rr ‘RETURN TO CIA a Porae. sot . ee Use ae oe _.. JQ: Not. Rep roduce. CENTRAL .INTELUGENCE AGENCY Zais matertel somtalas informations affecting the Mettouai Defense of the Unites guatée within the.meantag.ef the Seploneas La: a Tac. Secs, 183 ahd TO, the transmission of revelation of which in ang sisnsied to en wactincind doen poate Shoe: SECRET NO FOREIGN. DISSEM - coutyCuba rerOiy wo. CSCI-31G/O08HLUE4- sunlicr Jose POSADA Torres DATE oF 1964 INFO. ‘ace 4 Washington, D. C. OATE ACO.August. 1964 THis 1S UNEVALUATED - INFORMATION. FIELD REPORT NO. TQURCE GRADINGS ARE-DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF Commtnt cy TENTATIVE. SOURCE: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964, Headquarters Comments: ° : rf 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. Jose POSADA Torres, pseudonym “Calixte,” is the Cuban Consul at Tampico, Mexico, We is an officer of the Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI). POSADA was originally agsieged to Vera Cruz, dat . was reassigned to Tampico. “e Headquarters Comments 1. When the source of the above information was queried concerning proof of POSADA's association with the DGI and the Cuban Intelligence Services source said he had . no documentary proof. However, he said he knew of ' POSADA's affiliation from his own trip to Mexico, from ‘ observations at the DGI Headquarters, and from general sheptalk, 2. A fairly reliable source in a report dated 20 June 1962 provided positive adentification of Cuban G-2 sgents abroad. Included on the list for agents in Mexico was 3 one (fna) POSADA, the Cuban Consul in Vera Cruz. POSADA | : was described as having been born about 1936, five feet 4 3 2 SECRET “ee a i NO FOREIGN DISSEM setentonen a (Note: Froid distribution indicated by “#”.) | Navy aa NSA HEXX 1 oce REP CINCLANT CINCSO # I&NS | LENS T635 PL CI/BRA ISTE | NO PROJECT? AMMUGYL' | 71S; | .CSCI~316/00684-B4 OLwave lw wenn Wl BRE. “WH/SA 7 (1), WE 1 (2), CI 4, RID1 en * ; wax : ED eshic
| sont cee ame + Gee se ant ote Bene Meee soe ee ee te erm cane 6 5.. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEX eight inches tall, having brown hair, &@ thin broan mustache, and being obese. This same source in a@ report dated 4 July 1962, added the following information. POSADA also has jurisdiction over Isla Muheres where ({nu) MONES, an old time G-2 member, is stationed. POSADA weighs about 180 pounds, has a white complexion, and is very careless in his dress. A report from a usually reliable source dated 27 July 1962, ‘stated that the Cuban Consul in Vera Cruz, Mexico, is Jose Luis ‘POSADA. Information dated July 1962 revealed the following information on Jose L. POSADA Torres; Assigned to Vera Cruz in Decenber 1960, POSADA is reportedly also engaged in the distribution of propaganda and the supervision of the Cuban espionage service in Mexico. He has been identified by a source of undetermined reliability as either a member of the Communist Party or a party adherent. He is known to have been in contact with General Eeriberto Jara Corona, former president of the Mexican Peace Movement, a Communist-front organization. POSADA reportedly spent two years training in Moscow. It was reported on 14 June 1963 that Jose Luis POSADA, the Cuban Consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico, was departing for Cuba on 28 June 1963. SECRET. NO FOREIGN DISSEM