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[6]AGENCY:
[8]RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10239-1017]
[10]AGENCY INFORMATION
[12]FBI
[14]RECORD SERIES: MX.
[15]AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-3702-464
[17]ORIGINATOR:
[18]FROM:
[19]TO:
[20]TITLE:
[22]DATE:
[23]PAGES:
[24]SUBJECT:
[26]DOCUMENT TYPE:
[28]ORIGINAL
[29]CLASSIFICATION:
[32]‘ STATUS
[34]COMMENTS:
[36]DOCUMENT INFORMATION
[38]FBI
[39]TRENT, ROLAND E.
[40]LEG, MX
[42]03/13/1964
[44]4 .
[45]LHO, POST-RP, ASSOC, BKG, LIAISON WITH MX AUTHORITIES
[47]PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[48]NEW
[50]Secret —— .
[52]CLASSIFICATION:
[53]12/17/1998 UPDATE DATE: — 02/14/2001
[54]Redact
[56]RESTRICTIONS:
[57]JFK Act 6 (1)(B)
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[62]a
[64]ION ‘ we-108-08 aN . |
[66]ae , ref NGA'GEN, REG. NO. 27 C . |
[67]oe ‘UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT : .
[68]. — |
[69]Memorandum |
[71], SECRET, |
[73]TO > Legat, Mexico (105=3702)
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[78]C7? Oh
[79]laasified fasbefoe
[81]. SUBJECT? LER HARVEY, OSWALD | i Se, Sony op
[84]~ Ret Pirecarion os ef PEDRO GUTTRRREZ a ne
[86]on B3e13S 6h.s: MARGARITA: MINGUIA, "Vasa Section, Ve Se, ‘Hmbaasy,-
[87]“exico,sDeFsy made ‘available. wisa- Pile data concerning ERNESTO.
[89]MITRANT LEVY, holder of*Cuban passport Noe 26367, issued in n Decembers
[90]1959, with: éxpiration date in 1961. Qf
[92]‘FROM = % SA Roland z. Trent
[94]roo:
[96]‘Addresses for’ this individual. were’ given as igual Aleman
[97]#259, Apartment #301, MEXXEK Colonia Roma; Mexi egy « DeFos . and |”
[98]Callé Arellano Esqhina "ce", #269, Havana, Cuba s ye _
[100]_MITRANIts date of birth is shown as. December * %,- 1936, at otal
[101]3 Havana, Cuba, and he. is further described as ‘fair. complexion, ~~ ae
[102]r St o7its: 176 Tbs.3 Cuban national, no scars of marks, ‘bréwn- hate”
[103]ad and greén eyes, The visa file: data” eso shots ‘MITRANT. fo. be.
[105]of Turkish. extraction. fh .
[107]MITRANI secured a one éntry Be2 visa on 4027262 | valid: ‘heough
[109]Ne27=61, for the, alleged purpose of a pleasure trip: to! hos Angeles,
[110]California.
[112]The visa fiYe card contains a photograph of ERNESTO MUTRANT
[113]and this card indicated his et erenen as of \January, ‘1961, ag
[114]a merchant and manufacturer of plastics vy
[116]The application made by MITRANI as the U.Se Tmbas sy ,"- Mexico, D.F
[117]in Janusry, tga was for a non=inmigrant visa to visit the US.
[119]RET
[121]in Is UNCLASSIFIED .
[123]ae WHERE SHOWN,
[125]TON ANO/OR,
[127]LEASE oF CIA INFORMATION
[128]E euneenet AS SARITIZED ~JOe) Gg pes SECRET.
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[140]The foliowing information is classified" SECRET and not
[141]to be fugiher disseminated yithouk specific authority of
[142]the CIA,J Mexico City Station} K - .
[144]As of 7-6=61 oné Ey, MITRANT was working in the Cuban
[145]Consulate, Mexico, D.l.;fand had reportedly offered to cooperate
[146]with anti-Castro persons in Mexico, D.F 2)
[148]The E, MITRANI, mentioned above was subsequently identified
[149]as ERNESTO MITRANT ($Y) _— ;
[151]ERNESTO MITRANI aka E, Mitrani, mentioned above, was subsequently
[153]identified as ERNESTO MITRANT LEVY, who in about December, 1959
[155]Was employed an "Auxiliary Consular Clerk" in the Cuban Embassy,
[156]Mexico, Dele [Paso MITRANI LEVY had reportedly been. helpful
[157]to anti-CASTRO forces in Mexico. Jose AN Temlo- PerTuon ZO _
[159]. , On October 2),,°1960, MITRANI received a telegram recalling
[161]him to Havana, Cubag however, he did nbb want to return to Cuba,
[163]and reportedly, went to the then Ambassador PORTUYONBO, and
[165]explained that he planned on marrying a Mexican girl; that
[167]his father had offerred him employment in Mexico, and for these
[169]reasons he did. not want to return to Cubae PORTUVONDO reportedly
[171]gounseled AREXEH MITRANI to write to the Cuban Foreign Cffice in ;
[172]avana and explain his problem, which km MITRANI reportedly did.
[174]At that time MITRANT was the holder of Cuban Diplomatic passport
[176]Noe 480 and also held a regular passport. - be)
[178]MITRANT, reportedly had arrived in Mexico on December 15, 1959;
[179]he was a bagchelor at the time of his arrival, and his father - ~
[180]was reportedly engaged in business in Mexico. His residence
[181]in about 1960 was given as residing at the corner of Avenida
[182]“nsurgentes Sur and Wiaducto Miguel Aleman, Mexico, D.F. ,
[183]telephone Nog-J]=-96—11, The telephone and address data was as
[185]nf 10=2)),—60 iA)
[187]: MITRANI was reportedly in contact with the USIA, U.S. Embassyy
[188]Mexico, Defey in 1960 in reward to his desire to remain in Mexico,
[189]{Gnd MITRANT was reportedly told that a visa toenter the U.S. wovld
[191]AR Le
[195]MITRANI v eportedly never publically denounced the Cuban regime
[196]although CIA file data reflects that someone wrote to the Cuban ,
[197]Embassy in 1960 stating thgt MITRANI was a "spy" and cooperating
[198]with anti-CASTRO forces )
[200]U
[202]MITRANT reportedly acting as a "cut-out" sppplied one report
[203]to the CIA, Mexico City station m which was submitted on or about
[205]Ba13-627S)
[207]The CTA,piiexico,Cit tatiod 0 no data on file concerning
[208]MITRANI since 8=13-62, (% .
[210]w
[214]mdbove CiA data secured from DAVID PHILUTPS. Wy “SECREL
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[218]be arranged for him if he would publically denounce the Cuban reein
[219]“Cp ¥y &
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[227]Pa . ne
[229]secret
[231]v ./ MC File review concerning ERNESTO MITRANI revealed the following: fe
[233]” (paris 1058908.) fentitied @ ‘COMMUNIST "PENETRATION
[235]DIPLOMATIC ESTABL HMENTS 5] FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTERS » CUBA"
[236]contains letterhead memorandum dated 10-2).—60 »fhich
[238]indicates that ERNESTO MITRANI LEVI was then a Assis tapt “
[239]Consul, Cuban Embassy, Mexico, DF ae
[241]CIA, Mexico City Station ’§ ) “i
[243]> File 10521713, Seu, 18, Pee 3, and Ser. 19,
[244]UW OF CUBAN &Q
[248]4 MC File 109=70, Ser. 850, (BUfile 109=12~210)
[249]enttiled "FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTERS »=CUBA", Report of SA JOSEPH
[250]T, GENCO, 1l-12=61 at_ Mexico, D.*, contains information from
[251]POL FELIX VALDES tM File 1361284 “Ehat (FNU) MITRANI, an
[252]assistant in the Cuban Consulate, Mexico, D.eFe, was contemplating
[253]defecting and. leaving his position. As of 1-S-61, according to the
[254]/ (8 PST, MITRAN I” was reportedly still working at the Cuban Consulate
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