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# CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH**SECRET**UFGA-4703prosecution for acts against it, is a matter for wonder. It has been rumored that the (old politician) has a blackmail hold over Fidel CASTRO by virtue of his possession of very damaging information about CASTRO. There may be some substance to this rumor. As a young student, CASTRO is believed to have committed criminal acts, and the (old politician) would have been in the best possible position at the time to obtain proof of them. This might well explain why the family enjove immunity today.56. It would seem, though, that an alert and competent security service, which the G-2 shows signs of becoming, if it is enjoined from arresting and prosecuting an espionage suspect, would at least try to control and monitor his operations by penetrating them. It is therefore a cause for speculation that, in February 1962, an important officer of the Cuban Army (AMEAUNA-4) allegedly desirous of defecting, was introduced by Identity-13 to AMCOG-2, and a matter for deep concern that AMCOG-2 passed the lead along to AMFAUNA-1 who accepted it without any prior checking and actually held his first meeting with the would be defector in an automobile traceable to AMFAUNA-2. Since then, it has been observed that reports and sub-sources offered by AMFAUNA-4 are absorbing an increasing amount of AMFAUNA-1's time. The military manuals and documents turned over by AMFAUNA-4, and sent to Headquarters via the (QUANTUMs) and the (Madrid Station), have not yet been seen by JMWAVE, so it is not yet known whether AMFAUNA-4's production can be given a sufficiently high evaluation to allay the doubts raised by the manner of his recruitment. Headquarters is asked to advise on this as soon as possible, and to provide traces on AMFAUNA-4.57. The other potentially dangerous contacts are, as might be expected, in the field of para-military activities. In November 1961, AMFAUNA-1 was in touch with Identity-52, a (nephew of Oswaldo RAMIREZ), through Identity-51, a resident of (Cienfuegos) Identity-52 was arrested) late in the year. AMFAUNA-1 then developed another contact to the (Oswaldo RAMIREZ group) through Identity-12, (RAMIREZ's Havana) (representative, whose cutout to AMFAUNA-1. was AMFAUNA-3, a woman from (Sancti Spiritus) now resident in Havana. Identity-12 was arrested in April, presumably as an aftermath of the 16 April battle in which RAMIREZ was reportedly killed.58. In late May or early June 1962, Identity-8, a person from Sancti Spiritus known to AMFAUNA-3, called on her in the company of a certain (Ricardo *IZQUIERDO) who claimed to have had a meeting on 28 May near Trinidad with one Comandante Fide: HERNANDEZ Perez) who gave (IZQUIERDO) a letter for delivery to Identity-12. Unable to find Identity-12 because of the latter's arreste (ZQUIERDO) approached Identity-8 who introduced him to AMPAUNA-3 to whom he handed over the letter. The letter reads as follows;"Dear Brother-in-Arms:"I greet you and officially report to you, as our representative to the Military Junta of the FND, the sad news of the death of our commander-in-chief, Oswaldo RAMIREZ, on 16 April last at 9 a.m. He fell in battle together with other brothers. The certificate to this effect, containing the testimony of Captain BORGE, chief of the personal guard, and of other members of his escort, is in my possession, and I will hand it over to you or to anyone designated by the Military Junta of the FND."The disorganization caused by the above-mentioned events prevented our reporting this news to you right away, and only now have we been able to make contact with the bearer, a man who has been working for some time as messenger and enjoying the complete confidence of Oswaldo RAMIREZ and of ourselves in particular."> [Figure] APERTURE CARD REPRODUCTIONS