° CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This material contains inforniation affecting the Notional Defense of the Catted Sutie within the meaning of the Buptanage tome Tete 16. USO. Seca 793 and TM, the transmission of rereiation of which [% Ghy manner to 6a unauthorined person te probistimt ay tere. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM “COunty Cuba RPO NO “CSCILITS/O0SSS68- ‘ ‘SUBIECT Alfredo MIRABAL Diaz: DATE OF 1964 INFO. ? . : PiACE &@ Washington, D. . DATE ACQ. Bron: c. FIELD REPORT NO, ‘ - THIS 18 UNEVALUATED {tNFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ant DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATITE. : SOURCE: 4 former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964.. ro “4 Headquarters Comments ‘ . i t The following report is one of a series containing . : personality information provided by the source and . includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency. It is requested that the addressees take no action on any . “of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports : without first checking with this Agency. : i Alfredo MIRABAL Diaz, pseudonym “Federico,” is the . ehief Cuban Intelligence officer in Mexico City as of i ‘ January 1964. Although Manuel VEGA is replacing MIRHBOL ; as chief, MIRABAL possibly will continue in Mexico. 2,3,4,5.6,7,8 Headquarters Comments 1. In September 1947, a usually reliable source reported that Alfredo MIRABAL, director of the Sugar Workers’ Union of Centval Stewart and Colonies and delegate of Central to official and management organizations, was ° active in the Partido Socialista Popular (Cuban Communist Party ~ PSP} in the Province of Camaguey. 2. %Inm the 12 April 1953, issue of the publication Hoy an interview with Alfredo MIRABAL Diaz, financial — oo : secretary of the Sherwin Williams Workers’ Union, was printed with reference to the workxers' demands. - 5 8 4 4 3 SECRET —==— ; ‘NO FOREIGN DISSEM SEES) [_stare | bra [army [wavy Tata [xsa | AKXXK__ | oce FBI 2? “__,_REP CINCLANT CINCSO # TENS TTEX-1636 {NO PROJECT ( a07G}'1) i_-CSCI-316, GUéS3-6 4 rorss* WH/SA 7 (1), WEL (2), CI 4, R1D1. | ° | WAR:TD:
Se nt whee nes tm Oe enestme Bo dOs HE +t “Pmemctite, Smale anode came Gere 4. shee * - SECRET -NO FOREIGN DISSE (& asually reliable source in a report dated 29 June 1955, “stated that in September 1955, it was called tothe | A r (Wilitary attention of the Service de Inteligencia Milita Intelligence Service - SIM) that two brothers, Alfredo — MIRABAL Diaz and Rafael. MIRABAL Diaz,.eiployed by the. tee Tt . Sherwin Williams Company of Cuba, had Marxist ideas. . An ifivestigation revealed that in August 1946, when Alfrede MIRABAL was dixector of ‘the Sindicato de Trabajadores ‘Azucareros del. Central Stewart y sus Colonias (Union of Sugar’ Workers of Central Stewart), he was arrested on a charge of causing an illicit strike at the Central. On. the day of his arrest he was awarded: a grize by. the PSP Jee for having distinguished himself in ‘the work ane. 0a 1 October 1955, a SIM agent interviewed Alfredo UIRABAL. .. and he (Alfedé) admitted to having been affiliated «itt. ° the PSP but denied being a Communist; He said that he belonged to the PSP merelyas a laborer, believing that workers. should belong to that Party. The investigation also disclosed that Alfredo MIRABAL was the “Delegate Official and Management. Organizations" (sic) of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Fabrica de Pinturas Sherwin Williams (Union of Sherwin Williams Workers). He was described as white, divorced, a native of Habana, the son of Rogelio and Sofia, and a resident of Calle E, Number 302, Reparto Satista. Another office of this Agency, in a report dated 28 May 1962, stated that an untested source said that one (fnu) MIRABAL was the chief of G-2 in Caibarien, We was born in 1932, jis five feet five inches tall, and weighs 160 pounds. In September 1963, it was reported that Alfredo MIRABAL Diaz, born in 1923, arrived in Mexico as the Cuban Consul oa 2 September 1963. Reportedly, he did not know his job as Consul and was held-.in contempt by his staff for his incompetence. . In October 1963, it was reported that the aunt of Alfredo MIRABAL Diaz stated that Alfredo MIRABAL had been appointed to the Cuban Consulate in Mexico. He was reportedly an old-line Communist under BATISTA and he was probably trained in Moscow. A Cuban businessman in Mexico City with good contacts in the Cuban Embassy and who has reported reliable information for about two years stated in a report dated 17 February 1964, that on 23 January 1964 Alfredo M. MIRABAL Diaz, Consular Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, sent the following eable to the Administration Section of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations: NO FOREIGN DISSEN SECRET oa at
14-00000 re SECRET. NO FORBIGN DISSEM -3- “Ie is urgentiy necessary that you send thie Consulate’ s @llotment for the months of December and January. It: piers possible to operate without money. I consider. it abso: elg-. |: a itiperative ‘to increase the allotment beginning in January. Today I am pouching a projected estimate for. this’ year. I urge your rapid attention.” “8. A Cuban with contacts dimong Cuban ‘diptonate atated : Ye : dated 12 June 1964, that Alfredo MIRABAL Diaz, in charge of the SO Cuban Consulate in "Mexico City, was born about. 1929, hag been : + te : married twice, and has a very poor education... All his: life he oo * ‘ has been a Communist and everyone in hig family {fs Communist. He belongs to the syndicate of the tin factory in Luyano,, ‘Habana, - where both he and his brothers worked: for. years. He: also worked at’the “Ceiba del Agua. Iastitute” for sose time... SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM