COMMISSION BY SILVIA ODIO, A CUBAN REFUGEE RESIDING DALLAS, TEXAS. WHO CLAIMS THAT PERSON BELIEVED BY HER TO HAVE BEEN LEE HARVEY OSWALD

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1 . FRI DALLAS 6..3, PM CST URGENT LJH to. If I iltwm Fri!? w fin' '[..:11C1 ;OHS 1.110N SEP C)4/ 1 't 1 Tfoltscio I M hr _ ('-i' _ e 'hind 1) -1. e rya ril zem TO /DIRECTOR t LOS ANGELES 10515,823 FROM DALLAS I00-.! P. MIAMI Ta Trot62, -1 Tee. Rana_ Mica 111:1.1Bes Mk Garteti LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AKA. IS - R CUBA. FOLLOWING MATTER CONCERNS INFORMATION FURNISHED TO PRESIDENTS COMMISSION BY SILVIA ODIO, A CUBAN REFUGEE RESIDING DALLAS, TEXAS. WHO CLAIMS THAT PERSON BELIEVED BY HER TO HAVE BEEN LEE HARVEY OSWALD AND TWO INDIVTDUALS USING ANTI-CASTRO CUBAN WAR NAMES OF QUOTE LEOPOLDO QUOTE AND POSSIBLY QUOTE ANGELO QUOTE, HAD APPEARED. AT HFR APARTMENT DOOR EVENING OF EITHER SEPTEMBER TWO SIX OR TWO SEVEN SIXTY THREE, STATING THEY WERE MEMBERS OF CUBAN UNDERGROUND AND SOLICITED HER LP IN TRANSLATING SPANISH NOTE TO BE USED IN ANTI-CASTRO MO IENT. 1 " SYLVI ODIO IS YOUNG CUBAN DIVORCEE DAUGHTER OF AMADOR ODIO PADRON AND SARA DEL TORO. FATHER PRESENTLY IN PRISON ISLE OF PINES, CUBA, FOR ANT I...CASTRO ACTIVITIES. REST OF FAMILY IN UNITE, STATES. Je - (T / - - // SYL VI A ODIO BORN MAY FOUR THIRTY 'SEVEN 'IN HAVANA, CUBA. WHITE. DARK....1 BROWN HAIR. AT TIME OF VISIT BY THREE INDIVIDUALS, OIDIaiRMDIrG IN APARTMENT QUOTE A QUOTE, ONE ZERO EIGHT ZERO MAGELLAN CIRCLE, DALLAS, WHICH ADDRESS IN LOCATED APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN DALLAS IMILARGE.pA,RDEN nr RENT TYPE DEVELOPMENT. END PAGE ONE Tql Jifir Ir,s?/-141,- ))1 SA Ve'' :P ;NO.; Ne" AMMIproMiliew,g00.44,01) ,0,41.01.~1,/ Try+141,,,,r.V140(rf.i."pliwpm.,,,, '..u.nr.".0* f,4-1,44p-n ) (-23

2 PAGE TWO e) ; 4 ODIO HAS MENTAL TF TMENT BACKGROUND AND COMM - SION REQUESTED EXPEDITE INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE HER REPUTATION FOR VERACITY. VIEWS OF THOsE INTERVIEWED THIS REGARD ARE AT VARIANCE. HOWEVER, SOME STATE THAT IF ODIO SAYS SHE WAS VISITED BY THREE INDIVIDUALS AS NOTED 1(144j..74:Q ABOVE, SHE PROBABLY WAS SO VISITED. 1 -, 3i,/.:_,. (4 ( i f,;' ; i ATTENTIONRE EIVING OFFICES CALLED TO THEIR FILE PERTAINING TO LORAN EUGENE. 1/ LL, AKA. IS -CUBA; RUFILE ONE WO FIVE DASH SEVEN EIGHT ZERO ONE SIX, LA FILE TWO DASH TWO TWOEIGHT AND MM FILE ONE., ZERO FIVE DASH NINE SIX EIGHT, DL FILE TWO DASH SIX EIGHT. REVIEW HALL FILE DALLAS INDICATES HE WAS IN DALLAS AS OF OCTOBER ONE SEVEN LAST ALONG WITH WILLIAM HOUSTON SEYMOUR AND BOTH ARRESTED BY DALLAS POLICE ON INVESTIGATION VIOLATION DANGEROUS DRUG LAW; BOTH RELEASED FOR NO CASE AND NOT PHOTOGRAPHED BY DPD. FILE INDICATES HALL HAS COLLECTED MONEY IN ONE NINE SIX THREE TO FINANCE CUBAN RAID; IS VIOLENTLY ANTI-COMMUNIST AND ANTI - CASTRO; MAKS PRACTICE OF APPEARING BEFORE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY MEETINGS SEEKING FUNDS. IN MID DASH SIXTY THREE HALL LEFT LOS ANGELES AREA AND BECAME ACTIVE IN QUOTE COMMITTEE TO FREE CUBA QUOTE DESCRIBED AS GROUP ATTEMPTING TO RAISE FUNDS TO CHANNEL TO ANY LEGITIMATE ORGANIZATION ATTEMPTING TO OVERTHROW CASTRO MM INFORMANT ADVISED THAT HALL AND `WILLIAM HOUST9VvEYMOUR VISITED DALLAS IN OCTOBER SIXTY THREE TO COLLECT MONEY DONATIONS UNDER GUISE OF REPRESENTING ANTI-CASTRO ORGANIZATION. ONE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE FRIEND OF HALL-S IS LAWRE 71 HOWARD,' 1 ALSO KNOWN AS QUOTE LARRY QUOTE AND QUOTE MEXICAN QUOTE, AN INDIVIDUAL: OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN DESCENT WHO IN SUMMER OF SIXTY THREE WENT WITH HALL. TO CALIF. HOWARD LAST REPORTED TO BE IN VERA CRUZ, MEXICO. END PAGE TWO frilarlirgion ffift. 7,..zure ',. Tr- yip - '.4 V... far '...Tfr..1" ;TTIpT..,,,,,,,,,,,,T.wmormomtwormfgwoor.rpmmolw ripom.p0mnoirwmpnimw* t.

3 PAGE THREE IT IS NOTED THAT S /IA ODIO BELIEVES THE TWO A WHO ACCOMPANIED OSWALD TO HER HOME WERE NOT CUBANS, BUT POSSIBLE MEXICANS, 0010 BELIEVES THE WHITE MAN WAS INTRODUCED TO HER AS QUOTE LEON QUOTE AND LAST NAME THAT SOUNDED LIKE OSWALD. POSSIBILITY EXISTS LAST NAME COULD HAVE BEEN QUOTE HALL QUOTE. ALSO ODIO NOTED THAT THE WHITE MAN SPOKE ONLY A FEW SENTENCES AND WORDS IN SPANISH. DALLAS HAS NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF HALL, SEYMOUR OR HOWARD TO DISPLAY TO ODIO. EXPEDITE INVESTIGATION BEING REQUESTED LOS ANGELES TO LOCATE AND!INTERVIEW LORAN HALL WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS BELIEVED POST OFFICE BOX EIGHT FOUR, KERNVILLE, CALIF., OR POSSIBLY RAINBOW MOTEL, SAME CITY. ASCERTAIN FROM HALL WHEREABOUTS PERIOD SEPT. TWO SIX DASH SEVEN, SIXTyTHREE! WHETHER HE MADE SUCH A DESCRIBED VISIT TO APARTMENT OF ODIO; IF SO, OBTAIN IDENTITIES OF HIS FRIENDS WHO ACCOMP- ANIED HIM. OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPHS OF HALL FOR DISPLAY TO ODIO AS HE FITS DESCRIPTION OF PERSON SHE BELIEVES WAS OSWALD WHO VISITED HER APART- MENT. MIAMI REVIEW FILES FOR ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF HALL, SEYMOUR OR HOWARD, AND IF AVAILABLE, EXPEDIOUSLY FURNISH SAME TO DALLAS FOR DISPLAY TO ONO. EXPEDITE INVESTIGATION AS PRESIDENT-S COMMISSION MOST DESIROUS OF CLARIFYING INFORMATION RE OSWALD AS FURNISHED BY ODIO AS SAME, CONFLECTS WITH OTHER INFO RE OSWALD-S WHEREABOUTS ON DATES IN QUESTION. OTHER STAS ADVISED SEP - END AND ACK. VA MSL FBI WASH DC MM JVV CPT mymiar

4 PLA NTEXT TELETYPE / 6 FL- 117 TO SACS KANSAS CITY mul.m! MN DIEGO MOM DIRECTOR FBI LEE HARVEY OSWALD, AKA, IS R CUBA, KANSAS CITY OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPH AND DESCRIPTION OF LORRAN E. HALL ARRESTED BY PD WICHITA KANSAS DECEMBER SIXTEEN NINETEEN S XXTY ONE UNDER NUMBER YOUR ZERO EIGHT THREE FIVE FOR II. DASH SHOPLIFTING. SAN DIEGO QDTAIN PHOTOGRAPHS 07 WTLLIAM HOUSTON SEYMOUR ARRESTED DECEMBER THREE NINETEEN. BY SO SAN DIEGO UNDER NUMBER ONE SEVEN NINE THREE ONE ONE FOR DRUNK AND DY PD SAN DIEGO MARCH TWENTY ONE NINETEEN FIFTY NINE UNDER NUMBER ONE SIX TWO TWO FIVE ZERO FOR BURGLARY. MIAMI OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPH OF.SEYMOUR WHO ARRESTED DY SO KEY WEST DECEMBER FOUR NINETEEN SIXTY TWO UNDER NUMBER SIX TWO ONE TWO FOR VIOLATION NEUTRALITY ACT. RECIPIENTS FURNISH PHOTOGRAPHS TO BUREAU AND DALLAS BY AIRTEL, HANDLE IMMEDIATELY, DALLAS IURNISHED COPIES AV VAIL, 2 DALLAS :pclb Ht WA! C ow Coll!molo e"" f 11,11 :f '0 Of: INOcTIWIC:1 Pot.. ouch -- s fl,.,41fpf4f!copies DE.F,TITOYED ni ma d.16 SEE NOTE FOR SAC, DALLAS, PAGE 2 SEE NOTE PAGE TWO c.\,!:(4 11.0C:c4411-0Nn) SECTlO11 / :::111:'fi S E P st 1(11111V-;4 // ',avow! rooftop!, --- J.:TY i" Ho I to*, _ ;oọ,7 MAIL f1001,1 Li TELETYPE UNIT-k-1 I v:00 ;P. roam. a...,, *p.m 7.411pfenp4, ,107014,5,1-."1,...1V.V

5 sa 41) TELKrYPE TO RACR KANSAS CITY YTAWI e viol DIEGO RE: LEE HARVEY WWALD NOTE FOR SAC. UAL A4 Reurtol 6:35 p.m Persons named herein possibly idontical with the Loran Eugono Hall and the William Houston Seymour reforrod to in rotel. Upon receipt of photographs, dinplay samo Immediately to rilvia Odio and other pertinent witnoouon. NOTW: Thin involves allegation of Silvia Odio who insists that a Leon Oowald and two mombors of anti-castroites Jure organization visited at hor apartment in Dallas on 9-26 or , It is nut possible for Oswald to have visited her on those dates as we know ho was thon en route Mexic0 City -by bus, While Odio has oufforod norvoun breakdown and is undoubtedly wrong re presence of 07,wald, it doors appoar likely that oomo individuals visited at her apartmont in late September as a younger sinter confirms this. Dalian ban. determined that Loran Hall and Soymour, known anti- Cuntroiton, were in Dallas in October, 1963, It begins to look like this Leon Onwald may Le Loran Hall. Commission has requested moot oxpodittous handling of inquiry into Odio's claims, We do not have photor,raphu of Mall and. Seymour in Duffles or in Idnntificution, howcvor, photographs are available as indicated heroin, Toiotypo necessary to expedite handling, 11110FPN PlIftrAU Of 11.4VttfICATI:i It c WI AP 11+1,:tt!WC: (2'1,'',','illIfOLA!In.; te:1 SL P r, 19G4 1 NIA. rill: '0" -...v.-4 70, " : ss,