(1os-10175-10107] 15 October 1962 WENORANOUM FOR: Chief, CI/OA ' SUBJECT : Viola June COBB, C-83492 Reference: Request for Information and Review, 8 October 1962 1. As requested in the referenca, attached Rnmcmdom Sa a won eer ma ae wg ww weew te aran a ke dy hd hh ee bata WE Viola Juse COB3, (Please return this file to WH/3/Mexico for Subject's 201}. 2. Staff D collateral information, rc uted through CI/OA on 9 October 1962, provided no derogatory infurmation that is not included in Hiss COBB'S 201 file: expulsion from Guatemala in Novenber 1961 after proof was obtained by the Governsent of Cuateuala “that she was a Castro &EGHE Bivse mission in Guateuaia was to distribute pro-Castro and Comunist proraganda asong university etudents"; translator of a boos written by forzer Guatemalan Presicent Juan Jose AREVALO, “The Fable of the Shark and the Sardines," which asgeaile . & oe BOCet ieeat &iG@ business in the United States. 3. Below is a summary of information fron Subject’s 201 pertinent to the reference, with attachments which are to be returned to WH/3/Mexico for inclusion in Scbject's 201. Since Wexico City Station has consistently provided information eoncerning Subject and her relation to Station operations and agents, no further field traces ; will be requested unless requested by your office. a. VWiola June COBB, born in Ponca J : t H or Any . . | Uh! ind . | aratetosae me A ete tet cae enetle tnd NT Bees tt tea ay Goebel tet + aoe se ca eee cD Oe mene me tt a
14-00000 SECRET j Page 2 City, Oklahona, on 24 August 1927, left home for Mexico City in 1947-43 after her father remarried. She hse since lived in Ecuador, Cusa, and Mexico, and hag been involved with the men and politics of a munber of Latin Countries. | Durirg these years she has ceveloped a host of friends nod accuaintacces, both U.S. and Latin, that includes political leaders, journalists, ciplomats, and nea and women from a number of professions, sone of - om money Wake wae are rats oF pene es coe ww ee * Ber taste in friends is omnivorous and she enbraces (soretimes literally) and has access to extreristsa fron both right anu left political groups asc has variously been accepted and distrustea by both pro~ . and anti-U.5. interest groups. (See List of Associates, para. 3,d,1, below). First contacted by a KVSARK Staff Auployee in Habana in 1953 chen she was esployed bY the goverumeit of Ficei Casters, she reported on Coban personnel and activities until ehe left Cuba and for some tine afterward. She was picked up by Mexico Station in Deceaber 1951 when she had lost her access to Cuban targets aaa has bess reporting on the activities and thinking of warious Latin pro-Communist revolutiozaries including(LIXLUCH?l a Communist Party - penetration who ia her current lover. b. She has intentionally or unintentionally indicated her employment with the 0.8. Government to s nexber of intimates and ecquaintances. Persons suspecting her acsociation with U.3. intelligence include the following: Horacio GODOY, Argentine law professor; SECEE ne mat Ne te nat Abe tr eee Re oh ee eo ete ork ae tee eect feb nee a rere oa ae ery Ae RA ae ore Str OND Seah Ae es
ar Tr em one . cA WH/3/Mexics Page 3. Bayless HASHING, Yale University: law professor: Hichael Sidseey COLIN, U.8. citizen who was associated with tillies Morgan in Habana; Bosalbo ROCA, close friend in New York who is a citizen of the Dosinicar Republic; ang Diane ALEXANDRIA, also a friend in Hew York City on resident visa. s, Ys Weweh 1962 she was called before the Senate Subcommittee on snteruas Security and questicned on Cuban associations and activities. To cur knowlecce, she did not divulge any contact with EUEASE. As a reagult of this hearing, sce was contacted by Drew Pesrgon’s assistant, dack Ancerson, and the interview resulted in an article in Parade, the fashington Post, 12 August 150z. a Attached to this memorandus are the following documents from Subject'’a 261 (to be returned to WH/3/fexico): 1. List of Associates of Viola June CosB. (1969) 2. Wesorandum to WH/3/Mexico, from WH/4/CI (on Subject) 3. Memorandum for the Record (2 April 1962). Contact report with Subject concerning Senate Subcommittee hearing. 4. Article on Subject from Parade: "Meet June Cobb.” ar cays nars Attachments: As stated above \ Distriputions saressee, w/atts 1 w/o atts ac/z5940 (15 Gct 62) “e o3 vivid | sierdetone ign mob ntes Rt ae te et mete nope oP Mf tt hen oo wach dbh ahs thinet vention ton wnhen - = whip rsh innit ° 2 a 2 Bai Sa pahca RAN. anaed fd, olen Af decane tld Moca, ugh O68 ote