ea 7 La Ante thet cantio Lavery. “ily with a Oubena . . stewardess naacd Pilar (fnu) who wag on a flight. en 4 Jao - . ; of thereabouts, Le? had the feeling: that Pilar has knew Caad i: for a lang tine, ’ 6th Anoiversary of. the ‘Revolution: - he At the reception of Jan ( Shouvboodbar ee, ».L=9 noted: that the Sovieis, who appeared: uO @ Basse, were extremely cordial in their dealings. with bin, At this sane Feception he again saw LIULEOQ-1 and- nade it a pots. talk with her, sea her to the door when she was ready to leave, . C6 She told him she would like to work in the Eabasay and tha: : she had formerly worked as secretary for AMQUACK, The two agreed . . , thet 1+ would be a good idea to get together souctine sooiallys : . -* (LIGLESs version coincided exactly uta tis). 4, After the 4 Jan reception, when all the guests had gone home, 7 STHOBAS and some of the others atarted joking about the names of the ww“ Soviets who had attendsd = they would try to prenounce these names and rearg of langhter would enews, L-? fal} that this vas interest~ ing a3 4 year sgo no-one would have dared nake fum of the Sovivte, ) a go. On 5 Jan Jaime SABINES cama by to see L-9 and to report that he would be going to Cuba as a judge for the literary contest. of the Casa és Las Anericag, ° : k. On & Jan L~9 went to sea the Amb and asked if there wore auy plang fer his, L-9's, transfer, The Amb ssked L-9 why he should ask © guch a question, L-9 amplained that ha was just about to atart work on gome large canvases which would be very difficult to move and expensive to atore == he wanted ta know whether he could plan - om being in Mexico a while before starting this wrk, The 4nb tolt . ' . bia he should by all neans begin the work aa he mew of no plans to transfer L-9, Ca 7 den L-9 went with the Amb and other accredited diplomatic . officers of the Embassy te pay thar respects to CDO, while thay were riding in the Amb!e car the Amb reusrked that word had just been recatved that the nassport of Flamu DIAZ Parrado, long-time -~ Caban diplowat in Parle, had buen cancelled — seaas sho refused , 6O retum to Guba wien reosiled, Alao while in the car Caxilo _ DOMENECS remarked that "it would be disastrouz® if Jose Antoalo HEADEZ wore to come to Maxileo end then refuse to return to Cuba, (Ref Itea 3,0, CR of 6 Jan) On 7 Jan SINOEAS was chewing out Alafandre RODRICUE, accusing kis of act having delivered an inritatios to the i Jan receptian to a certain Ambassador (L<-9 did not know which), Alejandro reacted : sharply to this, said he had delivered tha invitation, and callod 3 SINOBAS geror. He accented this word in such a way as to make it my : a daliberate insult to SIXOMS. The awd compansro de always used ° aeong Exbassy people, . Le¥ bas had the locks on Eis apartaerts door aharged — routine security zeasure, Yo dows not feel tint Ins avarteamt har ever ‘ been eanterei although on two occasieza one of the locka had beam opened o tha one gurplied hy the buildicg. Rig pin tusbler desd "pelt bas apparently gtopped wouldebe intruders. de ka a ee a OME
yeep \ pam yt 5 Several -erscos have recently offered ©. give 1s utures at ena} . . Lo uo Cal - netitute, amohg thes Pulalios ‘an, che art oritdio ‘Crespo se ; da la _ ema, and ( fou} PALOMARES of th _.s6 Martd BFOUPe * . "Be fhe Babassy haa Feceited a complaint that the neteqrelogtoah stajents (becades) are not paying thair billse . | Go fhere 4s an artifical euphoria in tha Eabassy these days = each officer trying te ovtdo the others in showing his conpiecte faith . 7 : dm the revolution — falze amtles and false statarants of confidence, Lo . i ‘L-9 finds all of this quite interdeting and easy to see through bub oo ; bas no explanation for it except as a result of the rather unogual ‘ epeech given by Fidel CASTRO on 2 Jan dn which it secaed that more than ever Cuba must ge at alLonse Fo L-9 recently memrthed a piece ef paper which he turned over to STNOMS om TW Deo (4t was dated 15 Oct 61) and referred to a man named Fred Brooke Smith who at that time wma seeking a medical . scholarship in Cuba, Ha gave his address as San Jeronimo '21<203, Mexico 1, DP. end said that from 19u1 to 19L7 he had been a etudent at the Hargrave Militacy Academy in Chatham, The paper contaiacd no ° arther (gid Le could not renasber anything about Saith. ; At the request of Choaden, Tarker asked L-9 whether he mew anything of plana of Jaime GARCIA Terres to go to Cuba, L-9 replied that he wnew of no such plans and would be surprized to see GARCIA travel as he is not mow tc be a friend of the Cuban revolution, Hoe said that CASCYTA 1s acn-in-law ef Ignacie CHAVEZ of the UHARL Bs Be * %. At the request of the Station's Satellite Section, L=9 ves saked 4f he knew Margarita PAZ Paredes, a Mexican poet, He said ha recegniged ths maze buS could not recall the Individual. By thie weet Bo Le9 reported on Mexican official attendance at the reception of i S ; Jan, This waa relayad to the Enbasay Folitical stion, Hoted were 3 ROSENZWETO Dias, Raul CICERO, (fmu) BERNAL, Ernesto HADERC, and s Horacio FLORES Sanches, ¥ . v, Le-9 turned over the uswal supply of Cuban newspapers apd other 3 publications for JHAAYE, . ; hitch ° 2, Asother cor meeting wa held a the aight of 18 Jen. L«? reported es follows: , & Om the Cubans plans of 3 Jan were tyvo vasenese and a aan named - PUTO =. on their way to Jepan to wrk out some sort of fishing agreenent or to consult om Mashing satiers, b, Inilay PHOMPSGN arrived on the 8th of lanisry — spoke with L-? and the results were forwarded in FIA fara te kgs, a ‘@, On 1 Jan L-9's contacts in the Anthreguilazy Musewa finally came . across with information he had requestss of thea (sea previoun GRia), He eent this on to LECHUGA in Fslwtae - dé. On 12 Jan Le? discovered that views had been issued to Fargarita PAZ Paredes, Ernilo ALRZU, and Jaime HW .VKES ~~ all going to Cuba as judgsa in the literary "contest of tae Sasa ds las Anericas. , (itea cont'd)
Jo ke Be Sibser lef. . qnised that Margsrita PAZ i. wre ‘ef Eratlo AGU. (Re, ted to Stetion Satellite Seoti... ~ see item 1,t, above) SIMCHAS ip "always with” a new officer who. dust arrived recently oa short fellow with blud eyes, L-9 did net have the nane yet. This men works in the Consulats, (Must be ABREU or CTRESLO). Gn U: Jan a Venezuelan named. Fumondo ARAT and his wife Sonia ATPAREN do ARAT came to the Bubasay <~ returned again on 1E Jang ARAL claims to have bem. invited to attend the judging of tho literary contest. of the Casa de les Americas but did not have Bia invitation with him; He was being given the stall treataent pending word from Habana; Le9 wanted to cable Habana vight away bub - SDOMS decided to wait a while, @ On 1b Jan pemaission wis received by L<9 to export the zapota statue to Cube. (LEEW IOE and LIOMEN both covered his efforts to get the permit), Le? feals that LITAMIL-7 ia acting a bit strange, almest ccnspira- torial, and suggested that Farker might hevs « way to tell her to act more naturally. B said, "I have never ssen the lady ani heve no contact with her.” L-9 obviously knows of her collaboration, Three sugar technicians arrived on 16 Jan =- fros the Ministry of. Sugar, They are being sqwired around by DOMENECH and plan to visit Mexican sugar silis, “ona of then, a mulatto named Ariel VFRA, Enow Le9Jia brother in Cuba and passed on the brother's best regards, Tha grow will. be in Maxice about 2 weeks, On 18 Jan an Aserican named Alan OINSEERO went to Cuba to «st ea a fudge in the literwy contest,. (This wee reported to Hag on the basis of LIFIRE info). un 18 Jan a Colorbian painter naged Carlos GRANADA case tc tha Bab, Ee is going to Cubs to exhibit some of his paintings dwt -1..ey have not showed up in Maxico <= were sent by AVIAnTi, ‘The Enba-sv waa wmable to shed any light on the whereabouts of his paintdinise On 18 Jan s "Chilean Ambassador” callod L-9, acid he was staying at ne Hotel d'alarcon, wag planning to go to Cuba, LoS suggested he ell the Ambaseder's office, (Later info on this man was developed from other sourcas), 02 18 Jan (fou) POPOCA, Cocuunist who often visits the Eabcesy, gaid he wanted to go to Cubs to etuly, he ie free NY Mexico and bas & brother who is « mediums ranking officer in the Mexican 4 my, ~ Embassy pote Nuaber 175 was sent to Kadena regarding this -equest, Cm 16 Jan Bienvenido GARCIA and Teudi UTTER, Coban daleg: - 38 to the UN ware at the Ertassy, L-9 wes ta take thea to the Ar-rican Embassy the next worming to get thelr tlsas. In respomte to Barker's inguiry (aimal um evential reeruitrent), Le9 reported that tha maid at the Rabat Sra. CAMACHC, sifa of (fau) CAMACHO who lives at the Cultcrni hastivute. Sr, GAUCHO acta as night watchuan at the Exbassy. Hig wite 2s from Jalisco, ig tall and thin, She probedly has access td tho Ambia affice) leo. a foot rey