AeTION REQUIRED REFERENCES . . . aan ™ GY ROSE/LITAMIL-9 Attached, for addressees, are copies of Subject contact reports dated 3 January, 11 January and 15 January 1963, Attachment: As indicated above. Distribution: - - C/TFW w/att ' Lh - COS/WAVE vwi/att Cota ] 1 ~ C/WHD w/att,-@~ 2 3 - Files oe Chia 3 fi ? “4 bo ' . DATE OrSPATOHED _ ey 22 Jan. 1963 seme eee eee wa, ed arr aM HMMA -~20546 se ow i CLASSIFICATION : . SECRET
wm ON. Hémoraddum for the Record - A a “Subject: ‘LITAMIL9 ” Tan. 962 | OW the morning of 3 Janw 63, I met LITAMIL-9 . _ spot - “at. the usual ren Gezvous | ° BEE and we parked on 4a side- streets” RO OS 7 . Tine — OMEGA } ae mn . SsECuRITY PROBLEMS" ‘NOTES +2 ‘ FER 221971 ; “ i _ ; UITAM TL-9 reported as Pollows? on incre. Leet ° 8 eae amar ae nto oo os At “the. recep per Ke the night | of Spain 43, LITAMIL-9 noted the bo 1 ~ Spaniard = Fore ign Spanier ae be LAY ee at 7- fies. Juin RE Jano oO FEDUCHY eS - Amb Spanish Govt é Extie —~4 a  KGOMEZ Roblec VANECASS fu - Mexican printer « VASEGASY 7”:  Refsel. Fel 13MARCLLANO.c ~Arrgye; ) nce SAINTE A = : First Secretary from French Embassy nnn First , Secresary from Italian Embassy Da, oe DURAN, husband of Silvia DURAN, who was not. ; . there, j : mo Manuel caffato @ Mexian Director of IMCRC oa Zo E-9 said that durirg t "fiesta" JoseLLAGOSTERA told him that i they Embassy received a cable from Havana selling them to be as econ- | ‘omical as possible re reception, The cabe also said that no funds would be forthoming from Havana, that the expenses shorld be taken from local Embassy funds. Nevertheless, DUNIN ofthe Soviet Embassy ‘ Semarked that the fare was plentifil,ddlicious etc. 3. -9 remarked to Teresa PROENZA that he had not seen Manuel TELLO, Mexiean Foreign Minister, and PROENZA replied "Nin~uno de ellos", she 7 then added she had seen a few minor officials, _SADDANA, fnu was the only Mexican Govt official, whom L-9 recognized, lh. Le9 said that he beame friendly with VANEGAS, fnu (Arsacio VANEGAS Arroyo) Cuban printer, whose brother is presently in Cuba working as Chief of a Cooperativa in El Cobre, Oriente, VANEGAS told L-9 that Fidel CASTRO's sister was expected soon from Havana, L-9 commented one . pes Le. ee RE: RECEPTION AT Cyaan <ee.. . Seen ad 7 . . AE 2 . ATTENDED
14-00000 . that she had already been here, referring to Juanita CASTRO, ‘VANEGAS: said not Juanita, but Lidia, VANEGAS then went on to pay _ that Juahta CASTRO crossed the border in the trunk of an aubomoblle. He sata” nothing wore ‘but that it was a miracle that they aid not open the ‘trunk, LITAMIL-9 undestood: VANEGAS to mean that this border crossing’ to plae during her’ reesnt trip to Mexico, (COMMENT: VANECAS - 4 . . ferred ‘to. the 1957 border crossing as. BABXERS reported te a co by ‘AMSTRUT-2. VANEGAS. told Le that he- ‘planned on going to Cuba a L prowbly. | during the next two weeks. Lag said that VANEGAS 14s an intimate frient 5 - of Fidel CASTRO, (COMMENT: LITAMIL~-2 reported that CASTRO fired F ay: VANEGAS from his job in Havana for heavy drinking and he returned to. M }-. x &£W.- F Std (A ge NT OT fexiede ” Ce * z LIT CCEA: ek FiO’ i Ged it & 9. 5. Le 9 and Ramon SINOBAS wee at the airport cn the “Renting of Jaa 32 Jan 62 and saw oft DotoresXp_ EA LA .MORA, DE LA MORA, accordirg to 63 nz Le9 béaame Very- ‘friendlywith him and they had a long chat, He 7 WW told her we would like her to take something to Merceds LECHOUA tut 7 while he was looking for someth'ng at airport, DE LA MORA told him. 4 \y not to bother because she had an extra wrist chain that she would give to Mercedes on his behalf, DE LA MORA told LITAMIL-9 that Pres LOPEZ Mateos 13 always asking | her to tell him more about Fidel CASTRO, She said that she was not going to the Congreso da Kuleres, DE LA MORA said she knows the daughters of the French Military Att ache XEIN PEPIN and that they dé not like to go to Cuba, (COMPENT: Francois. December : and Yvorme PEPIN (Pr.D ert Mexico on 28 Revtons 1963 for Havana.). DE LA 7 MORA told L-9 thab she was leaving Mexico without #EAX her Farents knowing it as they are not in gavor of her friendship with Pidel casTRO, DS LA MORA told Le9 that she woild like him to do a paihting of her which he plans to do upon her arrival from Havana.
. i |. |g | ! etn, - ry 6, Le9 said that he saw a Christmas gredting from Manuel MOR*Kit " Sanbhez on the desk of Ramon SI™OBAS. | To. L-§ said that Maneal- VEGA Pérez, Cuban Ge2, rented a. plane from Mexicana de ‘Aviacion. for: 60,000 pesos. The plane was to ease the load on Hubana re. travel tio Cuba. for hth Annivesary celebrations. . 8. ‘Jorge ROTAS Mendoza told Le9 that the Canadian Pacific Airlines ‘hes made 150,000, U.S,°dollars on Cuban. fares re travel Europes, Sef . « awe . etc. ra Co at: BAICE. cing , ee Re iICAe AETIEITIES seu Gf At ‘the reception, EmmanuelXcarABaLLo told told Le9 that IMCRC fundtions would be getting underway again about 15 Januay 62. He told Le9 that “he was going to do his beat to get away from the sectarismo which was ruining the IMCRC during 1962, Le9 agreed and told CARABALLO that he ‘them had always tried to convince/of thts KAM but they never listened, i.e. thoe running the IMCRC, team at the reception, The "stink bombs” were mentioned in tne front pase story re reception in Excelsior, “Cre: PATENT c MZ eriet f 11, LITAMIL-9 gave me a copy of 's pkise winning play, " Un Pequeno Dia de Ira" This play won the Casa de las Aparicats contest as the best play Bee presented. CARBALLIDO was the only Mexican to win an awards, in fant, the only non-Cuban to win an Reon amar i.e first sees 8 oy foes wag Oe ed in Havana. wet Le9 said that sores ae ROJAS gave mere a letter to deliverto Eusebdio _ ABCUE from Gral. Alberto BAYO Giroud... Ce een ne i att 13, See MEXE oe... dated 3 Jan re L-9's remarks on Otto PETERSON and brother of Celia SANCHEZ, Orlando SANCHEZ, HAWK EXREXE FILE: LITAMIL@9 10, LITAMIL@9 made no comment re "stink bombs” tossed by the LITAINT as eee Ue ede tna: ree