a ‘ 14-00000 cececare queen qmanNE eh A CE TD SO A ae ee nee cco jpouatl dee cee meni rmeripante nen scent wg Toe gene inne -expected degree behind CHAVE?, student animosity and political prossure | of tho PCM, (37) We has aiso been, and may possibly st4li bo, a membor _game time he was a tax collector for the Treasury Department of the State SECRET - | : 7 5 visited the USSR as a member of the Mexican Commission «° Nuclear Lnergy. (24) In 1964 MONTANO was in contact with Maria isther CHAPA Tijerina (2U1-07016), a former KGB agent who was at that time in contact with the Chinese Communists in Mexico City. (29) (COMRLNT: Maria CHAPA was also in con- tact with Ignacio ACOSTA Lagunas (201-108907), (See Item 15 C 5), 3) Dr. Ignacio CHAVE2 Sanchez (20]-068519) i , DPOB; 31 January 1897, Zirandaco, Michoacan, Mexico. . ' Dr. CHAVEZ is a prominent Mexican physicie., leftist sympathizer, 4 and Soviet medical advisor in Mexico City. From 1949-61 he was Director of the National Institute of Cardiology. In 1953 he headed the Mexican delegation to the Communist-inspired World Medica] Congz3ss in Vienna, : In 1958 CHAVEZ, with Dr, Carlos NOBLE lloyo (201-96452), attended the i International Cardiology Congress in Brussels, then continued on to visit | Prague, Moscow, and Peking. (27) CHAVEZ was appointed Rector of the Universitario Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in 1961. (28) In his | capacity as Rector, CHAVEZ visited Czechoslovakia as a guest of the i. 7 Ministry of Education, (29) In 1966 CHAVEZ was forced to resign from | bis position as Rector because of political enmities between himself and President Gustavo DIAZ Ordaz. In order to rid himself of CHAVL2, DIAZ had a offered him the ambassadorial post in France. When CHAVEZ refused a split _ 2 “ was provoked, Although the intellectual elite of Mexico united to an un- embarrassed CHAVEZ to the oxtent that ho submitted his resignation, (30) | . oa 4) Demetrio ALNAGUAR Torres (201-133189) Alias "Camaron" DOB: circa 1929 ALMAGUER is a membor of tho Baja California State Committee of the Union Genorai de Obreros y Camposinos Mexicanos (UGOCM), a PCM front-organization, (50) In 1959 ALMAGUER traveled through the rural areas of Moxicali selling clothing and medicines, The lattor were given to him by a modical laboratory for advertialng distribution, (36) At the ne eR ene op = nem: peneeee ttre tetera a emem Stan 6 ME ERR i Sian ocean + RAD ON EITM este + DO of Baja California, (35) 2 ane nore ANTE S| SRBCRET or en
can 4) Ogun trht AOSD HEED "EEERITA GREENS no ENEMA 0 14-00000 he had been in contact with Maria isther CHAPA Tijorina (2013-67016), -6- His freedom of mobility made him an attra- tive recruitment prospect for Subject and KOSTIKOV. In 1964 they authorized him to locate . three Mexican youths to travel and study in the USSR, ALMAGULR contacted Ramon PENUNERE and asked him if he had a son who would meet the necessary qualifications to start preparing for school in Moscow, . (38) 5) Ignacio ACOSTA Lagunas (201-1038907) DPOB: 24 June 1917, Mexico ACOSTA is a former aide of General Lazaro CARDENAS del Rio. In 1960 ACOSTA participated in the Latin American Youth Congress in Havana, In 1961 he attended the Cuban May Day celebration, (31) The ; ‘ following yoar ACOSTA was a member of the Federal District Committee of o the MLN and was active in the preparation for the Continental Congress of Solidarity with Cuba, (32) In 1965 he became a member of the ° Executive Committee of the MLN. (33) ACOSTA claimed to have had dinner . with Che Guevara in October 1965, He reported that Che Guevara had been residing in Mexico for three months incognito and that he was presently leaving for Latin Americs. (33) ACOSTA was in contact with two Soviets in Mexico (excluding Subject) - Yuriy Nikolayevich PAPOROV (201-82485), Known KGB, and Yuriy Konstantinovich ALEKSANDROV (201-262821), Suspect KGB, PAPOROV is prosontly PCS in Havana as @ Nevesti representative, In the fall of 1966 ACOSTA was in contact with individuals of the aw China News Agency in Mexico City, (34) Two years earlier former KGB agent who was at that timo in contact with the Chinese Communists in Mexico City, (32) 6) Pedro Manvel Jesus TERRAZAS Guerrero (201+47282) DPOB; 22 June 1423, Mexico City . TERRAZAS 18 a journalist, primary school teacher, and has been a member of the PCM since 1940, ‘Mo was the Wivrector of Lo Voz de Mexico from 1945-38 whon he wae removed by the PCM Central Committee for his Revistonist activitios, (48) He is a momber of the Party's National Secrotariat, the Prosidium, | ‘and the Polltical Commisason, ”  (48y7 Ae ut 1963 he was a mombor of the National Committes of the MLN and of the Central Campesina Independiente (CCI). (47) He was-one of the chief SECRET
14-00000 SECRET 7. organizers of the Frente Llectoral del Pueblo (FEP), (46) (47) TERRAZAS has been described as "one of the most energetic, aggressive, and dogmatically orthodox cf the PCM's leaders." . (45) He has made numerous trips to the USSR and Bloc countries, Cuba, and has visited Communist China, Ile reportedly was a graduate of -the Navana school for agitation in 1962, (45) In September 1900 he was in tho USSR where he was reportedly to remain for one yoar to attend the CP training school, (49) TERRAZAS supportod the program approved by the Tri-Continontal Ccnference, Havana, 1966, which stressed the need of unity among revo- : lutionary forces to defeat imperialism, if necessary through armed | . revolution, (45) TERRAZAS has been in contact with Narciso BASSOLS (201-56987), suspect Soviet agent, (50) 7) Jose Maria ROURA Covallos DPOB: 28 November 1918, David, Panama, ce guarentee ciamermape ga eo « . ROURA has been a momber of the Communist Party of Ecuador (PCE) since circa 1956, At that time he was a momlor of the PCE Executive | Committee and Secretary General of the Pichincha Provincial Committeo, - In May 1968 ROUPA was arrested while attempting to bring approximately $25,000 into Ecuador from Communist China, - eargte CL (The money was allegedly i ' counterfeit U. S, currency that ROURA had received from the Chinese bak ap etme o- Communists.) The same month he was expelled from the PCL on grounds that he traveied to Communist China without PCH permission, (71) In November 2963 he was oxiled from Ecuador and took up temporary residence with a group of Reuadorean exiles in Bolovia, In the spring of 1964 ROURA was ; ce in Uruguoy, having returnod from Prague, and Communist China where he teportedly received special training. (72) In August 1964 he had roturned to Rcuador and was elected to the Central Committee of the hard-line | oo factiun of. the PCL CECHEVERRIA faction), As of January 1967 ROURA was a f 7 4 mombor of the Secretariat of thin, UCIIVERRIA Caction, (73) op Rs ate. Bubject was in contact with ROURA in Quite, February 1po2, (1) REN BLS BBR GAS HS VANE REE TAS TUES SEE 0 © Spat TESTS Gaba actebali pednagcasererrgaacte enh en TO aro GT PERETTI RD TERED a ee BECRET eo 4
14-00000 S&S ECR E T ~ 8 - . 8) Edmundo JARDON Arczate (20L-162937) DPOB: 153 May 1923, Calimayo, Mexico, JARDON was one of the founders of the Parsido Obrero Campesino Mexicano (POCH) in 1946. He was a member of its National Directorate until 1957 when he voluntarily relinquished his pesition due to a difference of opinion with two other members, (74) He was recruited by WOFIRM in March 1957, but was terminated in June 1958 due to lack of production and his obvious desire to break contact, (74) (75) (COMMENT: Although he was recruited under the guise of working for the International Workers Movement (INM), Jater contact indicated that JARDON suspected he was in contact with a WOLADY Intelligence Service.) (76) In 1961 JARDON becamo Director of Prensa Latina (PL) in Mexico City. In 1967 he was dismissed from this pesition by Orlando FUNDORA Lopez, Cuban General Director of PL. It-is believed that his 7 dismissal was a result of his failure to fully publish the CASTRO tirade against the Venezuelan Communist Party in March 1967, JARDON subsequently ‘, became Director of Politica, which was on the verge of closing down in rn September 1967, again leaving JARDON jobless. i” ed In August 1964 JARDON was reported to be part of a i channel in Mexico City to steer trainees desiring to go to Cuba into courte ope contact with the "right people.” (75) ; - Subject arranged a meeting wits JARION in 19¢2, In Jane sf the same yeer JARDON waa in contact with Teresa PROENZA (261 -291531). (77) (See Item 18 C 9) 9) Teresa PROENZA (201-291531) DPOB: 11 March 1008, llavana, at ue earn excrement tntranaiboranyysntront peg mania cee te cece iA COSTAE STAI * tt SA TUR A ce Teresa PROENZA is a CPC momber, active in Communist front. Mes Jee organizntions, and a strongly suspect Soviet agent. (01) Bren 1984-57 she was socrutary and housekeeper for Uiego ALFARO Rivera, {1 1/60 she . became the Cultural Attache in the Cuban Kimbassy in Mexico City whore ahe handled liaison betwoen the Cuban limbassy and the Workers University of pooe sy pes Mexico (UOM), (61) While in Mexico she was in froquent contac’ with i. i: | | | “7 many OM members und Suviute, ducluding Narciso: BALECLE (ABLE UIOD I pr ee Ignacio ACOSTA (703-108907), Pedro Manuel TERRAZAS Guerrero (1.62 647882), SECRET