Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DICS2CS 3/525-084 17 Oct 62 B-2"plans to write a political biography of Castro." Left Vexico on 2 Oct 62 with Mexican passport 51115 with Cuban courtesy visa. Spent 2 months there.See p. 6.CONF A 1291 9 Apr 63In 20 Mar issue of Siempre he "advocated the creation of a res political party which would reflect the ideolory of Former President Lazero Cardenas.."(dio: he is a founding reccer of the pro-Communist Vill and an ardent supporter of Castro. While in Cuba (Oct-Nov 62) te contributed weekly articles to Siempre in which re sustained the thesis that Cuba is now the center of the world's socialist revolutionary covezent. The Left in Mexico needs a "party of L. Carlenes" which.... would stand for cocialism in internal matters and for independence from ary bloc in external affairs.)S/NF CS 3/552-990 10 July 63To Cuba 25 May-22 June 63; sxent 8 days with CastroUNCL A-6 Merida 6 Aug 63.On 1 August attended the Pro-Castro Vexican-Cuban Institute is Merida accompanied by Luis Albaru the Counselor for Cultural Affairs at the Cuban Embassy.S CS 3/558-382 B-2 6 Sep 63Rico; along with Marcue Pardinas and Carrion Villa was one of the principal organizers and participants in a rally in favor of the political prisoners held in Mexico City on 18 August 63. De rally failed to be held because of police intervention. All arrested end and released same day. On evening of 21 August they derarcen, unsuccessfully, to seo Diaz Ordaz, then Minister of Interior.S/NF CS 3/560-130 25 Sep 63 B-2"Rico planning trip to Guatemala" plans to interview Col. Zarique PERALTA Azuraia, Chief of Guatemalen Government, also visit Guatemala guerrillas.UNCL A-451 24 Oct 63Still on MLN National Committee.S/NF TDCS 3/565-337 20 Nov 63 B-2Interviewed YON Soca in mid-October 63; listed as head of propaganda committee for MLN. TDCS 3/563-671 "reported that Rico hat spent 8 λαγο in Cuba with Castro and...was given an assignment to visit countries in Central and South America (Venezula, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala and Brazil) when he was to persunde Leftist parties to begin Leilate acts of sabotage and violence to take the pressure off Venezuela."S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DIOSEX
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S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DISSEM3B/NFCS 3/566-571 5 Dec 63 F-2Rico hoi an intervice in in late October 63 with David Turmer(Leader of the Vanguard of National Action :--radical pro-Cuban revolutionary group in Panama), Disloha King (pro-Cuban deputy to the National Assembly) and Hugo Victor (president of the Peoples Party, PdP Communist) discussing an armed movement in Panama.B-2An Armando Conte, "a writer for Tiempos in Mexico" reported to have come to Panama and talked to Hugo Victor around 5 Nov 63. He said he had come to convince Victor of the need to support the Cuban line of armed revolution. Victor told Conte that the Pup would not be told what to do because it had its own line on the Panamanian revolution. (Field comment: travel records contain no information on the arrival of any person with the nauce Armando Conte during the period in question and the name is believed to be a pseudonym used by Rico.)8/UPTDC3 3/569-563 10 Jan 64 B-2"Making preparations to go to the Dominican Republic in the very near futuro....ostensibly to gather information for the preparation of some articles on the Dominican Republic."8/NFTDCS 3/569-940 14 Jan 614 B-2Reports have identified Rico as an agent of Fidel Castro io in May 63 was assigned by Castro to visit Central and South American countries to conter with leading Communists in order to initiate programs of anti-US violence and sabotage. He reportedly arrived in Canto Domingo by air on 8 Jan 64 from Kingston, Jaenica to stay about a week.2/NFТПСЗ 3/570-926 23 Jan 64 B-2"While in the Dominican Republic he attempted to get photographs of Dominican guerrilla leaders killed at Las Manaclas on 21 Dec 63 for propaganda purposes.8CS 3/571-822 3 Feb 64 B-2Left Mexico City for Havana by air on 28 Jan 6h (it might be noted that Castro returned from the USSR around that tire).iS/H7C3 311/01556-65 4 Fed 65 C-2Possibly in Chile, He met with members of the MPD while in the Dominican Republic.CONFA-31 10 Feb 65 Merida5Visited Merida (had been there 23 Ost 64) and "It is quite certain that there will shortly appear in Siempre (Mexican leftist weekly) more articles on the henequen situation. It can be expected that Rico Galan will attempt to attribute all or a large portion of Yucatan's troubles to the 'imperialistic" US."S-E-C-R-E-TNO FORSIGN DISSEM
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S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DICUMCONF CS 311/03173-65 15 Mar 65 "reporting to far accurate""Rico went to Merida during the first few days of February to cake aperconal investigation of the situation caused by the decrease in theprice of henequen.." Rico wrote "Yucatan: Our leader is Hunger" inIssure $10, 3 Mar 65, of Siempre.CONT A-1033 from Mexico 1 May 65Re Dominican Republic: "Rico, writing in the ultra-left Diario deMéxico favored Bosch's return, originally wishing his exor luck, andlater, after the apparent failure of pro-Bosch forces, complained that"the reactionaries alvaya win out in Latin American coups, being sup-ported by the US, or clõe the coups fail."CONF/NF CS 311/07174-65 11 Jun 65Veteran and trusted PPS member, prolific reporter of reliable infor-mation, described Rico as "member of the Peoples Electoral Front (FEP)and National Liberation Movement (MMA) [who] was one of those leaderswho met in March or April 65 to draw up a letter of comocation to theNational Congress on the Liberty of the Political Fricorers and theRepeal of the Law of Social Dissolution)."S/NF CS 311/04619-66 1 April 66 "source believed to have good access to theCuatemalen exile community"Planning to investigate the disappearance of Victor Varmel GUTTERFEZGarbin, Cuateralan Communist Party (FCT) leader of the Gatecilan exilecommunity in Mexico, who returned to Guatemala in late Feary. Sourcecomment: "Rico could only enter Guatemala illegally streetsclared persona non grata by the Guateralan Government in 1963 after hevisited the country to interview President Peralta. Wile there, hoalso managed to talk with Marco Antonio YON SE, gerrilla leader.Upon his return to Mexico, Rico Calan wrote articles favorable to therebels and cost unflattering to the Peralta governsent."CONF Incoming telegram 15986(7) 5 Apr 66Alleged to have been one of two leaders (other was Jacinto LopezUGOCM secgen) planned to lead mass meeting 6 April "to comezaratomartyrs of September attack" (7? no further mention).S/NF CS 311/06625-66 23 May 66 reporting believed reliableCould not attend an MLN meeting because of liness.UNCL FPIR 0112/66 23 May 66In February became involved in a verbal editorial battle on the pagesof Granma with Frane BARBIERI of the Yugoslav newspaper Politika.No conclusion reached.CONF A-721 from Mexico 22 Jan 66Rico...has been one of the most prolific and ardent apologists forCastro's Cuba in Mexico. In an interview between an Ecbassy officerS-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DISAM
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S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DISSEN5and the writer, Elena Garro do Faz, the latter states: "the Cuban Embassy had severely chided Rico for writing an article favorable to the guerrilla leaders who were killed recently during their assault on the army barracks at Madera, Chihuahua.... Rico had been close to "Che" Guevarra rather than Castro, and that since Guevarra's disappearance he had grown noticeably cooler toward Cuba." She added that although he is a Marxist and is anti-American, Rico is also very hostile to the Mexican Communist Farty (PCM).S/NF TDCS 314/10379-66 17 Aug 66 highly placed police official, reporting believed reliable."Sufficient legal evidence is available to prove that Rico, Raul Ugalde and others were a part of a conspiracy advocating and teaching the overthrow of the Mexican government by violent means."CONF/NF TDCS 314/10419-66 18 Aug 66 presumed B-212-13 August, Rico arrested with 40 others; the PPS is pleased and will do nothing to help them. "According to Carlos Sanchez Cardenas of the PPS National Executive Directorate, it is almost impossible to believe that a man like Rico could be the leader of an armed rebel moverent. He has always been considered a Marxist intellectual belonging to no party who has confined his battles to the pages of magazines like Politica Siempre, and Sucesos. Lombardo Toledano frankly thought of him as incapable of doing anything that involved a mass following."Additional information:From WH-1/Mexico:Parents: Victor RICO GonzalezFernando GALAN Sieiros(Spanich nationals--no information available, Mexican and Spanich files)Wife: Ingabont DIENER de Rico(No information available, Mexican or Scandinavian files. In German files, there is reference to an Inge Diener; into dated 14 May 1956: born in Guben, 1920; of average intelligence; convinced, ranatical Communist; not liked; dangerous; of proletarian background; trained for administrative work; after 1945 worked for Cadre Department of city administration of Guben; from 1950-1952 studied at Academy for Administration in Forst-Zinna; afterwards obtained position in ministry; at first worked in Culre Department, was responsible for embassy and trade mission personnel; transferred to present position because of disagreements with Vose (fnu); now responsible for currency matters; takes course duringS-E-C-R-E-TNO FORSIGN DISSEM
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S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DISSEM6SED Party School Year; mediocre qualifications; active in politics; member of Central Party Directorate and SED.Pen names: Armande Conte--no info Mexican, Cuban, or Guatemalan files.Sebastian Canell--no info Mexican files.* CS 3/539-735 11 March 1963 B-2  One of a number of leftists (Terrazas Guerrero another one) who voted to reinstate Marcue Pardinas in the MLN.S-E-C-R-E-TNO FOREIGN DISSEM
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# SECRETVictor RICO GalanBasic Biographic Data1. Full Name : Victor RICO Galan, has used pen namo   Armando CONTE and possibly Sebastian KANELL2. Place and Date of Birth: El Forrol (Galicia), Spain, 6 Fob 283. Citizenship : Mexican, naturalized 15 March 19494. Official Documents: Naturalization Certificato #445, 15 Mar 49   Mexican Passport #57115   Mexican Passport #53641, issued 9 Bep 63   and expired 15 March 1965.5. Father : Victor RICO Gonzales, resident of El Ferrol,   Spain, forced to leave Spain on account of   Spanish Civil War, arrived Veracruz, Moxico,   6 November 1939.6. Mother : Fornanda GALAN Sueiras, also a resident of   El Ferrol, Spain, where she married   RICO Gonzalos in September 1922; she and her   three children were separated from her husband   during the Spanish Civil War and arrived in   Moxico to join him in March 1940 as "asilados   politicos".7. Siblinga : Fernando RICO Galan; PDOB: El Ferrol, Spain,   9 April 1929.   Ana Maria RICO Galan; PDOB: E1 Ferrol, Spain,   14 September 1930.8. Spouse : Ingobord. DIENER de RICO Galan; PDCB: Mexico,   11 May 1929.9. Other Relatives : Mother-in-law: Tilli PICHIER viuda de DIENER   at whose home Subject and wife lived until   June 1965: Providencia #930, Mexico, D. F.,   Tel: 23-07-92.10. Arreste : Was among leading agitators arrested on    18 August 1963 by Moxican police for partici-    pating in demonstrations in favor of political    prisoners; was released on same day.11. Physical Description: Sox: Male, Color: White, Build: Stocky,    Hoight: 5'9" (1.78m), Hair: Greying,    Moustache as of Betpomber 1963.12. Present Addreва : (Since June 1965) Ernestina Lanainzar 19-B,    Colonia del Valle, Mexico, D. V., Tal.43-54-94SECRET
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SECRET-2-13. Travel:In Cuba July 1962Went to Cuba 2 Oct 62, joined by wife Nov 62, returned Mexico Dec 62Went to Cuba 25 May 63, returned Mexico 22 Jun 63Went to Guatemala early Oct 63 for a few days; may have spent short time in SalvadorEntered Honduras 11 Oct 63 and left 13 Oct 63Entered Nicaragua 13 Oct 63 and left 17 Oct 63Entered Costa Rica 17 Oct 63 and left 20 Oct 63Entered Panama 20 Oct 63 and left 22 Oct 63Entered Venezuela 22 Oct 63 and loft 12 Νοv 63Entered Brazil 12 Nov 63; may have traveled to Cuba, perhaps clandestinely and reentored BrazilEntered Argentina 4 Doc 63 and left 12 Dec 63Entered Chile 12 Doc 63 and left 16 Dec 63Entered Peru 17 Dec 63 and loft same dayEntered Bolivia 17 Dec 63 and left 20 Dec 63Entered Peru 20 Doc 63 and returned Mexico possibly on same dayLeft Moxico and arrived Jamaica 8 Jan 64 ca route to Dominican Republic where he arrived on the same day; he left on 15 Jaa 34-and returned Mexico via Jamaica on the same day.Went to Cuba 28 Jan 64 and returned Mexico 25 Fob 64Possibly several clandestino trips to Guatemala in middle and lato 1964.Went to Cuba 29 Mar 65 with wife and returned Mexico 12 Apr 65Font to Cuba in early 66 and returned Moxico 11 Feb 66SECRET
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SECRET## Summary1.  Victor RICO Galan is a prominent pro-Castro Marxist journal-ist associated with *Politica* a pro-Communist bi-weekly news magazine and *Siempre* a Mexico City Toftist news wockly. In 1961 he wan reported to be a member of the Periodistas Mexicanos Amigos de Cuba and the Committee for Solidarity with the Cuban Rovolution. As of June 1965 he was reported to be a mombor of the Fronte Electoral del Pueblo (FEP). He was a founder of the Movimiento de Liboracion Nacional (MLN) of which he was the head of the hational press and propaganda committee as of 1962. RICO acted as a Cuban agent in trips to Central and South America in late 1963 and early 1964. His pro-Castro communist writings as well as his contacts with known Soviet and Bloc intelligence personnel in Mexico during the past fow years strongly suggest a propaganda role under journalistic cover on behalf of their interests.2.  Little is known of RICO's oarly life or oducation beyond what is listed in his basic biographic data. There is a possibility that he was active in communist affairs in Costa Rica and El Salvador in the period 1946-1948 and in Colombia in 1949-1950.3.  RICO Galan's prominence in Mexican loftist circles has been primarily intellectual. In an article in *Siempre* in March 1963 ho advocated the foundation of a new political party reflecting the truo ideology of Lazaro CARDENAS. RICO felt that this would provide the Mexican loft with a political party truly responsive to the radical tendencies of the 1910 revolution. This was necessary, in RICO's view, because the MLN was an action organization rather than a political party, whose mombership covered a political spectrum from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) to the Partido Comunista de Mexico (PCM), and was therefore diluted in effectiveness. A now party would reprosont a "third position": Socialism in internal affairs and independence of any bloc in international affairs, With such a political action arm, wrote RICO, the iLN would dovolop naturally into a broad national movement such as the FRAP in Chilo.4.  Victor RICO Galan is an ardent supporter of Fidel CASTRO and is reported to be a close friend of his. In order to gather material for a biography of CASTRO, RICO, later joined by his wife, visited Cuba in October 1962 for about two months. He visited Cuba again during part of May and most of June 1963 when he spent eight days with CASTRO, five of them at sea in CASTRO's boat, ostensibly to discus CASTRO's recont trip to the Soviet Union and his talks with KHRUSCHEV. On this visit the Cuban Government gave RICO a mission to travel through Contral and South America to contact local communists and guerrilla leaders and persuade then to begin immediately campaigns of violence and terror in order to take the pressure off the FALN in Venezuola. RICO was also charged to try to bring about greater unity among the various leftist groups.SECRET
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SECRET-3-5. In the Fall and Winter of 1963 and late 1964 undertook this mission. Even though a known leftist he possibly had some arrangement with the Mexican Government which may have gotten him special privi- logos and support from Mexican embassies in countries whore ho visited. In Guatemala RICO interviewed Gonoral Enrique PERALTA Azurdia the Chief of Government and then met Raul ALARCON Monsanto, military training leader of the Partido Guatemalteco de Trabajo (PGT), who took him to meet and interview Marco Antonio YON Sosa an anti regime guerrilla leader; RICO possibly also met a (fnu) GOMEZ Ayau also a guorrilla leader. In Nicaragua ho mot with Alvaca RAMIREZ Gonzalos, Socretary Gonoral of the Mobilizacion Republicana (MR) and a member of the Contral Committee of the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). In Costa Rica ho mot with one of the MORA brothers, a guerrilla leader. In Panama ho mot Hugo VICTOR, prosident of the Partido del Pueblo (PDP), and David TURNER, loader of the Vanguard of National Action (VAN), and attempted to reconcile them in their dispute for leadership of the rovolution in Panama; ho also urged an immediate program of sabotage and violonco. RICO wont on to Venezuela to meet Argelia LAYA; he was probably in contact with the MIR while there. He then wont to Brazil where he contacted Paulo SCHILLING, coordinator of the Popular Mobi- lization Front. During this time he may have gone to Cuba briefly and returned directly to Brazil. After a fow days back in Mexico RICO went to the Dominican Republic whore ho attempted unsuccessfully to obtain photographs of Dominican guerrillas killed the month before, probably to uso them for propaganda purposes. As a result of his contact with the Agrupacion Politica Catorce Junio (APCJ) in the Dominican Republic ho was able to servo during the Dominican Republic crisis of May 1965 as a relay point for material and instructions from Cuba to the APCJ and also as a reporting channel from Juan B. MEJIA and APCJ leaders to the Cuban Intelligence Service and the APCJ'S CASTRO Cuban leadership in Cuba. After his return to Mexico City RICO visited Cuba again ostensibly to interview CASTRO on his most recent trip to the Soviet Union and probably to report on his mission.6. RICO Galan continued his interest in the guerrilla struggle and was reported to have entered Guatemala clandestinoly in August 1964 and possibly several times before then as well, to visit YON Sosa and his guerrillas. In March 1966, after having returned from Cuba the month before, he planned to travel again to Guatemala clandestinely in order to investigate the disappearance of Victor Manuel GUTIERREZ, leader of the PGT and of the Guatemalan exile community in Mexico, who had recently returned to Guatemala.7. RICO's writings show an ardent support for the guerrillas in Latin America and for their method in achieving the revolution. In October 1964 the Guatemalan Armed Forcos captured a number of tape recorders and tapes from the guerrillas including one bySECRET
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SECRET-3-Victor RICO Galan. This tapo consisted mainly of an oxhortation for unity botween the PGT and the 13 November Group, and counsolod against letting doctrine roplace action. RICO's talk to the guerrillas undor YON Bosa rovoals him as an intellectual radical with a pragmatio approach towards current situations. The text of the tapes indicate that they were made between February and mid-October 1964. On 13 January 1966 El Moraldo, a Mexico City newspapor published an article quoting RICO Calan's tapod spooch as ovidonce of his his offorts to undermine the January 1966 visit of DIAZ Ordaz to Guatemala. The text of the tape was possibly passed to El Heraldo by the Mexican authorities in line with the Government's campaign to neutralize all potential and existing opposition to the impending visit.SECRET
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# SECRETContacts:Nikolay LEONOV, Soviet Press Attache and KGB officer, with whom RICO may have arranged a meeting in May 1965 with Dr. Emilio CORDERO, Dominican exile in Mexico City.Jovan MIRIC, a Yugoslavian journalist in Mexico and possible intelli- gonce officer with whom RICO, around the middle 1965, discussed the Dominican situation and Oas intervention in the Dominican Republic.Branko MILIJANOVIC, an intelligence officer in the Yugoslavian Embassy in Panama who may have had contact with RICO; in Jan 64 MILIJANOVIC told Thelma KING, a prominent Panamanian Communist, that RICO wanted her to go to Moxioo and Cuba and arrange a moet- ing between CASTRO omissarios, and three loft wing Panamanian political figures Carlos Ivan ZUNIGA, Fabian ECHEVERS, both membere of the Panamanian Socialist Party (PSP), and Manuel SOLIS Palma, Panamanian Minister of Education.Miroya de VAN RABEN, member of the Contral Committee of the Trotskyite Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR), with whom RICO had social contact in 1965.Prof Juan MASCARO Neves, a Spanish national who, with his wife Carmen GARCIA de MASCARO, was activo in connection with affairs of the Cuban Consulate in Tampico before he was deported to Vonozuola in May 1966 for violating Mexican Immigration Law; he was a key contact of Victor RICO Galan during a visit the latter made to Tampico and Ciudad Monte in April 1968.# SECRET
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SECRETAddendumBasic Biographic Data1.  Education: Victor RICO Galan may have studied at the School of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). One report states that he may have studied philology at UNAM.2.  Siblings : In May 1966 his sister Ana Maria RICO Galan was reported married to Guillermo MENDIZABAL, a collaborator with Mexican Trotskyists. An August 1966 article in the Mexican newspaper Excelsior stated that Ana Maria RICO Galan used her ex-husband's name and called herself Carmen MENDIZABAL Lizalde. Another report of August 1966 states that Carmen MENDIZABAL Lizal, Victor PICO Galan's sister, may have travelled frequently to Guatemala and have been the contact between the Partido Comunista de El Salvador (PCES) and the Partido Comunista de Mexico (PCM).3.  Travel : A farewell party was given for RICO on 9 September 1961 but there is no record of where he travelled.SECRET
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SECRETSummary1. Victor RICO Galan joined the staff of Al Dia, an anti-U. S. magazine, in January 1956 and was listed as its editor-in-chief in 1958. In February 1957 he was editor-in-chief of a new magazine La Gazeta de Mexico, published by the Buro de Investigaciones Politicas (BIP) headed by a Communist Horacio QUINONES.2. In 1956, according to an August 1966 article in the Mexico City newspapor El Sol de Mexico, Victor RICO Galan, Fidol CASTRO, and Raul CASTRO, received instruction in Guerrilla tactics from Alberto BAYO, a Spanish Communist, at Rancho San Miguel, Ayotzingo, Mexico. According to the article, on various occasions in 1956 RICO visited the CASTRO brothers at the ranch where they were receiving instruction.3. In September 1960 Victor RICO Galan was Chief of Information of Pueblo, an anti-U. S. pro-Cuba newspaper and was a member of the preparatory committee for the second International Congress of Journalists to be held in Austria in October 1960. The following year he was reported to be a leader of the intellectual faction of the Mexican committee to givo impulse to fight for peace and international cooper-ation which was making preparations for the Latin American Peace Congress scheduled for Mexico City in March 1961.4. In November 1965 Victor RICO Galan was reported to have been a militant member of the Trotskyite Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR/T) middle guard headed by Juan POSADAS.SECRET
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SECRETContacts:Victor RICO Galan is known to have been in contact with the Soviets as early as November 1956 when he was invited to attend a reception at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.Umanislaw RACZKA, employee of the Press and Propaganda Section of the Polish Legation in Mexico City was in contact with RICO in July 1959.Aleksandr BEKIER, Counselor of the Polish Embassy in Mexico City and known Intelligence Officer. RICO arranged for him to meet Carlo COCCIOLI, a homosexual Italian pro-Communist writer for *Siempre* magazine.Mariano GARCIA Perez, Cuban Consul in Merida, who while in Mexico City in July 1966 was in contact with Victor RICO Galan.SECRET