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April 13, 1967
TO:
JIM GARRISON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY
FROM:
ANDREW J. SCIAMBRA, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY
RE:
INTERVIEW WITH MIGUEL CRUZ ON MARCH 19, 1967
IN BATON ROUGE, LQUISIANA
I traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to talk to MIGUEL
CRUZ who informed me that he was present when CARLOS BRINGUIER
and OSWALD had the fight on Canal Street in front of the Maison
Blanche Building. MIGUEL': address in Baton Rouge, is 505 East
Stadium Street on the L.S.U. Campus, telephone #388-2097. His
New Orleans address is 2526 Mazant Street, telephone 943-0082.
MIGUEL CRUZ is from Camaguay, Cuba and he came to this
country December 5, 1962. He says that he does not know CARLOS
QUIROGA, ALBERTO FOWLER or RICARDO DAVIS. Hesaid that he had
done some work for ALPHA 66, whose leader is ELOY GUTIERREZ
MENOYA (who was subsequently captured by Castro and may be a
prisoner in Cuba at the present time) CRUZ said that the first
time he saw OSWALD was when OSWALD and BRINGUIER had the fight
on Canal Street; that he was in BRINGUIER's store when he was
informed by CELSO HERNANDEZ that OSWALD was distributing leaflets
in front of the Maison Blanche Building. CRUZ said that 2 days
before this, OSWALD had come into BRINGUIER's store and offered
to help him train Cubans for the invasion of Cuba. OSWALD showed
BRINGUIER a Marine Training Manual that he had, and OSWALD told
BRINGUIER that this manual told how to train people for warfare.
CRUZ said that he and BRINGUIER and HERNANDEZ left the S tore and
immediately went to Canal Street where BRINGUIER and OSWALD
exchanged a few words and had the fight. CRUZ said that he was
arrested along with OSWALD and BRINGUIER and sat right next to
OSWALD in the police car on the way to the district. He said
that OSWALD never said a word either in the police car or in the
district. The next time CRUZ saw OSWALD was when they had to go
to court. He believes the following day. CRUZ said at this time
OSWALD did not say anything to anybody, and wen t and sat down in
the colored section of the courtroom with some colored prisoners.
CRUZ said that he had never seen OSWALD with any strong
looking Latin-American type individuals, but he could remember a
strong lookingLatin-American type person around 25 or 30 years
old who was a little taller than OSWALD and who weighed close to
200 pounds, standing in front of the Maison Blanche Building with
a camera and taking pictures of OSWALD and other people when
OSWALD was distributing leaflets there. He asked a few people
where they were from and seemed interested in what was going
He was dressed in a suit and tie and wore dark glasses,
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