14-00000 SkECR ET -~ 9 - Jude SUAREZ Lopez, Yurdy Nikelayevich PAPOROV (201-82485), Known KuB, and Aleksey ?rokhorovich ANTIPOV (201-65425), Suspect KGB, PROENZA is a lesbian who at one time was living with Maria Elena VAZQUEZ Gomez, one of Mexico's foremost female Communists and suspect Sovset agent. She was also reported to have “unnatural re- lationships’ with Polores Olmedo de PHILLIPS and Adelina ZENDLJAS, In 1944 she was dismissed from her iob as Cuban Cultural Attache anc returned to Cuba, presumably as the result of a personal : ‘ enmity with Real A20A, She worked for awhile as a teacher in the Oriente . ‘ University. In 1965 she was arrested and accused of embezzlement, al- though it is Lelisved that she was actuuliy accused of being an American : t agent. She was held in a concentration camp at Santa Maria dei Mar. 10) John Alexandur Cartness RETTIE (201-739202) DPOB: 24 dcvember 1925, RETTIE ia a fcrmor British intelligence officer who is sus- renee storie re ae A es = pected of being a Sovict agent. While serving in Moscow he was the subjec¢ of a morel, financial, and ospionage blackmail attempt by the Soviets.” eee RETTIB reperted only the osp tonage aspect of this sttompt. These alle- gations led to his departure from Moscow, (54) oe : Circa 1960 RETIJE was in Mexico City, ostensibly as a journalist, 4 ‘In 1963 he was recalled to London for interrogation regarding his connectiors © = [{' i with CPM members and suspect IS individuals from the USSR and Yugoslavis, (85) oS | nterrogsticn datermi:zcd that RLTTIE had probably been under Soviet develop- _ . mont since 1947, (56) Although dofinite proof was lacking, RUTTIU was i < vetdred from active service, Yet in March 1060 he was allowed to return to Mexico City ae a guide for the Brisieh Overseas Unginesring Service Buroau, (53) In NOvembor 1967 RETTIA was reportedly a teacher in Ceylon, (57) 42) Carlos Isaac CHAPLUK (201-229418) POB: Minsk, USSR, Naturalized Moxican citizen, SUR UD 9s 24+ dot Ree AR REO «+ CHAPLUK 1a the owner of the Plays Bungalows Motel in Lasenada, a oo This hotel has been frequently used by the Soviets at isaet since 1956, (67) ce ____ GHAPLUK accompanied POPOFP_(See Itom15.012) when he entertained. three Sovict visitors in 1058, (See also Itsm 11 6 7) Subsequent to the ae Soviets’ visit, CHAPLUK contacted the Soviet iLmbassy in Mexico City ree \ - - garding a visit to his relatives in tho USSR, (64) In June 1058 CIAPLUK - joe departed Mexico to visit his brother in Rngland. His passport contained - ns PSOE) WER NG cote es xomereEND ctbamosee ot ee cmt tsemmnene seers me come maT see
14-00000 5, EC RET - 10 - 12) ‘Miguel POFOFF (201-286055) POPOFF is a member of the Molikanc sect which settled in Colenia Guadclupe near Ensenada circa 1930, He is a kichfield Oil distributor in Ensenada, In 1958 he was visited by three Soviets from the Soviet Embassy in Moxico City - NikolaY Vasilyevich AKSENOV (201-106469), Known KGR, Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV (201-120123), Known KGB, and Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich POPOV (201-87096), Known KGB, POPOFF and his son showed the Soviets around the Ensenada much in the same manner that thoy entertained Subject and KOSTIKOV in 1963, (See also Item 11 e 7) 13) Carlos PADILLA Perez PADILLA is the Quito manager of Prensa Latina, (VOI: 1962) (11) In 1960 his namo was on a list of persons regularly receiving money from the Embassy of Cuba in Quite. (63) . Subject had breakfast with PADILLA at the Alcron Hotel when _ a he was in Quito in February 1962, They later went to the Libreria Nueva me : ' . Cultura (PCE bookstore) with Carlos DOMINGUEZ Baez and two unidentified Ecuadoreans, PADILLA has reportedly returned to Cuba, (145 ~ 24) John Alfred ALIUS (201-54192) DPOB: 24 September 1925, Chemnitz, Gormany. eee ALIUS is a journalist, He immigrated to Canada with his parents in 1950 where they became naturalised citizens, From 1946-49 he was in Brazil with the Mormon Mission; 1952-53, in Europe with the Canadian NATO delegation; 1955-S4, manager of the United Pross Association in Peru, (62; In January 1967 he was chief of the United Fross Inter national in Mexics City where he was in business and social contact with i i Soviet Tats correspondent Valentin Ivanovich KUCHEROV (201+758017), | Suspect KGB, . 18) Luis SUAREZ Lopes BUARLZ is 4 journalist for Siem re, a Mexican Loftiat magazine, ($1) In Pobruary 1908 SUARZZ wes in Havana, scheduled to depart for Moscow, | i ree _foking, and Hanoi, fle wih} vepertediy be handling swe debs. on Shia erin. CPi}: Hew Ont Ere Mermre goer SPRUE RARE ORT Fen sttemeas RD EE: * rte mee sending to El Horaldo the more urgent, timely newa, and to Siempre that eof a more literary nature, (81) : “SRCPRET ~ Te eames BE Cherie |.
14-00000 snd meeweetwovaputnsrver ae eemere es mes sascememanene 12 eee * S,E C RET «}}e 16) Clewentina BASSOLS Clementina Batalla de BASSOLS, lawyer,is the widow of Nartiso BASSOLS (201-56987), prominent leftist, former Mexican Ambassador to the USSR, and suspect Soviet agent. (12) BASSOLS is active in the PCM ond PCM front activities, She was President of tho Mexican Promotional Committee for the First Latin American Womon's Congress, 1959; Prosident of the Instituto de Amistad y de Intercambio Cultural Mexicano-lungaro (IAICMIH), 1960; leader of the Mexican delegation to the Congress of Mexican Women in Havana, 1963; membor of the Executive and Coordination Commission of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) until 1965 when she reportedly resigned to help organize the Permanent National Committee of Solidarity with Vietnam, (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) In 1967 she was Honorary President of the National Council of the National Union of Mexican Women (UNMM), and was reportedly to attend the World Peace Council in Moscow, (13) | 17) Guadalupe Perez MACTIA DOB: 1929, ' . Guadalupe Perez MACIA is the wifs of Fidel MACIA who has been a PCM member since circa 1955, She, too, haa been active in PCM activities for several years. In 1959 she was Secretary of the Coahuila State Committes of the PCM, (19) In 1963 she waa one of two delegates selected to represent the Coshuila Union Democratica de Mujercs Mexicanas (UDMM? at the Cengresa in Havana (Soe also Clementina BAESOLS. Item 168 C16). (20) In 1956 she was Socrotary of the Coahuila UDMM, (22) rma Rais, Te RES ante APb 2 teASEARAL NAAT EE TP 16) Nuna SIMANOVICH (201+750514) DPOB: 1912, Kiev, USSR . SIMANOVICH arrived inMoxico in 1928, In 1945 he moved from Moxico City to Ensenada where he bocame the owner of a curio shop, lis nother and younger brother are atili living in the USSR, (WOLy 1964) (38) SIMANOVICH is an LNERGO source in Unsonada, (64) In September 1063 Subject and KOSTIKOV contacted SIMANOVICI! at his curio shop in banenans “Flay stated: shat th8y were. interested in pure. chasing the shop, KOSTIKOV asked SINANOVICH if he still had relatives SECRET . ; cee arugnee remmmemeemnnianmansrney saree monies way ae mE
14-00000 5 L “RET - 12 - living in the USSR, When SIMANOVICH replied in the affirmative, KOSTIKOV Stated that he could easily arrange travel documents and financial help if needed, (38) . 19) Robert Maurice KATZ (201-104222) DPOB: 19 September 1904, France, KATZ was a journalist with the Agence France-Presse in Mexico City from 1946 until circa 1964, (41) In 1904 he was President of the Foreign Correspondents Association in Mexico City. In January 1966 he was reportedly in Havana, (42) From 1955-59 KATZ was in contact with Boris Alexsandrovich KAZANTSEV (201-028975), Known KGB, then First Secretary. (43) occasion he called KAZANTSEV to report a mattor of “mutual interest” - offering the Soviets a teletype link with France-Presse. KAZANTSEV stated that the Soviets were not interested at that time, (COMMENT: The (Station a at that time, August 1957, had unverified reports that Pravda representat’ve Vasily Mikhaylovich CHICHKOV (201-207254), SuspectRIS, probably KGB, was using the Agonce France-Presse antenna.) 2¢) Enriqueta GOMEZ + probably identical with Enriqueta GOMEZ Cortes, ose" - Bpdaueta GOMES Cortes is believed to be a music professor, She claims to have written a book entitled Paginas Musicales, In 1959 she et was in contact with Stanislaw RACZKA (201+121229), who was attached to the Polish Legation Pross and Prepaganda section, regarding his opinion on her book. (44) 21) Mario GILL GILL, of Prensa Latina, was member of the Honorary "residium of the Second Congross of Communist Youth of Mexico:(JCM) in February 1967, (30) 92) Francisco LRIVA In 1080 LUIVA's name was among .cuadoregn Communists promoting an 041 workers’ atrike in Puerto Libertad, lle was: also Jisted as one an~ the Communinte vesponaible -for-the yrowth- and propsgandwoul the PCE ki the Peninsula sone of Gusyas Province. (88) (80) In 1961 LLEVA underwent SECRET el On one 16-3 ° meee sen Gea AAP Os ORNS RT a eo of | so" SRAM OEERE | OEE TE BOE BATE SET: HEY TPT OOD Fever 4 : ‘ cee aimee. es oetnnereemnteioe ee oe POC .