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    "ocrText": "sougato.\nA report in the newspager in Vexico-states that wes\nBecause it is very strange, and this is what reveals that a fanatic\nvisited the Cuban Embassy (corrects himself--ed.) the Cuban Consulate\nwas not involved here, in my opinion. And in these matters one must\nand the Soviet Union Consulate to obtain a transit visa through Cuba to\nalwoys base oneself on opinion, on suppositions. But in the first\nthe Soviet Union. We immediately checked with our consular officials.\nplace it is undeniable that a fahatic--probably it would be the first\ncime in history that a ?anatic-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 Noverbeer 1963\nHHHH 6\nCUEA\n29 November 1963\nThe newsparer version is very objective and explaing how this man had\nwalked away disi Leased, slamming the door, because he was not given a\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 heard) he appared at our consulate in\npreparing the gambit (cuartade) carefully. They sent this man to\nMexico. (corrects himself) in September. Then, he had requested a'\nvisa. He was told that such a visa could not be granted by a consul\nrequest a visa from Cuba. Just imagine! just imagine! Mr. Kennedy\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 turn issue a visa.\nafter he had returned from the Soviet Union by way of Cuba. It was the\nideal gambit. All the ideal conditions to put in the head of North\nWhat is more we receive many requests for visas in our consultates\nAmerican public opinion (pounds the lectern--ed.) the suspicion that it\nfrom many people and ingeneral our functionaries are very cautious,\nhad been a communist and an agent--how would they say it--of Cuba and\nvery conservative in this respect because we have to suppose that the\nof the Soviet Union.\nenemy is constantly trying to send agents here and this is why we\ntake many steps and we do not grant visa to anyone requesting one.\nIt is very strange that anybody who had been in the Soviet Union, who\nWe must know their antecedents perfectly. Accordingly, the funcationary\nwhen he was there the first time passed throught Cuba. If he had been\nrefused him the visa.\ngiven a passport with no trouble if he had money to go to Mexico, why\ndid he have to come to Cuba except for the only and exclusive purpose\nNON, Saturday night, the other day, scarcely 24 hours after Kennedy's\nof leaving a trial, of spinning a web? Why did he get angry when he\ndeath, agents of the Mexican federal police arrested the employee--\nwas told that it was impossible? Why did he $lam the door? Why did he\nshe has Mexican citizenship--from our consulate and also the employee's\nleave? No friend of Cuba, no communist does this when he visists our\nhusband. Why did they arrest him? What was the purpose of arresting\nconsulates. Nobody behaves in that crude manner and of course we have\nhim? (corrects himself--ed.) They arrested her? They arrested her\nno other background for the accused. We have no other antecedents than\nto question her and treated her in a brutal manner. They maltreated\nthose that are published by the press.\nher. They imputed that she had supposed relations with the suspect\nof Kennedy's assassination. They tried to get some information by\nmem s of ccercion. We did not know about this. I was unaware of this\nWe will never categorically declare that somebody is guilty of something\nif we do not have irrefutable proof of it. However, basing ourselves\nwhen I spoke. I understand it was Saturday night.\non hypothesis, if he was the true executioner of the deed, his trip to\nMexico, his alleged interview with the press where he presented himself\nThis shows how everything was shaping up. The police agents alleged\nas a defender of Cuba shortly before the events, his supposed brawl with\nthat they questioned her with an eye toward the visit which this\nalleged counterrevolutionaries in all that the perfectly planned\nMr. Oswald made to the Cuban consulate. How did they know? Who told\ngambit could be seen. Then everything is perfectly explainable. Some-\nthem? Where were they told this? Because we did not Incw about it.\nbody who was offered the chance to escape, fired, left a trial, was\nBecause it was a routine matter. No one in the Foreign Ministry, none\nidentified, and disappeared they would then say he came to Cuba, that he\nof the functionaries had even identified that indivudual who appeared as\nhad been in Cuba before the assassination because as can be seen that\nan alleged suspect as one of the hundreds of persons who appeared to\nif he was the guilty one, he did try to escape.\nrequest a visa.\nAfterwards he was arrested and he smiled before the television cameras.\nHence, the American police knew about it. Hence the Dallas police\nHe did not confess. He denied everything. He did not permit the use\nreported it. Why did they know it? Why did they report it? Why\nof a lie detector, and gentlemen the surprising, the incredible, what\nhad not this appeared in the newspapers yet? And it did appear in a\nincreases the suspicion that the entire world has, is that barely 36\nMexican newspaper two or three days latter? Here we can see clearly\nor 48 hours later in the basement of a jail surrounded by police.\nsee the warp and the woof. What purpose did this man have in\nagents, ho VCS nurdcred. He did not speak one vard more.\ngoing to the Cuban Consulate in Moxico? What pretext did he use?\nRequest a transit visa? If he wanted to travel to the Soviet Union\nhe could have gone by way of England which is closer and he had more\nfacilities, by way of France, by way of many nations in Eurogs. Why\nCOMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2954-Continued\ndid he show up in Mexico to make a longer trip and requested a transit\nvisa to the Soviet Union, by way of Cuba?\nCOMMISSION EXHIBIT No. 2954-Continued"
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