Cryptonym: TZFRESH
8/12/95 memo to REDACTED, re "Rio meeting of Cuban CI officers and alleged CIA officers. Action requested, see below. Please forward any additional information on seminar or attendees. Additional details provided re Ref A much appreciated. Checks of Agency indices did not turn up a John Newman as a current staffer. Having only John Newman's name, as provided by the newspaper article, was insufficient to run a meaningful search of other indices and other personnel records. (Former Cuban CI officer Fabian Escalante) believed that 'some elements of the CIA operational arm' in combination with the Mafia were responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy. Escalante made it clear that he did not believe that the CIA acted on its own. Escalante's current position is unclear. He attended the conference as a PCC-CC member...any information Base can obtain on the seminar agenda and attendees and what prompted the holding of the seminar by Jose Lisboa Da (Gama Malcher) would be of interest in evaluating the Cuban hand and intent. We are particularly interested in learning whether Agee or any of his ilk plan to attend and the meaning of Sroulevich's statement regarding Cuban CI officers' 'parallel contacts' with CIA officials planned to be in attendance."
104-10326-10074: CABLE:BRIEFING PAPER AND OSWALD FILES
8/16/95 memo: CIA has learned that an Ambassador has submitted to REDACTED a request for the files on Oswald. "Station judges by this that FBI has carried the action to State with this result..."
8/23/95 memo to Director (REDACTED): (TZFRESH-17, a woman) ALSO ADVISED THAT TZFRESH [redacted] IS SENDING PERSONNEL TO COVER THE MEETING, AND WILL PHOTOGRAPH PARTICIPANTS.
8/31/95 memo to Director: This information about what looks like an anti-CIA campaign is passed on to State and also "FOIA" - which is "responsible for determining what (CIA) information on the assassination will be released."
9/14/95 memo to CIA Director: "...Consider alerting other stations to Cuban CA against NWBOLTON. TZKILT-79 attended ref JFK Assassination seminar in Rio which was attended by CA 100 persons first day, and between 20-30 persons subsequent days...K-79 purchased the book by Claudia Furiati and the video entitled "ZR - The Rifle that Killed Kennedy", based on the book, and produced by Furiati's husband, Nei Sroulevich. The video, as opposed to the seminar, should not be taken so lightly. It is a very well done compilation of facts, obviously interspersed with the Cuban CA line, but done in such a way that it is convincing...(that) Lee Harvey Oswald was an NWBOLTON tool who was made to look like a Communist hit man through careful staging...TZKILT-79 (is) 201-969899..."