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    "ocrText": "HHHH 4\nCUBA\nHHHH 3\nCUBA\n29 November 1963\n29 November 1963\nfirst time in hintory. Fenatics have used revolvers, pistols, hand\nTo fire with speed ons fires much better with that type of rifle than\ngrenades, but nover telescopic sights. And what is more, in general,\nwith a telescopic sight because one does not lose sight of the target.\nfanatics do not operate from a fifth floor window. In general,\nAnd according to the cables they were talking about a rifle with a\nfanatics confess and explain why they acted, immediately. It is\n4 by 18-pover (sight--ed.) That is & rifle that brings the target\na psychological reaction by a fanatic.\nvery close. The more powerful the sight the more sensitive it is to\nany movement and the target gets lost. There is also the circumstance--\nHere we have the strange case that the accused, the alleged assassin,\nand all this seems to indicate that the rifle may have appeared there\nfires from his place of employment. Nobody who intends to escape--\nas part of the plot, that they may have placed the rifle', which is\nthat is if he is not a fanatic--somebody who is paid, who\nnot precisely the weapon for shooting 80 meters nor for firing three\nintends to escape, is willing to perpetrate such a crime from the very\nshots.\nplace he works. A place where he would be identified within five\nminutes. A place where within five minutes he would be fiercely pursued\nA telescopic sight is a weapon used for firing 300, 400, 500, and\neverywhere. He would have sought a roof on another building. He\neven 600 meters and even more. And the comrades who came in the\nwould have rented an apartment along the route. He would have situated\nGranma--many of them--could hit a plate at 600 meters, with a rifle,\nhimcelf with his telescopic sight rifle at a distance which would have\nsitting down, and not snapping off shots. It is the rifle of a marksman\nallowed him to escape.\nfor distance firing. It is really strange that one who is going to\nmake an 80-meter shot from a window would purchase a rifle with a tele-\nIt is very strange that a person at his very place of work, where he\nscopic sight when any other type of weapon without a telescopic sight\nwould be identified in five minutes, would carry out an act of this\nwould have been much more appropriate for a shot at that distance.\ntype from such a place and at the same time attempt to escape.\nThat is one of the strange circumstances that are already beginning to\nThere is no logic in this. There is no sense in this. Such a series\nbe seen.\nof strange circumstances as these. Then to use that type of rifle\nfrom there. To try to escape knowing that he would be immediately\nAnother detail that called my attention is that the rifle was purchased\nidentified. All these are the contradictions, the illogical and\nby mail for 12.28 or something that that; that is, 12 dollars. A\ninexplicable things which both show that dither a guilty person was in-\ngood sight like that ane, alone, is worth the 12 dollars and more.\nventod, that a guilty person was fabricated, or that the\nIn what part of the world do they sell high-powered rifles with\nperpetrator of the trime--because these two things fit here--either this\ntelescopic sights through catalogues for 12.28? We bought a few\nperson is not guilty and was turned into a guilty person by the police,\nof those rifles and we know what they are worth, and we had the need\nor this person is the one who fired and then all his actions have no\nto buy many sights and we kncw what the sights cost. That was\nother logical explanation or would have no other explanation that that\nanother strange fact.\nof a person who kills, thinks he will escape, but at the same time\nwould be perfectly identified as the doer of the crime.\nBut a series of things which are really strange began to accumulate.\nIt is supposed that a man has a rifle with a telescopic sight in order\nThere would only be one meaning to this: a person who is perfectly\nto fire with safety from a distance and assure accuracy against a\nprepared to carry out the act with a promise he would escape, who was\nfixed target or against a moving target. When you fire against a\nassigned a series of previous activities and steps to compromise or\nmoving target the telascopic sight becomes a hindrance. This weapon\nnot to compromise, but to have the blame fall, insinuate the\nis used to fire accurately from a distance. In other wards the\nresponsibility, on those an whom the perpetrators were very interested\nindividual who would try to use a telescopic sight would do so\non having the blame fall.\nin an attempt to get accuracy and sefety. In this case, against a\nmoving target, 80 meters away, accuracy was not sought and the curious\nBecause since our last appearance we have obtained new data here.\nthing is that safety was.also not sought.\nA report in ho.newspaper EXCELSIOR fn Mexico-stat that this man had\na\nvisited the Cuban Embassy (corrects himself--ed.) the Cuban Consulate\nBecause it is very strange, and this is what reveals that a fanatic\nand the Soviet Union Consulate to obtain a transit visa through Cuba to\nwas not involved here, in my opinion. And in these matters one must\nthe Soviet Union. We immediately checked with our consular officials.\nalwey base oneself on opinion, on suppositions. But in the first\nplace it is undeniable that a fanatic- -probably it would be the first\ncime in history that a fanatic--probably it would be the first time in\nhistory that a fanatic has used a telescopic sight. It would be the\nCOMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2954-Continued\nCOMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2954-Continued\nHHHH 5\nCUBA\n29 November 1963\nHHHH 6\nCUEA\n29 November 1963\nThe newsmaror version ic very objective and explains how this min had\n:\nwalked away disi Leasel slaming the door, because he was not given\na\nIn the hypothesis that this man would have been the real slayer, it\nvisa. We asked for information and it was established that it was\nwould be clear that the intellectual perpetrators of the murder were\ntrue that on 27 November (as appared at our consulato in\npreparing the gambit (cuartade) carefully. They sent this man to\nMexico. (corrects himself) in Septomber. Thon, he had requested a\nrequest a visa from Cuba. Just imagine! just imagine! Mr. Kennedy\nvisa. He was told that such a visa could not be granted by a consul\nhad been shot by an individual who was known. It was known where he\nwithcut authority from the Foreign Ministry. In turn, the Foreign\nworked. He had been in the Soviet Union and the President of the\nMinistry did not issue such transit visas unless the nation of final\nUnited States turned out to have been murdered by this person just\ndestination did not in tuin issue 9 visa.\nafter he had returned from the Soviet Union by way of Cuba It\nwas\nthe\nideal gnmbit. All the ideal conditions to put in the head or North\nWhat is more we receive many requests for visos in our consultates\nAmerica public oninion (pounds the leuter: -"
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