74-90000 va niente at 80 tm eh pene eee cent ene erie scence a Hann ett waren A eee eetnnmatmme esti naga tht ttl own ont, in pean nescatnet ygnts BANA PEAT Whi a tan dae 2 % ° - 7“ SE SECRET #. Tm . : io. Le? recentiv eneeasted that Febaeew etaff meatines he held at nipht so that afterwards everyone could cet torether for .dinner, RUIZ of the comercial office took exception to this .o= said that the result would be just like the Rotary Club. Ambassador HERNANDEZ Armas supported L-9's proposal but did not press for atiproval, and the decision was made to continue holding. the meetinss on Saturday mornings. Later on the Ambs : told L-9, “well, I stpported you, anyway." JorQuin Ucenwavoez Aemas jo The Ambassador-Said at a recent staff meeting that he was taken to task by a Mexican senator who asked him why Cuba refused to sign the atam test ban pact. ARMAS ( he, like ROA, 1s know by his matranynic) tried to explain that Cuba could never sign the agreazent as lons as she is the subject of American agression, ARMAS said that Embassy staff people should be prepared to answer “such questions and mentioned uiat-a request was being sent to Havana to allow the expenditure of sufficient funds to print up 10,000 copies of Fidel CISTRO's speech of 28 September to be distributed locally -- this speech aprarently conveys the present "line" on tha test ban issue, ade ke Foreign Minister ROA recently mentioned in a note to ARMAS that he is clad to hear that L-9 is painting arain, L-9 was, in turn, plicased to hear that the Yereipr Minister takes a personal interest ; in hin, Le} has recently done four paintings ~~ allfeqile figure _ . « . "Tate teeellnnmeammmeereeets. (1) 3B asked hin IT he nicnt nob do something revolutionary from time to tine -~ such as a militia girl standing guard with a sub-machinegun, L-9 says he has thought of this but doesn't feel inspired, . hee FROTE recently visited the Embassy and said that his dauchter Trina, the exv-vife of Rivire VALDEZ, will be coming to MNexice soon on a “special mission," He also said that his nephew, a Chilean, (no nane mentioned) recently arrived here proceeding fran the USA. L«9 got a nice thank-you letter fron Fereades®LTCHUGA -- sister of former Ambassador LICAUGA -- thankins L-9 for havine sent her a : bottle of perfune. [.-9 was pleesed to get this cvidence of confidence since, a3 he says, if LECHUGA were the least bit suspicious of hin Nereedes would not” correspondend with L=9, ° Me L=9 believes he heard the man with the thin mustache referrad to as Priniese This is the rin who sheased un at about the same tine the MiidentiNied "Licht skinned mulatto" (and pessible code clerk) disarocared fron the scene, Le? identified his phote at the last meeting. (A Paul FISEY2A has bean showing up increasingly on LINOY traffic -» we had considered this to te Haulito the messenger boy.) Le9 will try to find out more about FERETRAi and will look into the ~ jast name of Raulito, . Oe Res iry" =~ see last C2 we Le9 had no mere com this man except to resort that he thinks Siru ms found a job and that Coty SOLORZAND helped hin to get it, L-9 says that Birn was sent to Mexico by "Che" GLEVARAs SECRET
14-00000 +O ORDERED EEE emi Tt a So ne ent ac - See Ley ee pe Regarding. gara*z'y"tND*7, Cata, now in Caracas, L-9 recently learned that sonctime in the past when Sara was ona Cubana plane at Noxico City, preparin; to depart for Havana, she made =, a few anti-Revolutionary remarks, These were reported te ‘ — ~Orfila, whe reported thar to Teresa PROENZA, who reported to _ __Remon SINOSAS (at the tine Charge et the Embassy), who fired off a cable to NINREX Havana, ‘ham Sara got to Havana she was - accused of “intricue.” Teresa PHOENZA recently teld L-9 about ~- this. (REPORT 70 CARICAS STATION). . ‘ Ge A Cuban functionary en his way to Uruguay from Havana had some trouble with Mexican officials at the Central Airport -~ @ . ° Cdte. VENTURA took some papers away from him when he arrived 2h October and as a result the Cuban was forced to cancel his — onmvard reservations on Varig for the night of 25 October «= said he could -not comlete his mission without his papers. (Reported thia to CABOT 26 Oct in case LIFIRES might be able to get hold of the « papers in question), prateet sone mactee? re Le9 says that Dra, Aico, her daughter Berta, and Pererrina_. ALONSO all live together near the Enbassy. (This may be in 157 Pachuca where the AMKNO3-1 safe site was located) Le9 will ask Dra. MACHADO to have dinner with hin at his apartmmt -=- making sure she is there well after nightfall so that he will be obliged \ a. -wemetO see her safely hare and, in the progess, find-out where she 7 ' lives. eee 3. As usual L-9 needed a bit of bolstering. He said that he feels intense pressure at staff gathorings when everyone locks at everyone else present and wonders "who is the Judas in this proup." L-9 stated that he would much rather do some other kind of work and would rather sell tomatcss on tho street than do what he is doing now. The thing that really keeps him going, aside from his expressed regard for KUBARK and his ofterepeated affinity for the Anrlo-Saxon, is his sincere disgust with the C’STRO regime, He again told the story ( B hes heard it a half-dozen tires and Shryock prohably heard it often before that) of his father's having built up a biy businesa by unstinting hard work -= of having brought his fanily up froa nothing to a position of honest resocctability -- only to be classified as a “bandido" ani “explotador"™ by a bunch of revolutiomary bung with beards, It is the case officer's belief that if L-9 did not haves a release through painting he would break off from thn Embassy and, naturally, from KUBARKe It is furthermore believed that if we were to ask L-9 to submit to an LCFLUTTER examination as Headgmrters has reeently succested, L-9 would irmediately break contact with us ag no matter hey diploratically the build-up might be phrased he would take 1t as a slur on his honor and we would be without a penetration inte the Embassy. 4, Next meeting: Open. L Kluwcce F 3vkin. SECRET
_ MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM 2 SUBJECT 2 SECRET 6 Norenber 1963 ” Lawrence F. Barker ; ; . Meeting with LITAMIL-9, l Nov 1963 se a 2. A meeting was held with L-9 in B's car from 2200 hours te 23h8 . hours, i tov. The car was parked in the Tlaxpana area. 2e L-9 reported as follows: ; . ; Be Nanuel YEA uel VEGA, ptt on PCS orders for Hsrana on the 3 Now Cubana mht. Coty*SOLORZ10 bid hin good-7e at the airport along ate nenbers of the Embassy staff, “"s is not clear who is or "will be replacing VEGA. % : . oi *RERNANDES Soa worked very late the nizat of Friday 1 Nov, L-? still thinks he may be doing como wrrk, . [avrod °) Ce ‘ico'*ExECTS is coing-to move inte tts row of offices where L-9 igs now located and is being "cars: Sint @« is installing Laat: ne htm mormon, blinds, ebe.; a8 did ROA recent. als we #AZCUE will be around for a short whice tefore returning to “Guba -- he is planning to take a trir te Carpeche with sonecne named LIZALD= to study building materials in nreparation for AZGUs's assiennent to JUCEPLUN as an architect when he returns. L-9 went on at sone length about ANCE += said he was certain that AZCUE is not a Cormumist, not 2 [P nenber (note that AMKNOZ-1 has AZCUS adnitting he has neen a Communist for many years = 7) L-9 reneated that AZCUD is an implecazie foe of "the Pentagon, and the ruling cireles in the US" bot has a high rezard for the : American people, AZCUE's wife is siili very upsct at the prospect ¢ of going to live in Cuba, L-9 thinks 17CIT is a loyal Fidelista who would never knowinviy cooperate with the Anericans. At lunch with L-9 on i Nov AZCUE lashed out priinst the Cuban CP -- said that Lazaro PENA should be shot -- hz 42s served his usefulness =~ after the shoobing a ronunent cen’ be raised to him, but Cuba would be nuch better off with hin oc: of the waye ptroe \ on eM SIRE, ALZCLE!s replacenent,y is not rocular and nowhere near as f. Be effective as AZCLZ. SylviatoleN coseatt Uke him but will probably fo on workine as his secreticr for the tine being. ape : L-9 sow ACCS kiddins with Sylvia retently in the office -- chiding her for bein a Cormunist, Sylvia ~clied, "It's not true, I an not a Stalinist and I hava never bem interested in Party menbere ship. I don't accent the Party lins ani by talking this way you .are insulting mel" Le-9 thinks Svlvis 13 a very intelligent cirl. He thinks we might be able to sain her cocneration by getting a desirable mals next to her -- she is, acconlirg te L~9, "a little putita,® AZCUR tald L-9: "If they don't giva ms a good’ job in Cuba, I'm not SECRET