that Calvillo placed her in the Hotel Vermont in Mexico City where she remained for several days. In 1967, the CIA did in fact receive confirmation of Elena Garro’s stay at the Hotel Vermont immediately after the assassination. (HSCA Report, p. 123)
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There is a lot of information in this segment of the HSCA report regarding this issue. What is clear is the CIA did nothing with this allegation as they thought Elena Garro de Paz was NOT a “rational person.” In fact, Win Scott, the head of the CIA’s station in Mexico City, said she was “nuts” after he read what she had claimed regarding LHO. But if LHO was at a party in Mexico City wouldn’t that prove he was actually in Mexico City as the CIA and WC claimed? I would think so, so why was the CIA so adverse to investigating her claim then? The sticky point might be that he was allegedly with two other men which again might point to a conspiracy as LHO was supposed to be a LONER.
During her HSCA testimony Silvia Duran (now Tirado) said she had never seen Garro at any party she gave at her house but did leave open the possibility that she may have gone to the party her brother-in-law Ruben gave.
CORNWELL - Did Elena or Elinita Garro de Paz ever come to those parties? In your home?
TIRADO - No.
CORNWELL - Or in the home of Ruben?
TIRADO - Once, but it was, I think it was before that I was in the Cuban Embassy.
HARDAWAY - It was after they returned from France that they came to one of the parties?
TIRADO - Yeah, to Ruben's house.
HARDAWAY - At Ruben's house.
TIRADO -Yeah. That was the whole family there. I only saw Elena a few times. One was the day that I got married and another time was somewhere else, I think three times I only saw her.
They did not nail down a time for this party however to know for sure if this was the party being discussed by Ms. Elena Garro. According to Ms. Cobb, via Ms. Garro, and then via Ms. Duran, Ms. Duran had supposedly spoken with three American guests who were otherwise standoffish. Supposedly, one of these guests was LHO. The FBI looked into this but they claimed they had problems corroborating some parts of the story so they lost interest in it. Again, if it could have been shown to have been the party LHO was supposedly at, do you think they would have lost interest in it? More than likely they realize this story had NO merit and that is why they lost interest in it and that means there was NO LHO sighting in Mexico City.
The HSCA would agree with this as they wrote this in their report about the LHO seen at the Cuban Consulate by Silvia Duran.
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In addition, the committee interviewed Silvia Duran, a secretary in the Cuban consulate in 1963. Although she said that it was in fact Oswald who had visited the consulate on three occasions, she described him as 5 feet 6, 125 pounds, with sparse blond hair, features that did not match those of Lee Harvey Oswald. The descriptions given by both Azcue and Duran do bear a resemblance--height aside--to an alleged Oswald associate referred to in an unconfirmed report provided by another witness, Elena Garro de Paz, former wife of the noted Mexican poet, Octavio Paz. Elena Garro described the associate, whom she claimed to have seen with Oswald at a party, as very tall and slender [with] * * * long blond hair * * * a gaunt face [and] a rather long protruding chin." 4
Note 4—Elena Garro’s allegation is discussed in more detail in section I C 2, supra. (HSCA Report, pp. 250-251)
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The description given by Ms. Duran regarding LHO being “…5 feet 6, 125 pounds, with sparse blond hair” is clearly NOT the LHO who was shot dead in Dallas. Who was this man claiming to be LHO? What purpose was he hoping to accomplish by showing up at the Cuban Consulate claiming to be LHO and trying to get a visa to Cuba? The issue of it NOT being LHO would explain why this person would say they could not apply for a new visa without providing their REAL NAME! For it was LHO why would he worry about giving his real name when he had already done so on the application at the Cuban Consulate?
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I was unable to remain in Mexico indefinitely because of my mexican (sic) visa restrictions which was for 15 days only. I could not take a chance on requesting a new visa unless I USED MY REAL NAME, so I returned to the United States. (CE 15, p. 33) (Emphasis mine)
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This clearly shows it was NOT LHO at the Cuban Consulate to me as otherwise the issue of using his “real name” would NOT have been an issue since he gave his name as LHO. Further confirmation of this truth to me comes from the total disinterest in this claim by both the CIA and FBI. IF it was really LHO, don’t you think they would have been all over this? I sure do.
The HSCA would write this about the disinterest in their “Post-Warren report CIA investigation” section of their report.
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Post-Warren report CIA investigation.-- The committee found that the CIA, as had the FBI, showed little or no inclination to develop information with respect to the President's assassination once the Warren Commission had issued its report… In the cases of two Mexican citizens who claimed to have had contacts with Oswald in Mexico City in the fall of 1963, Elena Garro de Paz and Oscar Contreras,12the CIA took only perfunctory action, consequently failing to gain insight into actions by Oswald that might have had a bearing on the assassination.
Note 12—See section I C 2. (Ibid, pp. 255-256)
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It seems if these actions had shown LHO to be in Mexico City, and with compatriots while meeting with others, the CIA would and should have been all over this claim, but their total disinterest in it shows us they knew it was NOT LHO at the Cuban Consulate. Furthermore, they for some reason had no interest in why someone would be impersonating him claiming to want a visa to Cuba. Unless of course they already knew all about this as it was simply one more part of a plan they were orchestrating. What do you think about this?
Another thing that shows us this was NOT LHO as Ms. Elena Garro claimed is the dates she would give when she was first interviewed about this on December 10, 1963. In a synopsis of this interview the dates for the party at Ruben Duran’s was given as follows.
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2. She believes that the date of the party was about September 2 or 3, 1963. It was a few days before the visit of Soviet astronaut, Gagarin. She believes it was a Monday or Tuesday because it was an odd night to have a party.
(September 2 and 3 do, in fact, fall on a Monday and Tuesday.) She cannot conveniently reconstruct the date from her calendar because it is in a desk which is now stored away with a lot of other furniture blocking it. (HSCA III, p. 299)
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Since the dates matched up with the days of the week she gave we have to consider the dates of September 2 or 3, 1963, to be accurate and this precludes it from being LHO as even the WC said he did NOT leave for Mexico City until September 26, 1963. So how could he be there on September 2 or 3? He couldn’t obviously and this is probably why the CIA and FBI, and finally the WC, showed no interest in her story as it showed that someone was impersonating LHO and that was something they did NOT want to highlight as no one impersonates a “loner.” This report would go onto to describe “LHO” and his two companions for us.
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3. At the party, the man she assumes was Oswald wore a black sweater. He tended to be silent and stared a lot at the floor. Of his two young American companions, one was very tall and slender and had long blond hair which hung across his forehead. He had a gaunt face and a rather long protruding chin. The other was also rather tall and had short, light brown hair, but he had no real distinguishing characteristics. All three were obviously American and did not dance or mix with the other people. (Ibid, p. 300)
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You’ll notice that she said the one man had gaunt face and rather long protruding chin and we have to wonder if this is the man Eusebio Azcue saw as he described the man who came to the Cuban Consulate in the following way.
Senor AZCUE. …The man who went to the consulate was a man over 30 years of age and very thin, very thin faced. And the individual I saw in the movie was a young man, considerably younger, and a fuller face…. The individual who visited the consulate is one whose physiognomy or whose face I recall very clearly. He had a hard face. He had very straight eyebrows, cold, hard, and straight eyes. His cheeks were thin. His nose was very straight and pointed.
This sounds like the one-man Ms. Garro saw at the party, but we are left to wonder who this was and why he would go to the Cuban Consulate and pretend to be LHO. IF the WC ran an honest investigation and the FBI and CIA really cared for the truth, why was this not investigated simply because it did NOT point to LHO? Clearly the failure to investigate this claim again shows us the authorities were not really interested in the truth as they had their OWN truth that was not based on the evidence.
Ms. Garro’s statements would show us that LHO was not in Mexico City when she claimed he was as the WC said he would go at a later time, but in both claims, there is no credible evidence to show he actually went. Ms. Garro’s claim at least shows who might have impersonated LHO at the Cuban Consulate as the description of the one American at the party she attended seems to be close to the man Azcue saw on three occasions at the Consulate.
The bottom line is that both the CIA and FBI ignored this lead and never saw fit to investigate it at all and that simply would not have happened had it shown LHO to be the man she really saw at the party. Thus, once again we evidence that does NOT point to LHO being in Mexico City as claimed by both the CIA and WC.
Here is a cable discussing her claim about meeting LHO in Mexico City. It was released in the 1990s with the Assassination Records Review Board.
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1545#relPageId=3
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The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) would spend a lot of time on the alleged trip Lee Harvey Oswald (LHO) supposedly took to Mexico City, Mexico, in late September 1963. They would create an entire separate report—known as the Lopez Report—for this area of the case, but unfortunately for researchers this report would be locked up and kept away from them for a very long time.
The HSCA would look at several allegations regarding this alleged trip of LHO that the Warren Commission (WC) did not bother to investigate and this post will look at one of these allegations.
The HSCA Says…Elena Garro de Paz.
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Eleana Garro de Paz was a Mexican writer who said she attended a party in the fall of 1963 at the home of Ruben Duran who was the brother-in-law of Silvia Duran who worked at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City, Mexico. Here is what the HSCA would write about this claim of Ms. Garro De Paz.
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The committee investigated other aspects of Oswald's trip to Mexico City in September 1963 to see if it could develop information that bore on the question of a Cuban conspiracy… It also investigated two plausible, though unsubstantiated, allegations of activities that had not previously been publicly revealed:
That of a Mexican author, Elena Garro de Paz, who claimed that Oswald and two companions had attended a "twist" party at the home of Ruben Duran, brother-in-law of Silvia Duran, the secretary of Cuban consul Azcue who dealt with Oswald when he applied at the Consulate for a Cuban visa.
The significance of the Elena Garro allegation, aside from its pointing to Oswald associations in Mexico City that the Warren Commission did not investigate, lay in her description of one of the companions as gaunt and blond-haired. These are characteristics that both Azcue and Silvia Duran attributed to the visitor to the Cuban Consulate who identified himself as Lee Harvey Oswald. Even though "gaunt and blond-haired" did not describe Oswald, Duran said that the American visitor was the man later arrested in the assassination of the President. Azcue, on the other hand, insisted that the visitor was not the individual whose published photograph was that of Oswald.
The committee was unable to obtain corroboration for the Elena Garro allegation, although Silvia Duran did confirm that there was a "twist" party at her brother-in-law's home in the fall of 1963 and that Elena Gerro was there. She denied, however, that Oswald was there, insisting that she never saw Oswald outside of the Cuban consulate. The committee was unable to check the story with official U.S. investigative agencies because they failed to pursue it, even though they were aware of it in 1964. 15
The committee's investigation was sufficient, however, to develop a conclusion that the Elena Garro allegation had warranted investigation when it was first received by the CIA in October 1964. Even in the late 1960's, at a time when Garro and others were available for questioning, there was still the potential for sufficient corroboration 16 to make the allegation worth pursuing. Further, while the allegation did not specifically show a Cuban conspiracy, it did indicate significant Oswald associations that were not known to the Warren Commission. (HSCA Report, pp. 123-124)
Note 15—The CIA’s investigation in Mexico City was further inhibited by the refusal of the CIA to make available its sources on the Elena Garro allegation, and, as a committee of the U.S. Congress in a foreign country, it was bound by a decision of the Mexican Government to permit its citizens to decide individually if they wished to meet with committee representatives.
The CIA, moreover, had failed to pursue the Elena Garro allegation adequately in 1964. A review of the CIA file indicated that the allegation was treated skeptically because Agency officials apparently Elena Garro to be other than totally rational. Inquiries of sources were ordered, but the files do not indicate that any responses were actively solicited or, in fact, received. The Agency files on this aspect of the case are devoid of any substance that would suggest an active CIA investigation.
The committee did ultimately locate Elean Garro in Europe but attempts by telephone to persuade her to come to the United States to testify did not succeed.
Note 16—Elena Garro maintained that after the assassination she wanted to report her story to the authorities but that she was warned of possible danger by a man named Manuel Calvillo. Elena Garro alleged that Calvillo placed her in the Hotel Vermont in Mexico City where she remained for several days. In 1967, the CIA did in fact receive confirmation of Elena Garro’s stay at the Hotel Vermont immediately after the assassination. (HSCA Report, p. 123)
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There is a lot of information in this segment of the HSCA report regarding this issue. What is clear is the CIA did nothing with this allegation as they thought Elena Garro de Paz was NOT a “rational person.” In fact, Win Scott, the head of the CIA’s station in Mexico City, said she was “nuts” after he read what she had claimed regarding LHO. But if LHO was at a party in Mexico City wouldn’t that prove he was actually in Mexico City as the CIA and WC claimed? I would think so, so why was the CIA so adverse to investigating her claim then? The sticky point might be that he was allegedly with two other men which again might point to a conspiracy as LHO was supposed to be a LONER.
During her HSCA testimony Silvia Duran (now Tirado) said she had never seen Garro at any party she gave at her house but did leave open the possibility that she may have gone to the party her brother-in-law Ruben gave.
CORNWELL - Did Elena or Elinita Garro de Paz ever come to those parties? In your home?
TIRADO - No.
CORNWELL - Or in the home of Ruben?
TIRADO - Once, but it was, I think it was before that I was in the Cuban Embassy.
HARDAWAY - It was after they returned from France that they came to one of the parties?
TIRADO - Yeah, to Ruben's house.
HARDAWAY - At Ruben's house.
TIRADO -Yeah. That was the whole family there. I only saw Elena a few times. One was the day that I got married and another time was somewhere else, I think three times I only saw her.
They did not nail down a time for this party however to know for sure if this was the party being discussed by Ms. Elena Garro. According to Ms. Cobb, via Ms. Garro, and then via Ms. Duran, Ms. Duran had supposedly spoken with three American guests who were otherwise standoffish. Supposedly, one of these guests was LHO. The FBI looked into this but they claimed they had problems corroborating some parts of the story so they lost interest in it. Again, if it could have been shown to have been the party LHO was supposedly at, do you think they would have lost interest in it? More than likely they realize this story had NO merit and that is why they lost interest in it and that means there was NO LHO sighting in Mexico City.
The HSCA would agree with this as they wrote this in their report about the LHO seen at the Cuban Consulate by Silvia Duran.
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In addition, the committee interviewed Silvia Duran, a secretary in the Cuban consulate in 1963. Although she said that it was in fact Oswald who had visited the consulate on three occasions, she described him as 5 feet 6, 125 pounds, with sparse blond hair, features that did not match those of Lee Harvey Oswald. The descriptions given by both Azcue and Duran do bear a resemblance--height aside--to an alleged Oswald associate referred to in an unconfirmed report provided by another witness, Elena Garro de Paz, former wife of the noted Mexican poet, Octavio Paz. Elena Garro described the associate, whom she claimed to have seen with Oswald at a party, as very tall and slender [with] * * * long blond hair * * * a gaunt face [and] a rather long protruding chin." 4
Note 4—Elena Garro’s allegation is discussed in more detail in section I C 2, supra. (HSCA Report, pp. 250-251)
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The description given by Ms. Duran regarding LHO being “…5 feet 6, 125 pounds, with sparse blond hair” is clearly NOT the LHO who was shot dead in Dallas. Who was this man claiming to be LHO? What purpose was he hoping to accomplish by showing up at the Cuban Consulate claiming to be LHO and trying to get a visa to Cuba? The issue of it NOT being LHO would explain why this person would say they could not apply for a new visa without providing their REAL NAME! For it was LHO why would he worry about giving his real name when he had already done so on the application at the Cuban Consulate?
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I was unable to remain in Mexico indefinitely because of my mexican (sic) visa restrictions which was for 15 days only. I could not take a chance on requesting a new visa unless I USED MY REAL NAME, so I returned to the United States. (CE 15, p. 33) (Emphasis mine)
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This clearly shows it was NOT LHO at the Cuban Consulate to me as otherwise the issue of using his “real name” would NOT have been an issue since he gave his name as LHO. Further confirmation of this truth to me comes from the total disinterest in this claim by both the CIA and FBI. IF it was really LHO, don’t you think they would have been all over this? I sure do.
The HSCA would write this about the disinterest in their “Post-Warren report CIA investigation” section of their report.
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Post-Warren report CIA investigation.-- The committee found that the CIA, as had the FBI, showed little or no inclination to develop information with respect to the President's assassination once the Warren Commission had issued its report… In the cases of two Mexican citizens who claimed to have had contacts with Oswald in Mexico City in the fall of 1963, Elena Garro de Paz and Oscar Contreras,12the CIA took only perfunctory action, consequently failing to gain insight into actions by Oswald that might have had a bearing on the assassination.
Note 12—See section I C 2. (Ibid, pp. 255-256)
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It seems if these actions had shown LHO to be in Mexico City, and with compatriots while meeting with others, the CIA would and should have been all over this claim, but their total disinterest in it shows us they knew it was NOT LHO at the Cuban Consulate. Furthermore, they for some reason had no interest in why someone would be impersonating him claiming to want a visa to Cuba. Unless of course they already knew all about this as it was simply one more part of a plan they were orchestrating. What do you think about this?
Another thing that shows us this was NOT LHO as Ms. Elena Garro claimed is the dates she would give when she was first interviewed about this on December 10, 1963. In a synopsis of this interview the dates for the party at Ruben Duran’s was given as follows.
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2. She believes that the date of the party was about September 2 or 3, 1963. It was a few days before the visit of Soviet astronaut, Gagarin. She believes it was a Monday or Tuesday because it was an odd night to have a party.
(September 2 and 3 do, in fact, fall on a Monday and Tuesday.) She cannot conveniently reconstruct the date from her calendar because it is in a desk which is now stored away with a lot of other furniture blocking it. (HSCA III, p. 299)
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Since the dates matched up with the days of the week she gave we have to consider the dates of September 2 or 3, 1963, to be accurate and this precludes it from being LHO as even the WC said he did NOT leave for Mexico City until September 26, 1963. So how could he be there on September 2 or 3? He couldn’t obviously and this is probably why the CIA and FBI, and finally the WC, showed no interest in her story as it showed that someone was impersonating LHO and that was something they did NOT want to highlight as no one impersonates a “loner.” This report would go onto to describe “LHO” and his two companions for us.
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3. At the party, the man she assumes was Oswald wore a black sweater. He tended to be silent and stared a lot at the floor. Of his two young American companions, one was very tall and slender and had long blond hair which hung across his forehead. He had a gaunt face and a rather long protruding chin. The other was also rather tall and had short, light brown hair, but he had no real distinguishing characteristics. All three were obviously American and did not dance or mix with the other people. (Ibid, p. 300)
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You’ll notice that she said the one man had gaunt face and rather long protruding chin and we have to wonder if this is the man Eusebio Azcue saw as he described the man who came to the Cuban Consulate in the following way.
Senor AZCUE. …The man who went to the consulate was a man over 30 years of age and very thin, very thin faced. And the individual I saw in the movie was a young man, considerably younger, and a fuller face…. The individual who visited the consulate is one whose physiognomy or whose face I recall very clearly. He had a hard face. He had very straight eyebrows, cold, hard, and straight eyes. His cheeks were thin. His nose was very straight and pointed.
This sounds like the one-man Ms. Garro saw at the party, but we are left to wonder who this was and why he would go to the Cuban Consulate and pretend to be LHO. IF the WC ran an honest investigation and the FBI and CIA really cared for the truth, why was this not investigated simply because it did NOT point to LHO? Clearly the failure to investigate this claim again shows us the authorities were not really interested in the truth as they had their OWN truth that was not based on the evidence.
Ms. Garro’s statements would show us that LHO was not in Mexico City when she claimed he was as the WC said he would go at a later time, but in both claims, there is no credible evidence to show he actually went. Ms. Garro’s claim at least shows who might have impersonated LHO at the Cuban Consulate as the description of the one American at the party she attended seems to be close to the man Azcue saw on three occasions at the Consulate.
The bottom line is that both the CIA and FBI ignored this lead and never saw fit to investigate it at all and that simply would not have happened had it shown LHO to be the man she really saw at the party. Thus, once again we evidence that does NOT point to LHO being in Mexico City as claimed by both the CIA and WC.
Here is a cable discussing her claim about meeting LHO in Mexico City. It was released in the 1990s with the Assassination Records Review Board.
www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=1545#relPageId=3