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14-00000 ST a er em ii rma SER ERLAT . i a a 3 ta wwe © ~ ete Varese ACARALLEROSS Mexicans vorks for-Bellas Artes, relative of -~. | : of oe - Ane lie. ite citeu Ba TILLO. -Ledon. a, Culgurel Aid Aide to “Mexican” Presiden: o . a en Mexican President! | Adolfo LOPEZ Mateos. ek Felintive: of his is known Boy to_bav have vi ‘Visited: Cuban an Embasdy. ‘Eraile’ ‘SABREU, informant of Raul 1 APARICIO, Cuban- Embassy official . b Weta sks ¢ ey Robert - 4 Pigxs¢ a ~ cone Drees es SNDERSON, . Aan American WE 6. visited ¢ Cuban ‘Embassy on 29 June. _ pa errr Admitted he was Communit officer r of intelligence service at C07 3B Pedi CG RPeto OB cee a 1 wee te tnt pe ee — we ete eee vee a - - 5 : : wee a — ~ . ~ - : ‘ i eee ae _ ner 7 we ee re - A i 4 ~ = - -% ¥ - - ¢
Eom a ret Ay AIOE at a. tooo . i, . ee to tom -_o% ao pee trea eee amore steams eat neh Laan a at Fn ht eat ec mecame ance b ae ten enenens come eine a 1 -e ~ MEMORANDUM POR THE RECORD os So "| FROM - s. Lawrence F. Barker : SUBJECT + Meetings with Litas on 23 June 196 ol” : 2M Wh | 7 S July 196h s 6 July 1964 ie A two-hour meeting was held with Le : in Bs car on the night of 23 June. L-9 reported as foliowss & APARICIO 4s still quite juxpy as a result of the recent adverse (Station placed) publicity he received in the press . . in connection with ths Berta ORTEGA de ARROYO case, Qn 12 at ' June Le? answered the phone when someone called up inquiring’ “ for APARICIO's home phone nixber -- APARICIO refused to let at» the number be given out util he was sure of the caller, He nn has not acted this-way in the pasts; appears to be a bit "gun shy." be ‘On 12 June Le? overheard Dra, MAGEADO talking about the dangers of doing favors for people wishing to get out of Cuba «=» she said . that this is a géod way to land in Guanacabibes (Govt corresticn cazp) and said that her ows brother wanted her to try to get him Mexican transit visa So he “could get out but that she refused te help him, ~ ”, ¢. There was no staff meating on Saturday 13 June. Los : —_- co 2 = ~ d, AMSTETe«] appears to be quite thin after his retumn fraz Merida, SEP ®, Federico ALVAREZ, sho works In tha Cormercial Departaent, is married to a daughter of Max AUS, ALVAREZ seemed to be very exeited about the impending arrival of the new Commercial ~ Counselor == Camilo DOMENECH, He was unusually nervous, appéared to be anxious to please his new boss, L-9 reported that ALVAREZ at one time lived in Cuba for several years, £. Cn or about 13 dume a man nazed_Cleto SOIELLO,. a Mexican cottca technician froa Monterrey, visited the Exbassy to see about a visa for travel to Cuha, This man has been in Cuba before. Qa ul = a i. 9 it ¥ z 8» On 13 June a bushy haired Cuban exiie in an old medal black Snick sedan stuck his head out of his car and said a few sharp worms to Le9 on the street, beginning with "You are no Cuban, you $0.3." Le9 gave the Incident no further thousht, (This ties in wtha ° report from LITAMTL=}3 to darker to the eflect that a Cuban exile mamed ROSSEUL had told hin be had insulted Le? on the street and planned to xiii him «= ROSSELL's idea was to begin kijiins the Exbassy staff one at a tine, Le3 told hin that Le? is a "paricon" and an artist, an idneTfectusl rerson, that killics Kia would te like killins a woman, and thes fy sSeL should devote tis attention to mors donzerous ‘people, 2 2 esreed, Thus Leg did & good job of protecting Le3. Ee Suse told ROSSELL that LeS had pers ae one ~ =f PSoTg. =) d be id “SECRET 40 6105/4 fer, S964 Pay Ae as Bek mamas 4 aa
de ke 1. Be Ge been ‘eebd ¢ to ij % _ despite. their Solitical differences Ke would hate to see any harm.cone to 1-9)" . . CO “On 1$''dune Canilé DOMENECH was throwing his weight around the ‘ Exbassy and Jetting” it be know that he was Guillermo: RUIZ¢ - ag 5-3, when he-was 3 hozpitalized and that replacesent. Of 15 June Virzilio: “CABAL LERO who works for Horacio FLORES - “ Sanches at Serias Artes was at the Exbassy, He is related to a Amalia “CABALLERO de CASTILLO Ledon who functions asa "Cultural _~ @ resicen HaAleOS@ “ ‘On 15 June L-9 overheard someone announce that a man named Alfredo RODRIGUEZ had arrived to visit APARICIO, On 16 June a Swede who speaks some Spanish waa with APARICIC, On 16 June Feregrina ALOUSO, the Anb's secretary, was walking by L=9!3 office —“L-9 engaged her in conversation and asked , her if she had decided to leave the chancery and work with : hin, She seit, seriously, "If I return to Mexico (from Cuba) eet) I hope it will be to work in the Cultural Section.” Cn 16 June 4U2NETSOV of the Soviet Embassy was at the Embassy, dealing with Cscar. OONCEPCION, presuzably about shipment of a Soviet art exhibit from Mexico to Cuba, an The night of 16 June there was a srall private dinner party ; : at the Enbassy, L=9 was not invited and had no more detail, ; On 17 June APAZICIO told L-9 that Mthey® want to burn hin (A) in Mexico ~--this in reference to the recent press attack on APARICIO, (Le? suvcested that it might be a good idea to spread the story that APARICIO is living in unusual lucury in Moxico whadle the neosle of Cuba sweat in the cane fields, Le9 pointed : out that APARICIO has sone dining roon furniture that has larze, ostentatious ninzes on it which ars apparently silver plate but : which could be called sterling silver, de also has wall toe wall ; ; ‘carpeting in ris hone end these carats could natanormpnose inte : "luxurious rugs" for provaganda purposes, ney point to be made ‘ would be that LPARICIO is not living as a good socialist shouid to ‘ live and that nis avparent «wealth should lead credence to earlier : stories to the effect that he is a smucgler, It is interesting to ses Lad skewing sone initiative in this ratter), ; On 19 June 1-9 saw Victor LOMELI at the airport -. heard that Seana CAST.0 would be coming in the next day end would be staying about a menath, visiting her sistex aay LOLLI's wife, On 19 June L-9 overheard milo ‘Sg: Sy teli APARTCIO that he sheuld be very cares in dealing with "Ruth," a tail American wacan who formeray lived in Guatemala, (Le9 said that her full name and other informatien would be in the files since Shryock was quite interested ja this worn).