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    "ocrText": "January 24, 1968\nTO:\nJIM GARRISON, District Attorney\nFROM:\nMARK LANE,\nRE:\nINTERVIEW AT MEXICAN CONSULATE IN NEW ORLEANS\n*\nToday I went to the Mexican Consulate together with Gary\nSanders and we interviewed RUBEN GAXIOLA the\nConsul General\nand TERESA JARUREGUI who is employed as a clerk. According to MRS.\nFARRINGTON the \"OSWALD\" visit took place at the Mexican Consulate\nlocated in the Whitney Bank Building. During 1963 the Consulate\nwas in fact located at the Whitney Bank at St. Charles and Gravier.\nToward the middle of 1965, according to the Consul General, the\noffice was moved to the Trade Mart where it is presently located.\nThe Consul General during 1963 was REYES SPINDOLA. During 1963 in\norder to secure a tourist visa the applicant was required to submit\nproof of citizenship and pay a $3.00 charge. Proof of citizenship\nis considered to be a birth certificate, army discharge , or even\na notarized statement alleging that you are in fact a citizen. No\npicture is required.\nIn order to secure a permit to bring a rifle into the country\nfor hunting, one must pay $16.00, submit a photograph and submit a\nletter from the local police department stating that you have no\nrecord. The hunting season in Mexico is from October 15th to\nMarch 3lst. The tourist visa was valid for a period of six months.\nAccording to MISS JARUREGUI, \"OSWALD\" entered the office during\nSeptember and she is quite certain that it was before lunch. He\napproached MRS. GUADALUPE ORTEGA and stated that he wished to secure\na tourist's visa. MRS. ORTEGA asked him for proof of citizenship\nand a record of smallpox vaccination. The man offered his birth\ncertificate as proof of citizenship. This was accepted by MRS.\nORTEGA who then handed the application to MISS JARUREGUI. MISS\nJARUREGUI told the applicant to sign a form which he did and the\ntourist card was issued. MRS. ORTEGA is presently in Mexico City\nemployed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to MISS\nJARUREGUI, MRS. ORTEGA was quite sure that the man who made the\napplication was LEE HARVEY OSWALD based upon pictures that she saw\nof OSWALD after the assassination. One or two weeks after the\nassassination, FBI agents visited the Mexican Consulate. They\nrequested permission to take the original tourist application with\nthem but such permission was denied. According to those presently\nemployed at the Consulate, even the Consul General does not have\npermission to make such documents available and that an official\nruling would have been required from the Mexicari government. Per-\nsonnel at the office believe that the original application never\nleft the office, but that a copy of it was made by FBI agents. This\nis significant, of course, in that handwriting analysis of a photo-\ncopy is much less valuable than an analysis of the original document\nSome experts even claim that an analysis of a photocopy is invalid.\n-1-"
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