<8 mame 8 maces mm cee sn Bee yh Me CFG athe see ONES oe Bie Henan tO ete wets ot nine tt te ete mechs Ay 6 ene on ste > eaten Papa alee re ww tae aw og : SECRET . ; 16 Octoder 1563 MEMORANDIM FOR THE RECORD; . =e we come am FRON 8 Lawrence F, Barker ; . SUBJECT 3 Meeting with LITAMIL-9, 15 October 1963 ) 1. Le9 was picked up in Felanco at 2000 hours and driven, te Bis home where a meeting was held wmtil 0020 hours (16 Cet) at.which time ‘ L-? was dropped off in Colonia Cuauhtemoc. He identified 90 photes from among several hundred taken frqa the LISRCDE Base House; he was unable to identify any from the LIENGRACE coverage of the ANKNOB-reported Safe House at 157 Pachuca. . 2, L-9 reported on the followings On 8 October LaF and, Paul <PARICIO Nogales had a few drinks and dinner with Rauwi®'\cr:3 Franco, Cuban delegate to the Assembly of the internation Union of Architects held in Mexico City the previous week, BMACTAS said that the Greek delevate to the recent Architect's Congress in Havana had been identified as a KUBARK agent. He = did not give this man's name, eh - oe made -- «hich were disrupt! ive, but the Cubans and their allies rat it would be best not to risk a fight with CORONA, The Mexican 2 Ranon Orns vave the Castro-Cubans a lot of trouble seth in Mavana and it was hopei that some way micht bo found to take the Vice Presidency away from him, because of the proposals he ‘org The LJ the Bhedishran who presides as president of the UIA (International Union of Architects} was, un the other hand, very docile end easy to get alony with -- the Cubans liked him, ‘shen he came back ae, from Cuba the Mexican authorities at Merida "gave hin the works," dumped the contents of his leocrare ont meeremoniously and searched 4% carefully, confiscatin; iro hin a numcer of packages which Afr . orly contained materials reiatine to the conrress, The Cuban delegates, such as °° CIAS, hin elf, rot the sane treatment and lost a nunber of thinss they were bringing to ‘.exico, * During the Havana ecnrress, a number of lazel identification buttons (allowinz holi-rs to -nter the sessions) disappeared end it was hastily assured that an American present, an cditor of the Mapazine Architectural Secord had, in censpiracy with an English NEWIPAPCTTANy Stciemn then, These two perzeon3 were, _accorlingly, hald unier arrest »t the Riviera Hotel one morning fron 2 asm. to 6 ayn, NiCLAs had to intervens to secure their release, The Ancrican apccared "hurt" by the aécuzation and arrest and kept askinc for. sanecne to send hiri a drink, (L«9 said: If he was a KUSARK arent, he did a good job while under arrest, judgin fro MACTIAS!® account SECRET | P-0074q . ~] . , - ‘ > ined 05> Re * ta i7 1 ee a tums
14-00000 Bee See ey ‘Berd sesctuniveci a tanie' to ‘Gorria; a : piysteten. who’ was hets, for : wee : ; Redieal conferénce (having returnea-to Havaiia on ~ a) Octobee) . Said that. rurors‘tere rife in ‘Havana that countere u ee ee planned to both Havana fron the’ ale String “one Of. the “pesgions_of_the- architectiral congress. Anti Alte UO uridts | ‘wire ready and carte was“taken not to annowncé thea Set re:-Fidel CASTRO would address the. group lest he be ‘the “target: for boabing. " (Rotes tg BiNTREZ Corrig was here with another physician for several days = L-9 saw quite a bit of RAMIHEZ and had hin take sone medicine to L-9'3 father on his return, He assesses RAMIREZ as a "very valuable element, one you would do well te try to win over to our cause," Le9 did not know the name of . the other nedico but identified his picture in the LICRODE take, €e A short tine ago, Vice Consul Ovilio%sain of the Consulate in 2 g 620 Veracruz told Le? that he would like to close down the Mexleane iA ff] — Cuban Cultural Institute in that tom «- it is not working ozt well, people are not attcnding meetings. SAMA feels that the 800 plus pesos per month that this operation costs can be spent in better ae « r . Wayse . “+? t ‘ PTS tomas sr-~-aambad om wn il ZOD rte TT mo, d, .RUIZ of the Corrercial Office told L-9 that sémecone had given . him 30 dollars in.Cuba to biy a pistol here in Mexico and that - he had mansced to find one for 300 pesos, (LIENVOY recently revealed that RUIZ was buying a Spanish Llana pistol). j ®» _ Cubana Capta tain baapsy Saw Ln9, VOOR, and*20JA3_of- Cubana at “the a: airport on Ly October «= Le9 ane VEGA had. gone out together ‘ to see RAMIREZ Corria off ~= and SAMDEY pointed to tha The18 on the ficld, saying that for several reasons they had not yet been able to cet permissicn to use this plane (which brought the ; Soviet cosmonauts to Mexice) to carry medicines and other relief supplies as cargo on its return to Cuba, ARO Ii5 later showed uw about 6 p.m, at the Soviet Pabassy Gshere | a reception was in progress) to sneak to Anbascador E FCRUANDES Armas about this same matter -- 1-9 witnessed the encounter. (LIENVOY covers this : . subject). f, At the Sovinh reception mentioned above, which was for the purpose of introducinz Soviet dole-rates to the International erenauticeal Conference then in session, L-9 spoite with (fu) ee 2 7 SICERO of the Foreien Office -- L-9 says that CICERO is pro= : & ; ooviet, antieinerican, He overheard a younc Mexican official Charl {lyn - of the Mexican lero Club asking CICS if it was true that the é - bier Israeli dele-ate to the Aeronautical Conference was coins to be eee ¢ expelled fran Nexico -= didn't hear the answer to this, The - expilsion was reportedly in connection with a "probl ana foe lyjew rnicratorie,® ap8tF! (ir sat gs The twoedeor blue Suick sedan used by the Coun rercial Office is ° gcins to be sald w- according to Vera, af ; he “When Le? was seaing 3 RAMIREZ Corria off a charactedt ews only ; as "Biro? showed uw. This ran lives withMicly and? SECRET ene ene ewer oe oane 5
14-00000 So. To (about 2) ae Looe . in Moxice ‘several /months. He is @ Cuban and was closely re connected with "Che" GUEV‘PA: in some official capacity, He. al ; does not plan to‘eturn'*o Cuba; butts. sti22- in’ touch with ae -". | "Che" «. received.a letter from hin 2 weeks ago. As RAMIREZ Ng and his doctor. companion prepared to Leave, *"Birut said, "My 4 “Brother | dis-ehiel of all thece- nedicos in Cuba." *Biru® aaa _ 8 - “Aight tivlatte about 35 yéers old, Coty SOLORZANO is now trying . ‘48 gét hina‘ job in Mexteo City. He usually eats lunch with = =e : ao. BIC. At the airport he said he couldn't understand why : Tt oo “s+ AZCUS sad yA ing ‘te be recalled to Cuba =~ said that he doesa’t en ” . know how AZCUS.will manaze to survive what with ration cards : and other such ‘inconveniences. PRIORITY TASK: _ IDENTIFY THIS MAN "BIRUF de _Moonot 12 Min, a senator fron 3ritish Gaiana, left for Havana on 1h Octobor'-- hi is very friendly with L-9, spoke with him ; before mavincg an ecdrlier trip to the Island which had te de with procurenent of petroleun products from Cuba, He told Le? that the Mexican Consul at Trinidad had civen hima 6-—months multiple mtry visa. but that this was taken away from hin at the Mexico City airport. #e wondered wnether AZCUE might help — him cet it back, AZCUE told hin to relax, that he could get ' ewan itl decetisumnemether fron the Mexican officials In-Havanag -~ og ee, ee KHAN left a postcard with Le9 te mail to his wife, L-9 showed ' it to Barker, Copye ‘ “Helle Moon & Kids Mrs, Maimun N, KHAN 60 Anira Street Mexico even though Queanstown beautiful but for me Gcorgetown its very cold, I am now leaving for Havana, British Guiana Gare yourself * ids. , I am wall, Neoner ’ at aceod de L-9 says that tL cos Tea and*LICHY are involved in a big love affair == LLAGSSTZXA is really loveestruck and it is \ quite obvious to everyone in the Fmbassy that the two are , involved =~ they chat on the interephone quite often, (LIEN= VOY alerted ua to this love affair recently) According te Le9 LLAGOSTEU is vulnerable because he has u wife and child in Guba. ke Other insignificant itens were reported on but not worthy of inclusion here, 3e A long conversation was held about clandestine orerations in general, motivation, security, cormunicatios, ete, As has bem discovered in, the pasty © L-9 periddically requires an opportimity to explain why he is working for us and this must te followed up by renewed assurances on our part that we greatly appreciate his work and the hifh principles which notivate hin, In this ine atance, confortably ensconced in B's hone with a glass of scotch. dn his hand, SECRET
14-00000 pote tem nee a oeqocmbs amegene— = ' far and wide -= from antique autcobiies to classical music == except that SECRET LS sas in a teliativn moad and no effort was made to shorten the session, After he had perforned his catharsis ue seemed te fo7cl xuch better about things in general althourh on the way hore he remarked that he hoped the ‘Cuban promblen.could be solved within a couple of years so ke could get out of this work. It is clear that he fecls strong pressure and, not being a daring individual, he i9 looking forward to the day when he can stop living a-double life, Nothing new cane of this donvercation which ranged 4% apparently did L-9 some good and gave the C/O a chance to insert a hest. of ‘tradecraft pointers desiened to sharpen up the agent's security and cenvince hin that (1) his security and well-being is our primary éoncern, and (2) if we practice good security in the operation he need have no fears of being compromised, (NB: A tour as an instructor at ISOLATION is the best besiS training imaginable for this sort of situation - really pays off), . kL, A start was made on sketching the physical plant of the Embassy but Le9 was quite tired at this point and this work was left for the next meeting. L-9 looked over our file material on the Embassy building and explained that so many changes had been made in the last year that nost of what we now have is cawlately out of datc, The next meeting will take up the Embassy premises as the first order of business, S. Next meeting: Opens . SECRET