Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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Notes forA Portrait of a Castro-CommunistAgentVictor Rico Galan was born 6 February 1928 in El Ferrol, Spain. He is Spanish by birth, bocame a Mexican citizen by naturalization in March 1949. He is married to Ingeborg Diener de Rico Galan, born 11 May 1929 in Med co City. He residos at Ernestina Larrainsar 19-1B, Col. del Valle in Mexico City. He writes for both *Stompro*, Mexico City leftist news-weekly, and *Politica*, pro-Communist bi-weekly newsmagazino.VRG reportedly talked to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in 1961 regarding the formation of the *Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLM)* in Mexico. With their approval ho became one of the founding members of the MLN and later headed the MLN Press and Propaganda Committee. In a speech to the MLN in April 1962 he stated, "The government must be made to understand that only the people have the right to violence." (This was in reference to the Mexican government repression of the Communist Party and ite arrest of David Alvaro Siquioros.)In an article in *Siempre* in March 1963 VRG advocated the formation of a new political party reflecting the ideology of General Lazaro Cardenas, former President of Mexico. VRG said this new political party was needed to truly represent the radical tendencies of the 1910 revolution. VRC conceived this new party as the political arm of the recently-formed MLN, which could thus develop into a bread national pro-Communist movement like the FRAP in Chile.VRG has always been very close and sympathotic to the Castro-Cuban revolution. In 1961 he was a member of the *Periollstas Mexicanos Amigos da Cube*. Also in 1961 he was reported to be a member of the *Committee for Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution*. In March 1962 ha was reportedly a member of a group of four pro-Castroites who made an abortive physical attack on Emilio Uranga, writer for *Stompro* who has written anti-Castro fiems. As the group converged on Uranga other members of the *Stompre* stali intervened and the matter was settled without violence.From October to December 1962 VRG was in Cuba, as a correspondent for *Sigmpre* and also reportedly to gather material for a political biography
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of Fidel Castro. In an article written for Siempre while he was in Cuba(Siempre 31 Oct 62) he extols the great Cuban revolution and the advantagesCastroism has brought to the lower classes. In a later article (Siempre14 Nov 62) he attacks the Soviet Union and Khrushchev for their weakness duringthe Cuban missile crisis. He refers to Fidel Castro as being the vanguard ofthe revolution against Colonialiem.From late. May to mid June 1968 VRG was again in Cuba, this time tointerview Fidel Castro following the latter's return from the Soviet Union.VRG reportedly spent 8 days with Fidel Castro, five of thein aboard the Cubanleader's yacht, and also interviewed other Cuban leaders, including Blas Roca,Secretary-General of the Partido Socialista Popular (PSP Cuban CommunistParty); Ernesto "Che" Guevara Serna, Minister of Industries; OswaldoDorticos Torrado, Cuban President; and Raul Roa Garcia, Minister of ForeignRelations,It was during this May-June 1963 contact with Fidel Castro and other Cubanleaders that VRG received a major operational assignment. He was given themission of traveling through Central and South America to contact localCommunist and guerrilla leaders. His job was to persuade these groups to begincampaigns of violence and terror immediately in order to take the pressure off-the FALN in Venesuela, whose program of terror, heavily subsidized by Castro,was beginning to run into increased resistance from the Venezuelan governmentforces. On this trip VRG also had the mission of bringing about greater unityamong the various Communist and terroristic groups.In late 1963 VRG undertook his assigned mission. He traveled to Panama,Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venesuela, Nicaragua and Brasil and contacted koyCommandets in each of theee countries.Among the Communist leaders which VRG contacted on this trip wereHugo Victor, President of the Partido del Pueblo (PDP People's Party,a Communist group) and David Turner, a leader of the Yanguard of NationalAction (VAN a pro-Cuban, radical revolutionary organisation) in Panama;Gones Ayay, a guerrilla leader in Cuatemala; and Francisco Juliao, therovolutionary peasant leader, in Brazil.In Nicaragua VRC mot several times with Alvaro Ramiren Conzalen,Secretary General of the Movilizacion Republicana (MR Coaununist PoliticalFreny who was also a member of the Central Committee of the Partido Socialinin Nicaragua (PSN), the Nicaraguan Communist Party. VRC's visit with
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Ramirez was given considerable radio and press publicity in Nicaragua. The pross referred to "secret meetings" in VRG's hotel room between Ramires and VRG. Ramires answered by writing letters to the newspapers, saying he met VRG quite openly in his office and that VRG had called on him because he (VRG) was a legitimate journalist who was seeking interviews with various political figures. On 24 October Ramirez was interviewed on radio and finally reluctantly admitted that he had gone to VRG's hotel room. He said his purpose in going there was to take VRG to his (Ramirez's) office.In Panama VRG stayed at the Hotel International. While in Panama he visited US installations and was seen taking many pictures. His talks with Hugo Victor and David Turner were aimed at getting the VAN and the PDF to resolve their differences and to unite. Turner briefed VRG on VAN's preparations to establish an armed movement in Panama, Victor, on the other hand, spurned VRG's to unify the two groups.Following this trip in late 1963, VRG returned to Cuba (in January 1964) and visited Fidel Castro again and to report on the results of his contacts with Central and Latin American Communist leaders.In late March 1965 VRG (with his wife) again traveled to Cuba to report to Cuban leaders. He returned to Mexico in early April 1965.In May 1964 VRG was invited to visit Red China, ostensibly as a guest of the All-China Journalists Association, which indicated it would be willing to pay all costs, including transportation. Because of other pressing work in connection with hió assignments on behalf of Castro, VRG did not accept this invitation.Over the years 1961 to 1965 VRG's contacts with the Cuban Enibassy in Mexico City have increased steadily. He meets frequently and regularly with various officials of the Cuban Embassy, usually at his home, at the Siempre offices or at the homes of the Cuban officials in Mexico City.His most frequent contact is with Manuel Eugenio Vega Perez, Third Secretary of the Cuban Embassy and chief representative of the Dirrecion General da Inteligencia (DGI- Cuban Intelligence Service) in Mexico. Obese and outwardly jolly, Vega Peres was the driver of a beer truck in Havana prior to the Cuban Reolution which launched him on his intelligence cargar.
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-4-Another VRG Cuban intelligence contact is Ramon Sinobas Casado, Counselor of the Cuban Embassy. Sinobas is Voga's assistant in handling" VRG. It is apparent that these contacts are primarily for the purpose of channeling VRG's reports and instructions to and from Cuba. In the course of his work as an agent for Castro and the DGI, VRG is known to have acted as a courier, carrying material and large sums of money to pro-Cuban groups in Central and Latin American countries.In October 1964 VRG received another important assignment from his Cuban mastera. VRG was requested to travel to Guatemala to make a personal survey of the strength and weaknesses of Marco Antonio Yon Soea's guerrilla forces and to lay the basis for a more energetic implementation in Guatemala of the tactical principles for guerrilla warfare laid down by "Che" Guevara. This was, in effect, a follow-up to his earlier visit to Yon Sosa during his swing through Contral American countries in late 1963. At that time, VRG attempted to persuade Yon Sosa to align himself more closely with Castro's objectives in Latin America. The results of this visit to Guatemala were written up by VRG in a special report to Castro, VRG's conclusions at that time were not completely favorable to Castro.Yon Sosa is known to be a forceful and independent querrilla leader who prides himself on his ability to maintain himself and his followers independently of ideological guidance from either Havana, Paking or Moscow, although he is quite willing to accept arms and financial support from any of these Communist capitals. In the past Castro's efforts to bring Yon Sosa to heel have bean thwarted mainly by the influence the Chinese Communists have been able to exert over the Guatemalan guerrilla leader. In addition to the direct aid provided by Peking to Yon Sosa and his guerrillas in Northeastern Guatomala, there is the fact of Yon Sosa'a Chinese background (Yon Sosa's father was Chinese) which has served to the him emotionally to the Red Chinese.It was the continuing recalcitrant attitude of Yon Sowa which apparently prompted VRG's second mission to Guatemala in October of 1964. VRG was instructed not only to talk to Yon Sosa but also to try to influence Yon Sosa's guerrilla forces directly in line with Castro's objectives. In addition to prepared material which VRG used for locturing the guerrillas he brought with him special propaganda ilma for indoctrination purposes.In late October 1964 the Guatemalan authorities captured a number of tape recordings from Yon Sosa's guerrillas following a guerrilla attack on a government
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-5-garrison. Included in these tapes was one made by VRG for delivery to the guerrillas during his carly October visit with them. A copy of this tape is attached. The tape consists mainly of an exhortation by VRG for unity (between the *Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo* (PGT) and the 13 November Group) and a plea not to permit ideological arguments to replace action. In this speech VRG reveals himself to be a hard-headed revolutionary activist, not merely an intellectual loftist. His approach to revolution is completely practical, not the -oretical.To cover hie mission as a Castro political action agent to Yon Sosa, VRG later published an "interview" with the latter (in *Siempre* No. 593, 4 November 1964).VRG's involvement in the recent Dominican crisis is the latest example of his work on behalf of Castro. In early January 1964 VRG travelled to Santo Domingo, returning a week later to Mexico. Ostensibly this trip was to report on Dominican Republic affairs for *Siempre*, Actually this was merely a cover for a Communist propaganda assignment. Shortly after VRG left Santo Domingo, thousands of copies of a pro-Caatro brochure, entitled "*glempre visita la Dominicana*" and signed VRG, were distributed among Communists and Communist sympathizers in the Dominican Repablic. A copy of this brochure is attached..During his January 1964 trip VRG contacted both the *Moviraiento Popular Dominicano (MPD)*, a terroristic revolutionary Marxist-Leninist and strong pro-Chicom group, and the 14th of June Movement, the *Agrupacion Politica Catorce de Junio (APCJ)*, a militant, revolutionary pro-Castro group. His contact with the MPD resulted in his furnishing material to the subversive MPD publication, *Libertad*, But his principal contact, ons that developed rapidly into a very active relationship in the period preceding the Dominican crisis, was with Juan B. Majia, leader of the AFCI. These two have maintained close and frequent contact over the past year. During the Dominican crisis VRG served as à relay point for material and instructions from Cuba to the APCJ and also acted as a reporting channel from Mejia to the DGI and the APCJ's Castro-Cuban laadership in Cuba.As in previous operations of this kind, VRG cloaked his relationship with Mejia under a journalistic cover, An "interview" he conducted with Mejia appeared in the 2 May 1965 issue of the Cuban newspaper *Hoy*. A copy of the text of that article is attached.
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In mid-May 1965 a gaffe by Mejia's and VRG's Cuban superiors exposed the Mejia-VRG-Cuba channel publicly. In an article carried by Porto Alegre (Brazil) newspaper *Correio do Povo* on 20 May, datelined New York 19 May by Louis Wisniser, a Radio Havana broadcast of 18 May was reported to have mentioned a declaration by Juan Mojia sent from Santo Domingo to VRG in Mexico, who then sent the declaration to Radio Havana. After citing this channel by which it received the Mejia statement, Radio Havana proceeded to broadcast the following excerpts from the declaration: "Numerous leaders of the 14 June Party have disappeared but I (Mejia) know that they are now in the mountains leading guerrillas. The 14 June Party has control of the situation in Santo Domingo." The *Correio do Povo* noted editorially that the Radio Havana broadcast seems to negate the Castro effort to deny that the 14th June Movement in the Dominican Republic is tied to him. The article concludes by noting that Mejia was one of the 58 Communists listed by the Americans, and that this confession by Havana pats new light on the question of American intervention in the Dominican Republic. Not noted in the article is the fact that VIRG's role as an intermediary between Mojla and Castro is clanrly exposed by the Radio Havana broadcast. A copy of the *Corrado do Povo* article is attached.When the Dominican rebellion erupted VRG began to agitate with the *Sigmpre* staff for outright and total support to the pro-Castro forces in the rabel camp. These offorts began to bear fruit when VRG was allowed to personally brief and dispatch a *Siempre* correspondant photographer team to the Dominican Republic in early May 1965 to report on the crisis. The correspondent waa Luis Suarez Lopoz; the photographer was Lais Rodrigo Moya Morano. The resulting articles in *Siempre* produced by this VRG-Suarez-dloya team ware violently anti-US and pro-Castro Communist in their interpretation of the crisis so much so that they apparently touched off a bitter dispute between VRG and Jose Pagan Mergo, *Siempre* director, who prefers to stick to the traditional *Siempre* role of a pseudo-independant outlet for a variety of leftist causes. VRG's efforts to reorient *Siempre* along more militant pro-Communist lines has long been known in journalistic circles in Mexico and the Suarez-Moya incident appeara to have precipitated an open fight between the two. VRC is apparently aiming for a showdown with Pages Liergo over this fague, since several *Siempre* writers are known to la ve been individually approached by VRC over the past woeks to enlist their support against the present *Siempre* editorial policy, which VRG regards as too "opportunistic.'
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INDEX: ☐ YES ☐ NOCLASSIFY TO FILE NO.N-REF TO FILE NO.FILE RIDO RET. TO BRANCH ☐DESTROY SIG.CLASSIFIED MESSAGETOTAL COPIES: 3224 SECRETPERSON/UNIT NOTIFIEDFROM:Mexico CITYACTION:WH-8 ☑ KID COPYADVANCE COPY:☐UN... ☐SLOTTED ☐TUDEDINFO:FILE, VR, CA-2, CA/PROP, DO-4, DO/H-3 WH/C-2, CI/CPS, CZ/FC-2, CH/PEGECFI 201937726 Jul 65 IN 19087CIN. CITE MEXI 4243LUSPAWNTEF A MEXI 3322(IN92168) CS COPYB DIP 21422 *1. RICO DESIGNATION CAMPAIGN OUTLINED REF APPEARS STALLED AT MOMENT. FIRST ATTACK ALONG LINES REF A PARA 1-A WAS MADE ON LILISP-E NEWS BROADCAST 26 JUNE (SEE HMMA-26530). SHORTLY AFTER BROADCAST AN OFFICIAL OF MINISTRY OF GUBERNACION CALLED RADIO STATION AND WARNED MANAGEMENT THAT WHOLE CRITICISM OF POLITICAL IDEAS AND VIEWS TOLERABLE PERSONAL ATTACKS ON INDIVIDUALS AS IN RICO BROADCAST WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED.2. AT ABOUT SAME TIME LILISP-E ARTICLE PREPARED REF REF A PARA 1-A HAS REJECTED BY EL UNIVERSAL AS BEING TOO LIBELOUS. POSSIBLY RELATED TO GUBERNACION INTEREST IN LILISP-E RICO BROADCAST, EXCELSIOR ADVISED SALARILE IN 12 JUL LETTER THAT IN FUTURE EXCELSIOR WILL NOT REPLAY LILISP-E ARTICLES THAT INCLUDE PERSONAL ATTACKS ON INDIVIDUALS. IN FOLLOW-UP TALK WITH EXCELSIOR MANAGEMENT LILISP-E ARTICLE ON NONA AND PAOLO FORS INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG SMIGGLING (SEE HMMA-26619) WAS![image of secret stamp]CS COPY
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# CORASTEL PY EXCELSIOR EDITOR JULIO SCHERER GARCIA AS EXAMPLE OFLILISP-E ARTICLE WHICH EXCELSIOR UNABLE ACCEPT.3. IN EFFORT DETOUR ABOVE OBSTRUCTIONS LILISP-E ATTEMPTING   PLACE RICO STORY (PHASE I) IN MERIDA NEWSPAPER VIA LILISP-E   SPECIAL NEWS SERVICE ARTICLE WHICH CAN THEN BE REPLAYED MEXICO   CITY PRESS. MEANTIME, PURSUANT DIR 32482 APPROVAL, STATION IS   ALSO PREPARING MATERIAL BASED REF A FOR PASSAGE TO FORERT   STFOTHER, ROVING EDITOR FOR READERS DIGEST, WHO HAS TOLD COS   THAT HE WOULD WELCOME AND WOULD BE ABLE REPLAY THIS MATERIAL   IN SELECCIONES, READERS DIGEST LA EDITION, WHICH WOULD THEN   PROVIDE PEG FOR REPLAY LOCALLY AND ELSEWHERE IN WH AREA.*IF PAPERS AL FUE PRINT ORIGINAL MAYEECHANCE THLY REPRINT FROIn LilisPE BULLETINSECRETCF: 4243 3822 21422 RICO DENIGRATION REF REF A PARA I-A LILISP-E26 HMMA-26530 COBEPNACION RICO NOT BE LILISP-E PER REF A PARA 1-AEL UNIVERSAL GOPERDACION LIL ISP-ERICO EXCELSIOR FNLAPILE 12 JUL EXCELSIOR NOT REPLAYLILICP-S EXCELSIOR LILISP-E NOHA: PAFLO FONG HMMA-25619 EXCELSIORJULIO SCHERER GARCIA LILISP-E RICO I NERIDA VIA LILISP-EMEXICO CITY DIR 92432 REF A FOBERT STROTHEP COS SELECCIONESLA WH
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SECRETDOCUMENT TRANSFER AND USS REFERENCESUBJECT OF DOCUMENTRI FILE NO.DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATIONDISPATCH OF SOURCE DOC. SYMBOL NO.DATEDATE PROCESSEDDISSEMINATED INDATEGROSS DEFERRED TO THIS FILEDOCUMENT DISPOSITIONTRANSFERRED TOSI FILE NO.PERTINENT INFORMATIONCALAN, VICTOR RICO201-331414SLA K DUB ?019-004-131080 -1627919 JUL 65FBICIT CUBAP2EDITORIAL WRITE FOR THE PUBLICATIONlsint, SLURCE GIORGE AUVACK, ANAJMAL COMMITTEE Mixit UF THE SUCI-Aliss HUKKERS PARTY/SP/R 6512011453FILE THIS FORM IN FILE NO.FILE IN 201
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# CLASSIFIED MESSAGE**(REVISED 4-65)**MAG 103*   ROUTING1. 5. 2. 6. 3. 7. 4. 8. **SECRET**FILE RIDRET TO BRANCHDESTROYBIOC0089INDEXYESNOCLASSIFY TO FILE NO 336-1798REF TO FILE NOFROM: MEXICO CITYACTION: IWRID COPYINFO: VR, FILE, ADDP, CA 2, CA/PEG, CA/PROP, CI/OPS, CI/IC 2, FI, FI/D, FI/INT 7,DO 4, DO/H 3, CA/O 4, CI, RI/AN, WH 18, WH/C 8 INDEXED AND CONTROL COPIESMATCHEDSECRET 092340210 JUL 65 11 5675 02187MICROFILMEDDIR INFO SDOM WAVE PACY LANT CITE MEXIJUL 2 0 19653PINTEL:ContactDOC. MICRO SER.SUPDATA SOURCE LIFIEAT COVERAGE OF VICTOR RICO GALAN.FILED 09/23222REPORT CLASS SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM HMM-9770 MEXICO/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SUBJECT TRAVEL TO MEXICO OF FAMILY OF EMILIO CORDERO MICHEL, DOMINICAN EXILE. DOI 2-3 JULY 1965 PADA MEXICO, MEXICO CITY 7 JULY 1965.SOURCE MEXICAN LEFTIST WELL ACQUAINTED WITH MANY MEMBERS OF THE MEXICAN LEFT. HIS REPORTING HAS PROVEN RELIABLE. HE ACQUIRED THE INFORMATION IN THIS REPORT FROM VICTOR RICO GALAN.IW COMMENT:WH/REG 8WH/1/M 5WH/2/DR/RE 5TDCS-314/09444-65X ROUTINE PRIORITYBASED ON 1994 9776 LIFEATRELEASING I WO:DATE DISTRIBUTED10 JULY 19650546ZLIAISONSECRETREPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.Copy No.29-336474
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# SECRETCENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYIntelligence Information CableCOUNTRY MEXICO/DOMINICAN REPUBLICTDCS-314/09444-65DATE OF 2-3 JULY 1965SUBJECT TRAVEL TO MEXICO OF FAMILY OF EMILIO CORDERO MICHEL, DOMINICAN EXILEINFO.DISTR. 10 JULY 1965PLACE & DATE ACQ. MEXICO, MEXICO CITY (7 JULY 1965)REF IN85676SOURCE FIELD REPORT NO. ΗΜΜ 9776AND APPRAISAL A MEXICAN LEFTIST WELL ACQUAINTED WITH MANY MEMBERS OF THE MEXICAN LEFT. HIS REPORTING HAS PROVEN RELIABLE. HE ACQUIRED THE INFORMATION IN THIS REPORT FROM VICTOR RICO GALAN.1. ON 2 JULY 1965 EMILIO CORDERO MICHEL, DOMINICAN EXILE IN MEXICO CITY, TOLD VICTOR RICO GALAN, MEXICAN COMUNIST JOURNALIST, THAT HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN WERE DUE TO ARRIVE IN MEXICO CITY ON 11 JULY 1965, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE TRAVELING VIA MIAMI, FLORIDA.CORDERO SAID THAT HE HAD HAD TROUBLE GETTING HIS FAMILY TO MEXICO; THE VISAS WHICH HE HAD OBTAINED FOR THEM HAD BEEN CANCELLED BY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT AFTER THE DOMINICAN CRISIS ERUPTED, BUT HE HAD SPOKEN WITH GENERAL LAZARO CARDENAS, LEFTIST FORMER PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, WHO HAD BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN HAVING THEM REVALIDATED.2. CORDERO INFORMED RICO GALAN THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR WORK AND THATThis 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.SECRETSTATE/INR DIA ARMY/ACSI NAVY AIR JCS SECDEF NSA NIC AID USIA OCI ONE OCK ORR OOAD/CI 2 CIA/NMCC FBI I&NS
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SECRETNO FOREIGN DISSEMRID/MISMPO 1-64 (20)IN 08676TDCS-314/09444-65 PAGE 2THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY HE MIGHT WORK WITH THE MEXICAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE "WITH LOPEZ MATEOS". CORDERO ADDED THAT THE DIRECTOR OF EL DIA, MEXICO CITY MARXIST DAILY NEWSPAPER, WAS GOING TO RECOMMEND HIM.3. ON 3 JULY 1965 CORDERO SAID THAT HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN WERE DUE TO ARRIVE IN MEXICO ON 7 JULY, THAT THEY WERE TRAVELING VIA KINGSTON, JAMAICA, BECAUSE THE AMERICANS WOULD NOT GIVE THEM A VISA FOR MIAMI.4. (FIELD COMMENT: CORDERO AND HIS WIFE, JOSEFINA/PEINADO DE CORDERO, ARE BOTH MEMBERS OF THE 14TH OF JUNE MOVEMENT.)5. FIELD DISSEM: STATE ARMY NAVY AIR FBI CINCSO CINCLANT. (ALSO SENT SANTO DOMINGO).END O: MESSAGESECRETNO FOREIGN DISSEM
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# MESSAGE FORMORIG : C.R.HalliwellUNIT : WH/1EXT: 4523DATE: 24 Jun 65TOTAL COPIES: 17SECRETFROM: DIRECTORCONF: WH7 INFO: VR FILE RID COPY WEB, CEIOOS SIG CENTO: MEXICO CITY ROME MILAN CARACAS25 Jun 65 21 230TO:MEXIPBRUMENINFO ROME MILA CARAREF: MEXI 3880 (IN 96425)*NO TRACES SARLER ORENGO. PARIS BUSINESS PHONE DIRECTORYLISTS "AGETECO" AS BINDING MACHINERY COMPANY; APSS: NINERUE DE LA REPUBLIQUE.END OF MESSAGE* Ref LEAZE LIFEAT coverage Rico Galan and Carlos Cocciolo.  Sarler Orengo, frenchman, received cable from Achistieri  possibly Aget Co. authorizing him go Cues.![Desmond FitzGerald]Desmond FitzGerald.Chief, WHD![illegible text]![illegible signature]Kilo Jalay201-W.J. KaufmanC/MM/1
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CLASSIFIED MESSAGE//SECRETSECRET 2221552ACTION23 JUN 65 IN 964251. FOLLOWING FROM LIFEAT COVERAGE VICTOR RICO GALAN AND CARLO COCCIOLI 16 JUNE 1965:A. RICO TO COCCIOLI. LATTER STATED THAT ORENGO (PHONETIC-PRESUMABLY SARLER ORENGO OF REF) RECEIVED TELEGRAM FROM ACHIETIERI (POSSIBLY AGET CO.) YESTERDAY AUTHORIZING AND PRESSURING HIM TO GO TO CUBA TO "PRESENT THIS MATTER... IN THIS QUESTION IN WHICH YOU ARE HELPING US, I WOULD LIKE YOU (RICO) TO GET MAXIMUM MORAL BENEFIT.ORENGO NEEDS A VISA; HE IS APOLITICAL, ON NEITHER SIDE. HE WILL NEED A VISA TO GO TO TALK TO WHOMEVER YOU SAY". COCCIOLI WOULD RECOMMEND THAT ORENGO TALK TO ALEJO CARPENTIER BUT "THIS IS SIMPLY A POLITICAL QUESTION". RICO SAYS HE TOOK UP THIS MATTER AND "THEY TOLD ME THAT IN CASE THIS MAN INSISTS IN THIS MATTER I SHOULD PUT HIM IN CONTACT WITH THE AMBASSADORO. HE IS STAYING AT HOTEL MARIA CRISTINA.COCCIOLI SAYS HE IS A VERY GOOD FRIEND, HAS BEEN ONE FOR MANY YEARS. COCCIOLI WANTS TO GIVE HIM (ORENGO) PRECISE INSTRUCTIONS, AS RICO SHOULD INDICATE, ALSO THAT THE CASA SCHET (PHONETIC-POSSIBLY AGET) WOULD BE INTERESTED FOR YOU TO MAKE THE BOOK". RICO SAYSRico Galan 201.201-336474