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    "ocrText": "I lost their friendship because I did not\naccept to introduce Communist propaganda into my\nThey talked at length, including discussion of everyday\nMexico. To be more specific, I separated from them\nmatters, for about four hours, and they also did quite a\nand never saw them again until I found out about the\nbit of drinking. The Cuban apparently turned his car over\nto OSWALD, and the Cuban and ROJAS spent the night in a\ndeath of the President, your brother.\nhotel in Ciudad Juarez, name and location of which hotel\nForgive me for not explaining any more, but\nROJAS cannot remember. ROJAS said he did not sign a register\nit is an extremely delicate subject for you and for\nsince the Cuban was paying all the expenses.\nme. I ask you to see to it that justice is done now\nROJAS said the following morning they left Ciudad\nthat this is in your possession.\nJuarez on a flight of Aeronaves de Mexico and flew to\nMonterrey. After a short stop in Monterrey, they proceeded\nSigned YLARIO ROJAS,\ndirectly to Guadalajara, It is to be noted that Aeronaves\nManuel Acuna 1367,\nde Mexico has no such flight as that described by ROJAS,\nGuadalajara\nAfter arrival in Guadalajara the Cuban gave ROJAS 400 pesos\nUpon interview on January 10, 1964, YLARIO ROJAS\n($32 U.S.) and told him he would receive further instructions\nat a later date.\nVILLANUEVA, 1367 Manuel Acuna Street, Guadalajara, Jalisco,\n.\nMexico, furnished the following information\nIn about the latter part of December, 1962, the\nIn either June or July, 1962, ROJAS was in Mexico\nCuban came to Guadalajara and gave ROJAS 900 pesos ($72 U.S.)\nand told him to proceed to Cozumel by bus within about five\nCity on a visit and was sitting in a park in the Tlalpan\ndays. ROJAS went to Cozumel as instructed arriving there\narea when he was approached by a Cuban who talked to him\nabout smuggling Cuban propaganda into Mexico. The Cuban\njust after Christmas. 1962. There he was met by two Cuban\nmen and a Cuban woman whose first name was CRISTINA. ROJAS\nsaid he would see him later in Guadalajara.\nexplained that, al though he cannot recall the names of the\nAround the middle of August, 1962, the Cuban arrived\nCubans, he has them written down in a notebook which he\nin Guadalajara in an automobile, a description of which ROJAS\nleft with DANIEL SOLIS, a municipal policeman in Cozumel.\nwas unable to furnish, and drove ROJAS in the utomobile to\nROJAS stated SOLIS would not deliver the book to anyone but\nhim.\nCiudad Juarez, Chihuahua, across from El Paso. They drove\nat night and arrived at Ciudad Juarez in the forenoon. ROJAS\nwent to a movie in a theater, the name of which he cannot\nAbout December 28, 1962, OSWALD arrived in Cozumel\nrecall, in Ciudad Juarez and apparently the Cuban went over\nhaving proceeded there from Jamaiça via Compania Mexicana de\nAviacion (CMA). OSWALD, the three Cubans, and ROJAS again\ninto El Paso.\ndiscussed the introduction of Cuban propaganda into Mexico,\nWhen the movio was over, ROJAS was picked up in\ntakingFit off boats on the high seas, then to Cozumel and\nfrom there by boat to the mainland of Yucatan where it would\nfront of the theater by the Cuban, who at that time introduced\nbe taken inland by either bus or truck, During the time of\nhim to an individual. ROJAS has no independent memory of this\nindividual's name, but recognizes him by photograph as LEE\nthese discussions OSWALD and the three Cubans stayed at the\nHARVEY OSWALD. The three went to a bar where they discussed\nHotel Playa in Cozumel and ROJAS stayed with DANIEL SOLIS.\nthe introduction of CASTRO propaganda into Mexico via Cozumel,\nOSWALD remained in Cozumel for two or three days\nan island located off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula.\nand then returned to Jamaica by air. The three Cubans and\nROJAS continued to reside in Cozumel until about February 15,\n-2-\n-3-\nCOMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2949-Continued\nCOMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2949-Continued\n2\nit\n1963, when OSWALD again came to Cozumel from Jamaica. On\nCRISTINA was described as a female Cuban. about 29\nthis occasion OSWALD stayed three days in Cozumel: The'day\nyears or age five feet three tó four inches in height,\nafter his arrival an American by the name of ALBERT arrived\nmedium build, medium complexion, black-hair. brown eves.\nfrom Tamaica All conversi ions between this American"
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