” e@scrmeyaATIaN EF eng fora, that moans thé Russ tho Chinese, then this nigntsare io ever wordll do everything wo oan to eae Cuba tho chewplaco of Gemoaracy in tho Western Heniophero, Add wild pour ia, Guba wild have ite own Marehall Plan, Beeause 1 is in cur national interest to do go, Ag you aro woll aware, cur patienal interest, these of your people and nine, are easentially the sane," “when the house of cards Sollapsss we want to make tho tram eieion as painless and as bloodless as pessible and.that is why wo Reed gocd sen Aiko you to phase over into the new Cuba and make it work, After the fall of Pidol I will probably ask for aix weeks leave to drink Cuba Libres "en pachanga” with my many good friends in Cuba o= then ay government will sond we off to chasing Rusiians end Chinese, Wo will have ascompliched cur mission in Cuba, "In return for your cooperstion you will receive as your greatest reward tho satisfaetien of having played a vital part in the liberation of your homeland, in eddition I can offer you two ty, both seonomie and physical «== you will not a he wall and shot in the passions of the moment, and (b) 0 Puture,” ; 9, AMGESS replied as followss "7 am not going to give you a definite yos or no today, I have already told AMNIP this, I need time to think things through, If I docide to join your team I will do so without reservations and : will work with you to the death if necossary == X am not afraid, I have resd a good bit about Comuuniom and I must be frank in tolling you that I. find it looks very good on paper, Bat in practice 1% doss not work and I have not been blind to how it has wreoked Cuba, Novertheloss there are a lot of convinoed Communists in Cuba now o= ‘youngsters whose whole education has been in that direction, They are a determined bunch, Futhermore, I do ndt feel, as you apparently , do, that the Russians will ever relinquish their hold on Cuba, their } ot. only solid base in Latin America, I long for the liberation of my |. country but I eannot see it on the horigon,” | "The last time I was in Cuba it seemed to mo that things were a bit better, There ig food, There arg shoes, although not Lo many and of very poor quality, Of course, when you bring ‘any’ people | _ down as far ag the Cuban people have been brought, in steady-desline, and betterment is instantly notioed and appreciated no matter haw _ slight and regardless of the fact that conditions in general are atill way below what they should be," ; “a =™Mmon, I also have the problem of my father, I want to bring him out and that may take some time, I don't want to do anything now that will jeopardize my. chances of pulling this off,” ®7Y would not know what to do if I were to seek asylum, I te a have often thoughtof doing this but I would not fit into the exile 2 ei picture, I would find it phystoally impossible to live away from a a Cuba for more than a year == impossible, I am too mich of a Cuban el *” to contemplate that," oo . - . "7 appreoiate your viewpoints which are @early stated and I ~ a appreciate your sincerity, You in turn must appreofate the necessity | . Fa for me to think things over, to have another look at Cuba, I am 7 ca going on Sunday (27 September), to see about bringing out my father, a to talk to my friends there, All of this I must do before I see you = J again to give you my decision,” fae me tee tenga neem ar 3 ey een amma pan ae \ ~ CARSSICATION PAGE NO
primary 4¢ almost @ certainty that he would sooner’ or later be diceovered, Tae C/O devoted eoveral minutes to the subjeet of operational eecurity, asauring 2 never lost a man tho faithfully followed tho simple rules of ccapartacatation thoreas many pesple hed been lest because they had, like 50. many Cubans, dooided to inform gene third party of their involvement in intelligence activity, AMSEG@S waa informed that no=one eloe in ODYOKE knew that the C/O was talking to AMBESS, at Hosdquarters - j ‘4% was only mown that the C/O was in Mexieo on official businesa, AMSEIG inquired |. abcutthe possibility that the C/O might try to introduce him to other people, ,  efffeials or agents, and was told that no such aoticn was. contemplated at this tine -. oP im the forevcable future and that AMSESS would ajways. bé in a position to refuse -'-@aah contest if he felt it endangered his security, As an example of the organization’) ‘eoncern with the safety of those eooperating with 46, AMSESS was reminded that many ~ of Bie colleagues are already cooperating but that le would never leam the identity of, any of them from the C/o; in a similar manner his identity would be proteeted from both friend and fos. ' whlling to submit at this time to a grilling, for the tiret part of the meeting the eonversationtas allowed to drift with a minimum of direction; later on the C/O posed mere direct questions and AMSESS provided direct answors, AMNIP had eautioned the C/O repeatedly to go easy on AMBESS, not to push him or to bring up topics which he might. construe as designed to exert pressure, For example, the fast that AMSESS wag, involved. in 4 theft sage involving official funde in Camaguey was not mentioned ; The approach’ was designed to entice AMSESS into Cooperation rather than to foree him, 3199 In, tho animated ecnversation whieh ensucd 4t coon became eleas ehat . concern in eocperation eonserned hio security; ho ecemsd te consider that ho had ll, Im accordance with AMNIP's assesement of AMBESS as willing to talk but not , 12, Bome of the information drawn from ANSESS follows: a, Aul. has a great and enduring love for hie homeland, b, He is blamed by a lot of people for the imprisonment and execution of many persona in Cuba, At the time that he functioned as Second Chief of the Habana Police Patrol he arrested many people on orders from his superiors, 8ome of these are still in prison, others have been shot, People who don't know any better look upon him as arresting officer, trial judgo, jury, and firing squad, Not too long ago a lady he never remembers having seen before shouted ®surderor® at him in Habana as he drove down the street, Many people think he is a mrderer, He doean't really care chat thoy think, 0, Hia economic situation ie good in Mexico, ‘At one time he could wt have gotten his hands on 700,000 dollars, now he could make off | p with about 125,000 dollera if he wished, His salary is just ° ae over 500 dollars a month (écnfires LITAINT trash report) and he oe gets eh allowance for expenses of some 150 dollars a month, The government pays him for gasoline used by his car, If ho were to pe transferred to Cuba his situation would be mueh worse since his salary would drop back to about 200 Cuban pesos a month, — EPRODUCTIDAY' 4, He buys some clothing {tema from the United States by mail, I : 7) e, His servant ig not to be trusted, She used to work for Ramon : SINOBAS, No clandestine commnication with him should be == rt through her, ; . f, -His wife is completely trustworthy in every respect, It.would be — alright to leave messages with her, . i @. Hic wife would very much like to see her father, 12 possible around . January 1965, He lives in Hialeah, Florida (confirms JMMAVE infor= mation), Al doesn't much care for his father-inelaw, The feeling t 4s mitual but Aol thinks it would do his wife a lot of good if the _ father=in=law could visit Mexico, He has been unable to get a Mexican visa, DocId: 32349780 Page 5
| $3199 a. Je Ke le Me a ni. O06 Po Qe Pe He would not yoport from Cuba by radio Ye) DP’ ing stations are as thiek thers as mahroons, (Nothing vas said about a radio link with aol up to this point, He wag assured that he could be tra im a soeure method of commmication not involving radio or third parties. AMNIP endorged this statement). He was surprised recently to learn that his mother had ones been & Communist in the 1930's, This fact was brought to his attention by Seourity officers in Habana who had. run a now acourity ohook on Awl, Hie mother ie from “uneducated country atook.” od “ * His mother and father are divorded, Fe ie mich closer to fis father, His father 16 about 70; birthdate unknown even to himaelf, and has hed prostate trouble recently; Before the revoitition he was secountint and worked for a@ man now residing in New York, The accounting firm was called Falla» Gutierrec, He hag never visited the U8. Ho planned to vieit Washington in the early days of the revolution when a friend was Consul densral at Washington, Fidel CASTRO'a reaction to the trial of Marcos RODRIGUEZ Alfonso was not surprising to Ael, CASTRO had no alternative, ‘Had he used the trial to clobber the Comminis ta the people of Cuba; fed . up with Comminigm, would have taken thié as license to run amok and turn the country iipside dowi, He | was.onoe in Prague, Czechoslovakia, - He found this a drab | as presenteday Habana even though it is touted as the most capital istic oity in Communism, His commercial activities don't keep him very busy, He made one trip to Binaloa to buy garbanzos (chick peas), He negotiated the recent purchase of medical equipment from Hoffman-Pinther & Bosworth . that caused so much trouble and publioity in the papers, He got the nowafamous cheok from the Banco del Atlantico because the bank was short of oash at the moment; when it was not acceptable he took it back and got oash instead, This affair caused so mich trouble, he had to go to Habana to explain things to hig superiors, Antonio GARCIA Lara did a lot more traveling about on commereial activity because he knew so many more people in Mexico having _ lived here during the time CASTRO was fighting in Cuba, The Ambassador is spooked by the thought that the Embassy ia full of hidden microphones, He oalled a staff mooting and read an article from Time or Life about electronic eavesdropping; ainss - then he has "seen" microphones everyvhers, (Confirms LITAMIL@9 reports). j The Soviet Embassy is also yery worried about hidden microphones, The code olerk of the Cuban Embassy in Montevideo once left the Embassy with the code materials in hig possession, He was gone for two days, was unable to make contact with KUBARK and eventually went bask to the Embassy to his wife.and children, He was sent back to Cuba as a prisoner, (This item was revealed to AMNIP on a4 September ). ; 13, In reminisotng with AMNIP about mutual acquaintances dating from the time - of their service together in Q=2, AMSESS revealed the following: we a, be DoclId: 32349760 luis GOMEZ is now Segundo Jefe de operaciones, DSE, Camaguey, His father is an old=time PSP militant, Iemasl ARCIA Domingues, aka "El Chine," ta Jefe de Inspeceion “) de la Policia for the entire island, Camilo GOMEZ, a DGI man, Page 6 a mo ears NO ee seen eeeregs cee eee ett orn ee NR Ler Om R NE | RE AE ENE RR LE NC A =e Fa nese tne eenegeesg 1 owes ements semgncernenine ine que mere peepee eat aa) CUvEniony) Ee ers Avs
‘ we Hy 34199 \ > geeueed Arois of. boing a hezosemal but Areia threatened witnesses againet hia and they decided not to testify, — 6, Capitan Carlos PIOUEREDO was sentenced to three years in jail for setting fire te his home after a quarrel with his wife who is a sioter of Jose ABAAHANTES, There wore a lot of explosicns then the flamcs reached exsmuniticn and oxplooives in the house, — Pigueredo has been sentto the prisan on the Islo of Pinen, i . . 4, Tho office of Manuel PINEIRO, aka "Farbaroja," has been moved » fron hig hone to the Ministry of Intorior building, It was moved “because Pineiro was affaid that a nearby embassy would be used as & listening post for technical oporationg against hie office, e, Captain Armando TORRES, aka "El Frances," is in charge of coordination of guerrilla warfare training courses, {, Major Ouillermo JIMENEZ and Camilo COMEZ now work for the DOI, . (Throughout A=] refered to the DOI es "N° == he did not uso the tora DOI), ~ gy Antonio ARGUELLES is now in charge of technical operations of D&E. h, Captain Orlando PANTOJA is in charge of the counter~infiltratian group of DSE, ~ y ’ f . 4, A=l was assigned to a course in counter=infiltration techniques when groups specializing in thia were being set up, but when the Comminists found ovt about this they removed him from the course, A Soviet general taught in. this course, J. (fnu) SANTACOLOMA ie in charge of the Plan Norte and recently went through Mexico en route to Canada; he did not return via Mexioo, (DEGRIP-1 recently reported Enrique OLTUSKI in charge of thig plan known. as the Plan Norte de Matanzas, a cattle~ raising enterprise), ; k, A Security official named (fu) CAMPOS recently went through Mexioo, 1, Alberto PEREZ, aka "El Loco,” is now in Paris, 14 On the subject of °M” (Direcoion Generai de Inteligencia), the following exohange took place: C/O1 Who is the "mM" chief in the Embassy? Ael: Vega, (Manuel VEGA Perez) C/o: Is he here permanently now, or temporarily? - Aeols Permanently, I think, C/o: Who else is with "M"? Ael: Rogelio (Rogelio RODRIGUEZ Lopez), But he is just a. second rater, C/O: Was Mirabal "M"? (Alfredo M, MIRABAL Diaz) . Aels Yes, But he had to go home == something to do with an .infeotion here (Pointing) on the outside of his mouth, It wouldn't olear up, C/o: Are the other consuls with "M" #= Mariano (nartane GARCIA Perez) ‘ Qvidio (Ovidio SAMA Viamonte ) and Posada (Jcse Luie POSADA Torrea)? Apel: No, Mariano is a very good consul by the way, Gama ia a jerk, C/o: Are you with "™"? - -Ael: Well, yes, . c/os You are considered an "M" officer ~ by "M® and by yourself? Ael: Yes, but I amon tre fringe, I don't domything important. . Nevertheless they consider me as still connected with Sscurity DoclId: 32349780 Page fF , Face wo ee eet Poy ; .