othe DISPATCH | act ° Chief of Station, WAVE’ as ee ee CC ¥ “ebiet WE Chief ‘ FUSULP ; CAF ALIN “Ener oceutinl | CR COPPEREY/W/LINK/Operations Interrogetion of Cuban Refucees ACT DH REQUIRED EESEPENTES | vars _}eoos s ascot nose By aie . alte ae we, 1, Attackmont A, forwarded herevith, ie a VATALK/L trenclaticn of the VALIEE interroretion of Turlaus Antonio Felix E™LCYRA and John KCCH, The report was received from VWILDT/4, who acturlly 41d the questioning, Copies of eubjects" gessports, also received from "viLDEY/4 » ere forvarded as Attachment B herewith, — “8 When bending [hese docrments, VALIEL/4 said that come of we” inforgation in the interroration report wea purposely distorted, probebly to protect | the lenient action of the ViLIEfs in wattera concerning the Featival and counter= ectivity. The cnly extant copies of this report are in the YALILE files. opm avaie 2 embry Pf a ble bocccpu tomo + WALPPR Ry CLASTCHBURT Attachments: ae ms 7 i ps e @, Interrogation report LTRs . b, Passport copies - a : . Distribution: ear rre me are G&1L-UAVE, watts, HIS sizcle copy cech ne as - fo We, w/ett. s single cory of _ Be We, v/att. a (including orig, Pinolsh-2enguage versio ingle cory 1 8a a ~ a single ory ° z att. @& i i i : . ooreder/ge 0: a ~ feo iF se Sa? . “ Sepa ee sR ele! As AL oN bli Behe Mey Beth vA * Pome acoheortn UR gaaete mie weg weecnens semen ere cbs alee: mee rogue va sae . ay Big feta Nt oy r went? : . aia do dew cone oF in wo nte . wee .
14-00000 a SECRET. gf F eountrys FINLAND pater AKTIeFESTIVAL ACTIVITY EY TWO CUEAR REFUSEES © * Date: ..10 August 19¢2. ora cwt: * &t 1800 houre on Eundey, 29 July 1962, a -procersion conpoeed ‘of various nationalities ettending the World Youth and Student VOI” | Peace.and Friencehip Festival wae enroute to the Ciysrie Stedivua OB ra -. along vannerheinintie, As At paseed the cannerhe izintie-Pohjole~ a 2 ‘Reutatiekatu intersection, etudente Enrique Antonio Felix Beloyra ot and John Koch, Cutan refugees living in the USA, vere ‘standing on " the top of a Wolkewagen. They, ehouted sonething at the proceseion - ‘and opened up a white banner (about 7$ by 4¢ feet) on ‘which the ‘following text was written in Spanish, French and mnglish:, os Be RBS . UE See”. Da pERT AD 15,000 jovenes presos CUBA 7 | oe Tn, . LIBEREZ 15,000 jeunes Prisonniers CUBA Free the 15,000 youth in jail in CUEA ioe, of" Beeause 4t was euepected that the conduct of Eeloyra and Koch ak . i, Might lead to an incident involving them and the Feetival proceseion; | they were taken by police to the Helsink! Crininel Police Depart- a nent where their banner was confiecated, iin Ins pece= ' tor of the Criminal Felice Departnent y nade a, prelisinary inter- — ‘ ‘rogation at which Eeloyra and Koch said they they had come to Fin= “lena on 26 Jul 62 (eic) with the intention of making contact with - “the Cuban youth eat the Festival and to ask then atout. current bone “ditions in Cuba. With this in mind, they painted the above text - ON @ white ‘ebeet with ‘lack paint at their (eic) quarters tn the | Klaus Rurki & Hotel, meaning it to be seen by the: Cutan Festige Re eT Lg. alae os _ortzinel Foltee Survellience.
14-00000 Ge = nO dO dw ‘Leloyre and Koch. ed _ The interrogation tock place on 2 Aug €2, with a a6 treneletor and a: £8 witness, and was recorded 88 folJows: ; a Coe! Student Enrique Antonio Feli Eeloyra, citizen oFloute and $.fasitdhic. Feaneen tee And now @ refugee in the USA, err that-he Vas be torn on hi hue 42 Y kat tT Sy oe 2 avanna, Cute, and that he now lives perzanentiy atgl528 Eouth Bites ne ant ype or RERBDE EER 2k vest Sth’ street etre Florida’ He ata net wich to 4 close where joe had - dived in Cubé, for r nis, Parente 6m é. re. Sti) .theresnqlient 6. essne7 i. CNT. ‘university student, and in Cuba WEB studying to be an electrical engineer. His father was arrested in 1960 for political reasons but had told his sen before arrest to get @ pessport and get out of the country at the first opportunity. Exrique Releyra applied for and received a passport throuch the intstey of Internal Ale fairs. He now hes a Cuban passport, number 24102/1,6.19£0. He , hed made contact with the English Exbasey in Havanna and had made he acquaintance ef an official in it. When he left Havanna On 10 Sep 62 on « Pan-Anerican Alrwaye plane, the first etacp was put inte his passport on page six, The English E-bessy official whom Feloyra knew was also on the plane to help Feloyra ‘if any diffi=8 “Gulty arose in departure, The reason Beloyra did not leave eare i ‘lier was that an invasion was expected at any ronent. At @eviand : he turned hinself over to the American authorities and applied for mS "aw pestdence perzit. There ie @ residence perait stazped on pace joe seven of his pace port and it ie. dated 9 Oct €1. Peloyra could not go J “{ Lat continue his studies in the USA due to financial difficultice. He ; > took & job as bind of guide or functionary in the service of the (bo s.g- Cuban refugee prrenization there. Eis function vee to receive Ené,. se» Ses ee ce
14-00000 woere fh ae cr se — es A : pphaapeiell { -se. larly. the. Cutan nepey eae Te ‘kriown’ ee many Outen tone — nagar sae bo cette 2 8 dere me Cte es eins Aeimene amen i i leary Tar <b tS 9 SER RRR DS RONEN gr2e2rd Gietribute ald ehipzente ata echool where there were many sSinteha ; “ehildren of Cuban refusees. In the USA he belonged to a club of Cutan refuree students. About two weexe tefoere hie arrival in Finland he was in this club. They head heard thet the Cocruniet countries were preparine the Festival in Finland end they teren to discuss Tnat anti-Castro enlightenzent activity ought to te undertaken. E=ong the verious Feetival youth hi perticue 4. youth and students are in Cuban prisons ah ER Sa BUEC att Canna. Cuta were not aware of these ‘things. There vere f fiw . i nencial difficulties in getting started, but after it wags arranged ; for Beloyra to pay 50% now and 50% later in inetalizenta (custosary - there) the matter wes settled, teloyra had had {£00.00 in the tank ard he used this ae the down payment, the total coet being atout €1200. 00. Bis last paycheck= gave bin £400. 00 fer epending, en’ he nov has (242, 00 left. . @ For his enlightenzent work, Feloyra beasxbrought soce tooklets with hia fros an organization naned cirectoria Revolucinario Tetue dientil (DRE. ) (Cuban Students Revolutionary Leadership). They were printed in Chile in English, French, and fpanich, and tell atout conditions in Cuba and the students! fight arainst dictetor- ship beginning in the tikiaptista (sic) era, Earlier they were dis- tributed in the countries of lorth and South Azerica, According “to Téployra, the books he had here were in Mnglish and French, and were dietrituted prinarily to West Euroeean newezen, although his original inteat had been to distrubte then te all non-Coamuniet Festival perticipante. if Beloyra gékrenenbers correctly, he etili + hee qne en > of thie ~uFlieetion in hie hetel roes. AIR efecto og “omy reg aan SBE bene oo Rela a samt Pattee ABT ae we oe
14-00000 ond seine Fan landsonse7Tul, 625616) SHES’ P'Poou at the Hotel tet cin et i a re moreno nia cite TIS STEGER ntoerea many st ase ANCES AO STERETRED S o* ition te the Cuban delegation, With this in mind, Eeloyra and ~~“?! ‘enzo, from Koch's bed at the Klaus Kurki Hotel and they painted on it a _ Of this report, Koch had borrowed Ra Wolkewagen, and they drove . at 1800 houre that gare evening to eee the proceceion as it noved . hahed ; i , on page nine of ‘Beloyrate paseport is a Finnieh viea, nucter ss/ee, which hie etudent organizéetion got for hin in the office i of the Consul General of Finland in New York on the sane day the viea was stamped, 20 Jul C2, It was granted fron 24 Jul to 7 Aug 62. Eeloyra left New York for Finland on an SAS plane on 24 vul 62 “and arrived firet at Xot/Grup, Denzark, as stamped on pace eight of ~~ 7 _ ae Obed iiiien ° hie passport... From. Denmark, he flew.to6;. Arlgndaz;eSweden, oné25<dul4 62, aleo atanped on page eight of hie passport. He catty oir to he etill stays. Ecloyra met John Koch, a Cutan student whom he knew and who P was on a sinilar trip, in Stockholm and they cane to Finland to- 3 _cether. Koch firet got a room at the Klaus Fur'sd Hotel but on 31. Jul 62 be had to move to the Hotel Perho (a eumter hotel in the Restaurant Ferseonnel School) becausea of a room shortage, Their original intent: was to vieit the cuban Feetival dele- getion's quarters and inscribe the valle with ‘the lettere D.R.E. Evit efter they learned that the Finnish south had anti-Fectival opinione, ‘they decided to bring out openly their anti-Cectro po~ Koch bought eone black paint fron a Heleinki paint ehop on Eatur- dey end @gin the afternoon of Sunday, 29 Jul €2,.they took a eheet the Spanish, French, and Inglish text appeering in the opening pert oe 1 tee fe - weet were eine Ag 3s . nae cptpaines en - Lege SEP SR eget oy PURER Mee re . Sere . te
14-00000 pee eres ants ated TREE, Te cassie ‘eédreasseé Cutan delegatec/they met. in town. In the afterncon of apes i 5 t | { ' Crizinal Folice Department for reagcone unknowrythea. are at hoze (eic). . wo TO ot . lee . ‘ telanne tm pe awe wee BmemaTnd ge? Poe ble Ende “nnd feb | tert shee intersection and waited for the Cuten delegaticn. As it tegan to poes thes, theyme raiced the tanner they had msde at the Hlaue Kurki for the Cubans in the proceesicn to see. 4 policenen cane to the scene, however, and urged: then to get down fron the top . 2 of the car where they hed teen displeying their tarner, ené he saat nt oe arereenntemtifar emp ot teoy ther te the police etation where their pacererte vere ine-ec= SETAE SEs - OR an ole GRR 1 bx Bete SE ted and their tea bagner,.t taken B¥8ye., web Ehort interresation wae cade se to their conduct. UR, encores S bene thiepee loyravand:Kochewenteouteidesthe<tuban.F oti. WBAsreseptr éclegation's quarters ane on eone pictures; ceveral tizes they 1 Aug 62, they left Koch's quarters for a drive in the eare Kolke- “agen, and at 1930 hours were driving along Alexsanierinkatu to- worde Unioninketu. At the intereection of there two etreete, they had & collieion with a police car coming fren the left and the car they were driving eustainec sone body dazage,. Ants A UBT = tet thn ene =n Following the accident teloyra @end Koch were held et the . te Fefjoyra had in hie poscession (without @ Yeapon-bearing Tere mit) a Spenish-made 3encalibter Ster pletol, nucster 612843. He oh ‘eed that he had gotten it, as had the other Cuban refugees, fre= , the Cutan refugee organizations in the USA, Fecause such @ pere nit in the USA is not required to be on one's perecn, Eelosra_ éid not have one with hin in Finland, Bithough he coee heve it ‘ t Sect vn tthe - rag unify eo we tk 8 Ue. 2 ~ Beloyra declered that te ‘de leaving Finland tosey for hoze in the C54 vie | Exegen by plene. pete pint Caled Gh SE pe ronment mae
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14-00000 i” - . T-T-T-T \ wecenect sen om Useted States eubfect end citizen of &Pees Cube. Cube, ceclared thet @he wes torn on 29 21 vay 1°40 in Eeverne Geé the leral chile ef Unitel Etetes eutbsect Herzen Eech werzing there, na hie Cuban wife. low cohn Koch lives at A027 South vert 12th Avenue, Sere come, ‘dani, Florida. Fe had lived in Hevanne (where he wae A&P a) tudjing to be an electrical engineer) froma the tice ef hie tirth fp ea until 12 gun CO, O&cher he ene his parente xere forced to leave eve S08 50, £0athe A EApfongpolstical. resseHeg: BEB oo In the USA Foch telenged to the ease Cuten etucent organi ad. ote Loerie teninntdemrsasamintte. | sri Race cotieutthat mr igiS e“BeYoyrE"aIaS they had | Studied at the save -juziversity in Cubes “After going to Anerice, Yoch hed nog chence ay 29% 4! te continue hie etudfee, Ee got @ job es a ealesnan for é@ eteel Toch stbbojembecperticipated in the cuten student organize- Azetion's activity with the same intent Selorra had. Eech began & ‘ito meke preparatione for the trip to Finlend fer the Cozmunist countries’ Feetival, He had eaved ebout £500.00 end hed gotten . “about £700. OO fret his parents and friends mand thue was able to ‘purchace the neceesary tickets. This money eu‘ rficeed a, end Koch stilt has $150.00 in hie poseeszion. - Koch left Kew York on 25 Jul 62, coming to Finland vie "TESA dae Kactrap’ and Stoczkole bs air en 27 Jul 62 (eic). He had met hie . friend Eeloyra in Stockkols, eavdwaconh, here with hin. EKech tooz a a room at the Eleus Eurki Rotel and froz there, due to @ roo ehortece,. had te rove on 31 Jul 62 to the Rotel Ferho. Foch told the ease Be eee a Story, that Eeloyra_ dia concerning the rest of the cetter. : ae rock. Wee ériving the + Volkc¥egen which he had berreved. e rom 8 ar
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