{to4-t0786-10108) ie ee ord hy - on6 RS GP oe CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ‘THis material contains information afecting the National Defense of the United States withia the meaning of the Eaplonage Lave, Tite 88 CBC. Seca TH and 184, the transmission of rereiation of Shih ia aay manner te an UBBUtboriend perese ts probibited ty lee. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Countay Cuba REPORT NO. - CSCI-316/01642-64 ’ \ Sugect Ramon SINOBAS Casado DATE OISTR. 13 October 1964 No. paces 40 3-—« «, ;RETURNTOCIA. Background Use Only REFERENCES ' Do Nat Reproduce pate of 1954 — i NFO. piace g Washington, D. C. DATE ACQ.October 1964 | FIELD REPORT NO. . THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DERINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT ($ TENTATIVE, Source, A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. 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.. ‘Headquarters Conments 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. Source met Ramon SINOBAS Casado about September or October 1963 at the former headquarters of the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Department - LN) of the Direccion General de Intelligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence ~- BGI) when the Department was located at Calle Sa and 94, Miramar, Habana, Cuba. At the time source met SINOBAS, SINOBAS was assigned to the Departamento. Llegal(Illegal Department) of the DGI. Source recalled that SINOBAS, at the time of the meeting, had recently ‘returned from a foreign assignment. Source further recalled that it was approximately at this time that Ramon Cesar CUENCA left on a trip to Poland. SINOBAS and CUENCA were very friendly. 1,2,3,.4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 . Headquarters Comments 1. In a report dated 17 April 1962, from a resident of Mexico who has reported reliable information for about three years, it was reported that Ramon SINOBAS was the First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. Ramon SINOBAS, Casado, First Secretary cf the Cuban Embassy in , Stour Fettuded tow qonemgesy, SECRET peerage NO FOREIGN DISSEM ferns alk NSA Raich | oca 2. aA fairly reliable source in a report dated 22 May 1962, said that 3 2 1 STATE 1 ora ARMY NAVY REP CINCLANT CINCSC# I&NS iNete, Feld distribution indicated by “#~.) R__icr/pra al rey : LX = 1823 WV Bi l!_Ws PEEVE 3 we dane? (2 Icr/pza_| 50 PROJECT (AMMUG} 2) i 4 i ra ! 2 aS SIT CSCI~316/01642-6 At prpsas 711 | a” “CODaDinatin sl Ag Seas 6 | Laaisdn | fot wre agree is AWAY TOTALS Wit /SA 7 (1), WE 1 (2), CI 4, RID 1
upy SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI = 316/01642064 =2~ — _ Yexico City, was in Mexico because he is intelligent, diplomatic, and wel] acquainted | with pretocel. > a usually reliable source with good connections fin the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City jreported, in a document dated 27 November 1962,: that Ramon SINOBAS“Casado was the Charge d'Affaires of the Cuban Enpasay in Mexico City. An untested source told a usually reliable source, in a roport . dated 10 May 1963, that Fidel CASTRO wanted to. know who the SINOBAS* were, 1.@., the father and son who were located in the Cuban Eubassies in France and Mexice respectively; CASTRO described them as “extremistas .” In a 3l Way 1963 report a usually reliable source with "good contacts an Costa Rican Communist Party circles, stated that the wife of ; Ranon SINOBAS Casado, Charge d'Affaires of the Cuban Embassy in Xexico City, is the former Harta Didier SOLIS Campos, a ‘Costa Rican Communist. In a report dated 25 June 1963, the following biographic inforastion was reported on Ramon SINOBAS Casado: SINOBAS, First Secretary/Charge d' Affaires of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, was born about 1939. He arrived in Mexico on 5 March 1962 and carried Cuban passport number D/62/108, His wife, Marta SOLIS Campos de Sinobas (Costa Rican), and his son, Ramon SINOBAS Solis, arrived on 4 May 1962, and carried passport number D/62/245. The SINOBAS' reside at Pachuca 127-203, Mexico D. F, SINOSAS is a suspected Cuban G-2 Agent. A usually reliable source, in a report dated 4 July 1963, stated that Ramon SINOBAS Casado, First Secretary of the @uban Embassy in Mexico City, was scheduled to return to Cuba on or about 19 July 1963. SINOBAS was not expected to return to Mexico. aA usually reliable source, in a report dated 15 August 1963, stated that Ramon SINOBAS Casado, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City who is vacationing in Habana, “probably" will returs to Mexico; however, SINOBAS' return is not certain. In a report dated 3 March 1964, a usually reliable source reported that Ramon SINOBAS, his wife and two children, arrived in Nexice on 1 March 1964, enroute to SINOBAS' new embassy post ia Santiago, Chile. Source described SINOBAS' wife as being common and cheap. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM ~
SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI-316/01642-64 a oy 24 10, A usually reliable source with excellent contacts lin the Cuban Embassy in Santidgo]stated in a report dated 4 March 1964, that Ramon SINOBAS Casado was replacing Pedro MARTINEZ Pirez, Charge d'affaires of,the Cuban Embassy in Santiago. In this sane report, an @fficial Chilean service Feported that Ramon SINOBAS Casado was” born on 25 July 1935, afd that he carried Cuban diplomatic . passport 64/104. His wife, Marta SOLIS Campos was bora on \ 25 December 1935, and carried Cuban diplomatic passport number 64/105. They have two children, Ramon SINOBAS Solis, born 14 April 1962, and Luis Felipe SINOBAS Solis, born 11 May 1963. 11. In the 17 March 1964 issue of the Chilean newspaper, Ultima Hora, was. a photograph of Ramon SINOBAS Casado, the now Charge d‘Affaires of the Cuban Embassy in Santiigo, as he presented his credentials to Julio PHILLIPPI, the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, on 17 March 1964. 12. In a report dated 14 August 1964, it was stated that all Cuban | officials in Santiago would-be returning to Cuba via Mexico on 15 August 1964, because of the break in diplomatic relations between Chile and Cuba. Ramon SINOBAS Casado was included in the group. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM Wee bode eo bos \