3rd part of the Mexico Trip series at CTKA

[David Josephs]

So what you are saying is, whoever made this reservation paid for the ticket in advance? A not uncommon practice for thrifty gringos nowadays, but perhaps then and there most people just bought the ticket when they actually arrive for the bus. If "Oswald" (or whoever) paid for it in advance (maybe in violation of instructions), then that indicates that "Oswald" (or whoever) did not expect to succeed being allowed to travel to Cuba on Sept. 30. If Oswald was convinced he was going to fail on 9/30, why wait until 10/2 to make the bus ride?

Not exactly Drew.

The reservations were made on Sept 30th at the travel agency with BARRIOS
BARRIOS - who has Mr. LEE inn front of him - takes the payment and gives Mr. LEE PO#14618 and Exchange Order 43599 which are to be given in for the actual tickets - like #13688 from Mexico City to Laredo on Del Norte

Strange thing #1 is that these two items SHOULD have been done at the same time yet one is dated Sept 30 while the other Oct 1.

At 8:15am at the Del Norte terminal in Mexico City he hands over PO#14618 and supposedly gets 3 ticket stubs for #13688 - one of which is found by Marina in Aug 1964 while the other two are found by TREVINO in an envelope for the bus #373 trip between Monterrey and Laredo.

The ticket agent in Mexico City who claims to have done this transaction ANGEL CURIEL is the man whose stamp we should see on the back of all three portions of ticket #13688. Not only does this not happen, CURIEL cannot recall Oswald from the photo and the man whose stamp does appear, JUAN GASCON says he did not recall seeing Oswald. The date of these stamps, even though it is now Oct 2nd, says Sept 30th.

There are more tickets in the Monterrey envelope than passengers. The MExico city #332 bus envelope SHOULD have this first part - they should not BOTH be in the Monterrey envelope and the date stamp on the back needs to have been at least the 2nd of Oct and with CURIEL's name.

ALL of this evidence was created after the fact - as a result conflicts will arise. This is one of those conflicts the FBI knew would not, couldnot be discovered for many years. Sprague was basically removed from HSCA cause he wanted to see all the Mexico evidence.

The CIA said no and required him to sign a secrecy oath which he would not... the rest is Blakey history.

DJ