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16. At the age of 15 Subject left home to join the Mexican Kavy, Subject has commented to Rowton that his childhood was not particularly happy and that his mother and father separated, apparently when he was in his teens. It appears likely that Subject left home as a result of family dissension. Subject states that his desire to travel and see the world wasvery strong at the time he joined the navy.17. Inasmuch as the legal are for enlistment was 18, Subject had to have his birth certificate altered to show that he had been born in 1927 rather than 1930. As a consecuence all of Subject's official documents now show his birth-date ns 1227, including his passport.18. Subject served a three-year hitch in the navy and visited nearly all the ports of Mexico and many of Central America. Subject's speciality anperrs to have been in the quartermaster breach, since he learned the rudiments of navigation and shin-t-aoling. Sen he left the nval service, Subject entered the University of Fexico and took courses in Archaeolo and anthropole for the next two years. Subject simultaneously developed a strong interest in painting and sculpture and over the next five or so xx years, studied under such masters as Rivera ani Siquieros.19. Subject was married in 1950 at the ace of twenty years to a young Mexican woman from Leon, GTC..and durist the next ten years had a at least four children by her. He divorced cis wife in about 1960, just prior to his departure for Cuba, he had not been on good terms with hor for solo e to the women. From about 105":100    ject worked in the Mexican Government Social Service among the Indians in the southern states of Mexico. Suspect attributes some of the tension that arose between him and his wife to this employment venture. He commented to Rowton that his first wife wanted to live a quiet normal life in Mexico City and was unwilling to share with him the hardships of social work in remote areas of tropical Mexico. During this perioi Subject gradually de- veloped his own style in painting and began to establish close contacts with Mexican art circles.20. Subject went to Cuba in about 1900 "to join the revolution",ap- parently as a result of his increasingly leftist political sympathies. He dià a relatively large amount of rainting ani mural work during his four- ycar residence in Cuba, while at the same time working in the Ministry of Labor and Education. In about 1961 he marrieš a Cuban woman Chinese oririn from Santiago de Cuba and the following year a (girl) child was born to them in davana. Subject has told Rowton that he has had very tittle contact with his first wife since his divorce and pays no alimony. He sided that his family, however, has continued to take an interest in his first wife and the children of his first marriage and has helped to support them financially. During his stay in Cute, Subject developed close friendship with many Cuban revolutionaries, particularly Arnol Rodriques, whose wire worked with Subject in the Ministry of Mucation at the time when Arnol Rodriquez was serving as Minister of jaber.21. Subject returned to Mexico City in 1964 with his new wife and child (whom he had naturalized es a Mexican citizen). By this time Subject had become a professional artist but supplemented the rather modest incone he acquired from the sale of his painting by teaching art privately and in Mexican public schoois. His monthly incore during 1965 and early 1966 did not exceed. 3,000 pesos.WallitontonWallace B RowtenMEXI 604500