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# 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYThis material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.SECRETNO FORSIGN DISSENCOUNTRY CubaREPORT NO. CS CI 316/00643-64SUBJECT Guillermo ARASTAGUIADATE DISTR. 11 August 1964NO. PAGES 2DATE OFINFO.1964REFERENCES CSCI-3/779,803CS-311/00115-64PLACE Washington, D. C.DATE ACQ. August 1964FIELD REPORT NO.THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVESOURCE A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964.Headquarters CommentsThe following report is one of a series containing personality information provided by the source and includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency.It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first checking with this Agency.1. Guillermo ARASTAGUIA, pseudonym "Rene," is the chief of the Department of Technical Operational Support (MI) in the Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI). He was formerly the secretary of Ramiro VALDES in the Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security - DSE), but ARASTAGUIA was a follower of Anibal ESCALANTE and because of a problem concerning ESCALANTE and because ARASTAGUIA was believed to be a homosexual, VALDES transferred him to the DGI. ARASTAGUIA went to the Youth Festival in Helsinki as a representative of the DGI and has traveled to Moscow three times.RETURN TO CIABackground Use OnlyDo Not Reproduce2. ARASTAGUIA was born in 1934, is about five feet seven inches in height, has blond hair and green eyes. He is fat, has a chin that juts out, lips that are somewhat sunken, and has a rather high pitched voice and seems effeminate. 1,2,3Headquarters Comments1. A report dated 6 October 1960, from an [official Ecuadorean] source, provided a list of Cuban Communists. One Guillermo ARRASTIA, aka "Rene," possibly identical with Guillermo ARASTAGUIA, was included and described as a first lieutenant,| STATE | DIA                                         | ARMY    | NAVY | AIR | NSA | JCS | OCR | FBI 2 || ----- | ------------------------------------------- | ------- | ---- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ----- ||       | REP CINCLANT                                | CINCSO= | IRNS |     |     |     |     |       ||       | (Note: Field distribution indicated by "*") |         |      |     |     |     |     |       || /SA/FOR FE/5/F                 | 1   | CI/LIA | IF  | CANADA | LX-1631            || ------------------------------ | --- | ------ | --- | ------ | ------------------ || W/SA/NOF C/MADR                | 2   | CI/RSA | IE  | GRITIS | NO PROJECT (AMMUG/ || /SA/                           |     |        |     |        | CSCI-323/00643-64  || /SA/OT                         | 1   | RID/AX | 1   |        |                    || SA 7 (1), WE 1 (2), CIA, RID 1 |     |        |     |        |                    |LIAISON *