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[18]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
[20]SUBJECT: Possible DRE Animus Towards President Kennedy
[22]1, This memorandum makes record of a recollection
[23]which has been brought to mind in recent weeks since my return
[24]from Yugoslavia in late November 1966. ‘
[26]2. In Spring 1961, upon returning from Berlin I was
[27]assigned to JMWAVE. One of the cases on which I worked from
[28]then until shortly before my reassignment to Headquarters in
[29]late summer 1963 concerned funding of overseas elements of
[30]the DRE (Student Revolutionary Directorate) which had its main
[31]office in Miami (the case officer for this group during this
[32]period was Mr. Ross CROZIER, since resigned).
[34]3. believe that it is this group, the DRE, which has been
[35]referred to in investigations into the President's assassination .
[36]as the Cuban Student Directorate, whose New Orleans represen-
[37]tative is said to have had contacts with OSWALD.
[39]4. Thave assumed that, since the time I was transferred
[40]from Miami and scheduled for my next assignment as (COB, at
[41]jO Zagreb,] officers better and more recently informed than myself
[42]ave probably examined in detail all aspects of the DRE involve-
[43]ment with OSWALD, in order to rule out any slight possibility
[44]that compromise of the CIA sponsorship of this organization
[45]might in any way embarrass the Agency. Recent news reports of
[46]investigations centering in New Orleans on the assassination have
[47]once again brought to mind the concern ! felt in November 1963,
[48]by which time, however, I was far removed from current knowledge
[50]of the operation.
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[62]5. Ido retain a distinct recollection that the DRE leader- :
[64]ship, specifically Luis FERNANDEZ Rocha, whom I met several
[65]times, did hold sentiments of chagrin and embitterment that
[66]President Kennedy had not more forcefully pursued a "liberation"
[67]of Cuba. Whether or not this animus, which could be discerned
[68]as occasional signs of anger or of contempt or of discouragement,
[69]might have been translated into a wish for revenge, may be better
[70]known to other officers who dealt with this group after the summer
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