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KRYPTON: ☐ YES ☐ NO
SOURCE, OPERATIONAL DATA, AND COMMENTS:
SUBJECT: Jose Xavier CORTES Hernandez
COMMENTS: Father Manuel PEREZ Alonso, Jesuit and contact of COS, was the
Cource of field comment no. 2. According to Father PEREZ Alonso,
CORTES was never a priest but had been a seminarian. Father
PEREZ Alonso has been conferring with Archbishop Miguel Dario
Miranda, Primate of Mexico, regarding CORTES Hernandez and possible
acti
ions against him.
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A. Completely reliable. D. Usualty reliable. C: Fairty reliable. D: Not usually reliable.
somate of deubtful honesty or loyalty, sogardines of their competence). F. Reliability cannot be judged ✨{Applied to unfected or insufficiently
tested correcal
APPRAISAL OF CONTENT:
falsa. 6. Cannot be judged.
1: Confirmed by other Independent and reliable sources.
Documentary Based on original document.
2: Probably true.
3: Possibly true. 4. Doubtful. 5: Probably
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SUBJECT Jose Xavier CORTES Hernandez
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PLACE & Mexico, Mexico City (8 December 1960)
DATE ACQ.
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. NOTE FOREGOING EXPLANATION.
SOURCE. Person with good connections in the Cuban Embassy (3). Appraisal of Content:
4. On
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MEXICO
December 1960 Jose Xavier CORTES Hernandez who represents himself as a
priest told Jose Antonio PORTUONDO Valdor, Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, that
he had information that "the thing they were working on" had gotten underway
and had produced a tremendous reaction in Cuba.2 He said that a friend, who
is Roman Catholic but very liberal, had returned from a visit to Cuba, where
he said the Knights of Columbus were pretty well entrenched. For this reason,
CORTES said he felt it would be necessary to "take the bull by the horns" and
begin things or the Knights of Columbus would gain the advantage.
•
PORTUONDO said that the bombing of the church of Father BOZA in Cuba had
definitely been an act of "auto-agression" and was clumsily done. He said a
red flag with hammer and sickle was found in the debris. PORTUONDO told CORTES
that Carlos OLIVARES, Under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, had not gaid any-
thing, but, since he, PORTUONDO, was going to Cuba at the end of December, he
believed that OLIVARES would wait until his visit: 3
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CORTES said that he would like to go to Cuba and see for himself how. things
were going.
Field Comments
1. According to an untested bource in the Roman Catholic Church, CORTES.
Hernandez was never & priest. It was previously reported that Atisbos,
Mexico City newspaper, had reported that CORTES was a Catholic priest and
a member of the Jesuit order until 1950 when he left the order because of
his "rebellious and anarchic spirit".
2.
It is believed that CORTES Hernandez, who belongs to a schismatic Catholic.
church, called the Mexican Apostolic Catholic Church, is interested in
establishing a schismatic church in Cuba.
3. Source Comment. PORTUONDO's remark about OLIVARES came after he and CORTES
had been discussing German Lence, Castrista priest who has been stopped by
episcopal sanction from his ministry in Oriente province.
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DATE OF December 1960
INFO.
PLACE & Mexico, Mexico City. (8 December 1960)
DATE ACQ.
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. · APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE. NOTE FOREGOING EXPLANATION.
SOURCE: Person with good connections in the Cuban Embassy (B). Appraisal of Content: 2.
MEXICO
1. On 8 December 1960 Jose Xavier Cornes (Hernandez) who represents himself as a
priest told Jose Antonio PORTUONDO Valdor, An Ambassador to Mexico, that
'
he had information that "the thing they were working on" had gotten underway
and had produced a tremendous reaction in Cuba.2 He said that a friend, who
is Roman Catholic but very liberal, had returned from a visit to Cuba, where
he said the Knights of Columbus were pretty well entrenched. For this reason,
CORTES said he felt it would be necessary to "take the bull by the horns" and
begin things or the Knights of Columbus would gain the advantage.
2. PORTUONDO said that the bombing of the church of Father BOZA in Cuba had
definitely been an act of "auto-agression" and was clumsily done. He said a
red flag with hammer and sickle was found in the debris. PORTUONDO told CORTES
that Carlos OLIVARES, Under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, had not said any-
thing, but, since he, PORTUONDO, was going to Cuba at the end of December, he
believed that OLIVARES would wait until his visit. 3
3.
CORTES said that he would like to go to Cuba and see for himself how things
were going.
Field Comments
1.
2.
3.
According to an untested source in the Roman Catholic Church, CORTES.
Hernandez was never a priest. It was previously reported that Atisbos,
Mexico City newspaper, had reported that CORTES was a Catholic priest and
a member of the Jesuit order until 1950 when he loft the order because of
his "rebellious and anarchic spirit".
It is believed that CORTES Hernandez, who belongs to a schismatic Catholic.
church, called the Mexican Apostolic Catholic Church, is interested in
establishing a schismatic church in Cuba. ♥
Source Comment. PORTUONDO's remark about OLIVARES came after he and CORTES
had been discussing German Lence, Castrista priest who has been stopped by
episcopal sanction from his ministry in Oriente province.
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