(404-10196-10276 3 (pd mm ND GO ob Ef CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ‘Thie material contains laformation eGecting the Netionel Defense of the United states within the meaning of the Explonage tawe, Tithe 48 USC. Secs. 733 and Te, the transmission or revelation ef which {a any manner to an unautborterd gece te pronibited by lee, SECRET. NO FOREIGN DISSEM COUNTRY “Gaba . REPORT NO. = CSCI-316//00691-64 suBJECT Radees Akon . _ DATE DISTR. “18 August 1964 NO. PAGES 3 . REFERENCES ; '. pate op = 1964. _ INFO. . PLACE & Washington, Di ec. - . DATE ACQ. . FIELD REPORT NO. THIS 18 UNEVALUATED INPORMATION. SOURCE QRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CORCENT f TENTATIVE, SOURCE: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964, / o Headquarters Comments. 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. 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. Andres ARMONA, pseudonym “Ernesto,” is the officer in charge of the Haiti Desk in the Seccion Central (Central American Section) of the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (The National Liberation Department - LN) of the Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence ~ DGI). ARMONA ¥*3 foymerdy, the, Cuban Commercial Attache in Mexico. Headquarters Comments 1, A report dated 8 August 1961, from a fairly reliable source, stated that one Andres ARMONA Ramos had been issued a diplomatic visa by the Costa Rican Embassy - in Habana. ARMONA was newly appointed as secretary first-class to the Cuban Embassy in San Jose; he was . also expected to serve as temporary charge d‘affaares © 07 in the Embassy. SECRET 4 5 NO FOREIGN DISSEM 3 ; an come (anes 1 STATE > | OIA ARMY NAVY ala NSA ; | oce 4 ________ REP _CINCLANT | Ni : iNote: Field distribution Indicoted by “2".) i CSCI-316/00691~ » ‘ean | j_Le=rtys free LNG PROJECT (AMMUG jt. COMET ted) HELE ron & i WK LD:s ICT /De. 4 WH/SA 7 O19 WEY £9) ry
14-00000 ‘had replacéd CUENCA as chief of G-2 in Mexico. SECRET NO PARKIGN DISSEM A usually reliable source with good contacts in’ the Costa Rican xevetument reported that one (thu) ARMONAS eas a Cuban G-2 agent ° based at the Cuban Embassy tn San Jose. ARMONAS reportedly was the senior official who went to Costa Rica with instructions tu reorganize all existing Cuban fémts. ‘This infermation was received ina report dated 21 August 1961, This same source, in a report dated 1 September 1961, stated that (fnu) ARMONAS, the Cuban G-2 agent in Costa Rica, delivered . a lecture at a meeting on 21 August 1961, sponsored by the, . * Cubans. He spoke’ particularly to a group of Communist. sympathizers ‘and militants who were chosen to go to Cuba during. the week - - ma . starting 27 August 1967, to receive six weeks of instruction: in guerrilla activities in the Province of Las Villas. On 6 September 961, -8 usually reliable source reported that . Andres Nicolas ARMONA Ramos, dbplomatic passport number b/61/175, arrived in Mexico on 15 May 1961, departed Mexico for Habana on 5 June 1961, returned to. Mexico-on 28 July 1961, and departed Mexico for San Jose on 30 July 1961. ARMONA was described as having been born in 1919, a mulatto, and married. in the 7 August 1961, issue of the San Jose daily newspaper, ' ¥ ‘La Hora, it was reported that Andres Nicolas ARMONA Ramos, the Cuban Charge quAttaires, was replacing Cuban Ambassador Juan Jose FUXA Saenz A report dated 29 August 1962, from a usualiy-reliable source, . stated that Andres ARMONA Ramos, the new Cuban Commercial Counselor of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico, arrived in Mexico on 24 August 1962, and would replace Ramon CUENCA Montoto. A Mexican businessman with close contacts in commercial and shipping circles stated, in a report dated 29 October 1962, that there had been no evidence that Andres ARMONA Ramos According to the.source, ARMONA is’ highly intellectual and-has no under- ‘standing of commercial activities CUENCA suggested that ARMONA be transferred ta the Cultural Section and source believes that this will be the case, Documentary information received in a report dated 25 June 1963, from a representative of this Agency in Mexico revealed the following information: Andres ARMONA Ramos, a Negro who was born in Habana, Cuba, on 30 November 1918, is the Commercial Attache at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. He holds passport number D/62/4190. His wife, Irma MILAN Olivera de Armona, holds passport number E62/637 ARMONA has | two children, Fidel ARMONA Milan. and Margarita ARMONA Milan. In Mexico City, ARMONA and his family reside , ‘ SECRET ae NO FOREIGN DISSEM : .
WO SECRET : - KO FOREIGN ‘DISSEM -3~ . at Pachuca 127. -9. A report dated 23 April 1964, from a fairly reltable source, + stated that Andres ARMONA, formerly of the Commeredal Office of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico, 4s in trouble in Cuba for having kept .such poor records of expenditures; he came - elése to being thrown into.jail. He had now been relegated to clipping newspapers, clearly demoted. He left things in such an awful mess at the office in Mexico City, people there are still trying to straighten’ out his accounts. alison SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM