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14-00000 hy Ott i esaia SAA TERME RE ELE I BY a rn yO etme arts TS i ad MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD | -@ Sate ° . . oN a ‘CONFIDENTIAL/NO FOREIGN Di oSEM 11 August 1969 FROM: Army Representative SUBJECT: 1. Interview with Cuban Emigre Guillermo GONZALEZ . Saavedra 2. Partial Biographical Data Major Victor DREKE Cruz i. On 31 July 1931, and 4 August 1969, Guillermo GONZALEZ Saavedra (cc 4113) a 3l-year old Cuban emigre who arrived in Madrid, Spain, on 19 June 1969, was interviewed in Madrid, Spain, and stated substantially the following: He was born in Central Fidencia, Placetas, Las Villas, Cuba, on 8 June 1935. He has a sixth grade education. In 1957, he joinea the 13 of March Movement, and became the aide of Major Rolando CUBELA Secades at the Escambray mountains, Upon the overthrow of - Batista in 1959, he continued as aide to Cubela with the rank of Captain of the Revolutionary Army. In May 1960, he was assigned Chief of the Transportation Repair Shop, Zone H~-7, Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA), located in San Jose de Las Lajas, Havana. In January 1961, he was apprehanded by the Cuban authorities, and charged of cooperating with a counter-— revolutionary movement headed by ex-Cuban Major Cesar PAEZ. Though Source indeed sent weapons to Paez, he denied it, and the Cuban authorities could not prove Gonzalez connection. with the Paez movement. He was released from jail in May 1961 and he was reassigned to INRA, San Jose de Las Lajas, but was not appointed to a specific job. In August 1961. he was approached by Major Enrique OROPEZA who offered him a job with the State Security Department (DSE). His first assignment was to infil. trate a suspected counterrevolutionary organization being formed by personnel of the Transportation Repair Shop, INRA Zone 8.7, Oropeza said that he ‘was ideal for the assignment because he has just been released from prison, and the counter- Fevolutionaries would have confidence in hin. Source did not accept Oropeza's Proposition, and in turn warned the members of the Transportation Repair Shop. From August 1961 to April 1962, he was Chief of discipline of Hermano Gomez Technical School (former Belen College), Havana. In December 1961, he was discharged from the Revolutionary Army, but continued to 'WOrk, as a Civilian, in the same. positicen. From April 1962 to December 1962, he was Chief of discipline of Havana University students dormitories which was located between 12 and Walecon Streets, Havana. Fron February 1963 to June 1964. he was the Administrator (Administrador) of a pre-medicine course which teat eee ee LON = +P Gap 5° 0 TS) eae Sremennen Acanen caememnettennii netentneny ei nth tamer A rae + nie ne eens rpeneepne ning $ret se penetra = Seep ane NET eee oleae 3 ater te matin area etete ee Leahy are 0 Ea
14-00000 L he eer, eae ee : . , si. CONPIDENTIAL/NO. FOREIGN pPrssey - - . my * .° . . - : ~2. was being conducted at buliding “Sonellan", 17 and 0 Streets, Vedado, Havana. From August 1964 to September 1966, he was Paymaster of the construction projects at Ciudad Universitaria “Jose Antonio Echevarria, Marianac, Havana, In 1965, he divorced his wife Zenaida ARCE Fernandez who is living at 35-25 164th St., Flushing, New York, and whom he re«married by proxy on 6 April 1969. Upon divorcing ARCE, Source moved to Cubela's home, 38 Street, Havana (exact address unknown), where he lived until Cubela‘s arrest by theCuban authorities for Plotting to kill Pidel CASTRO. On the day in which Cubela was arrested Source Was managing a kiosk (a temporary hut in which people are sold drinks during Carnivals) at a Carnaval in Havana, and did not Sleep at Cubela's house. When he returned to Cubela's house he learned from Cubela'ts mother, Virginia SECADES, that Cubela had been arrested and that the house had been searched by the Cuban police. Other persons which were apprehended for Plotting, with Cubela, against the regime, were Ramon GUIN,: Alberto Blanco, (FNU) GALLARRETA, and two unidentified Cubans. (Source denied having any knowledge of the plot, though he Suspected that some- thing was B0ing on). Source was never interrogated by the police on Cubela's Plot, but noted that he was being followed by DSE agents. Prior to Cubela's a j and Efigenio ALMEJEIRA, two or three times a week, visited Cubela and engaged in Private talks in the private talks between Chomon, Almejeira and Cubela. The last time he talked to Chomon was On 24 December 1965, when Source made a Social visit to Chomon at his house in El Vedado (address unknown), accompanying Cubela and Guin. Politics was mot discussed during the occasion. Gonzalez attended Cubela's trial accompanying Cubela's mother, Source could not provide details of the Proceedings other than Saying that “the Cuban authorities knew everything about the plot" Cubela made about a one-hour long Speech on his behalf; in his speech he . admitted he had had a meeting in a hotel in Madrid with ARTIMES ( fou) a Cuban exile, Alberto Blanco, and ROBENXO (fnu), alias "El Mago," a Cuban exile residing in Barcelona, Spain, who “everyone in Cuba knows he is ‘working for the CYA; but that the meeting was very Vague and that the attempt to kill Castro was not going to be pursued. Cubela also admitted having a Weakness for drugs. In the Same trial Roman Guin admitted Plotting against Castro and divulged the name a CIA agent who had contacted him in Havana (n unknown). About four months after Cubela's trial visited Major Victor DREKE at his home, (Source has met Dreke in 1957, when both da El Escambray). He told Dreke that he by DSE agents. Dreke told Gonzalez that the matter with Jose ABRAHANTES, Chief of the DSE. Since Gonzalez visit to Dreke, Source did not notice being surveilled. During the first quarter of 1966, Source met at a party, Mirtha PEYROT Alfonsos, a female 39-year old Uruguayan doctor Heart — Specialist, who was under contract with the Cuban Government. ee 4 me om ts Taare oe leet dentinm ee feb ath tee toe AT enna eet pgnne Gees center . TET ate emt meee Bers n wee o - Source never Participated ~-~---- a % . : =) rn . Lo So, , j A : , e 7 . : * : were 8 ce De ee ewe tween ne crores carctagends, oe SS eae Gere Wennee xirdiens tse: tem bats eRAP SR nea we = see tome hase ones east eemarecaiswt ? 4 r L to eye re ty 4 Fo ee ett pe ai deale Sif Faecal totem Seam ene bon, { ws thlew meetin ene By cor enter + etamene pecan tater tnemet wy Teen vt ipeveien snore meen Nem Pe eieeee ane Oct ee ny spenerenre rene: Armen none sO ENE HPO present gene foresee: vtemesngune 1 7 aoa ema ena tune ae
metre Lape gr ieteme rg Te ee my me ue ret ors an or pte mt pee OR ee ee ge eae e . . oo, Te _ . 7 ow ‘ se CONF IDENTIAL/XO FOREIGN D. SEM “ . . t -~3 - | | Gonzalez thought of an opportunity of leaving Cuba with the help of Peyrot. He married Peyrot two or three munths after they first met. Peyrot made an attempt to get an Uruguayan visa for Gonzalez, and in her attempt she made a long distance telephone call, to Uruguay, to an Uruguayan doctor named Carmen : (inu), who Peyrot claimed was the personal doctor of the Uruguayan Minister of Interior. Peyrot also told Source that Carmen was : the one who got her into accepting the Cuban contract. Failing to get an Uruguayan visa for Gonzalez, Peyret opted for paying : Gonzalez airplane fare te Madrid. Source had limited knowledge of Peyrot's background. She had been in Cuba from 1963 to 1964. Gonzalez became suspicious that Peyrot was cither working for | the Cuban intelligence or the CIA, when‘she began asking him | captious questions about himself. In public, openly and unafraid, she expressed disaffection toward the Cuban regime. At an | occasion, she suggested to Gonzalez, that once he arrived in H . Spain, to contact Robeno "El Mago", in Barcelona, and to join i - him in working for. the CIA, .Six months..prior to her departure from Cuba Peyrot visited, two or.three times a week, an office. i ' of an alleged Brazilian dentist, that was ‘located in a building } in front of El Hotel Capri, 2ist Street, Havana. Source never met the Brazilian dentist. In November 1968, Peyrot supposed : ; te have left Cuba for Uruguay via Mexico. Source, and other Co. - a unidentified friends, who went to the airport to say good-by ee a ‘ to Péyrot the day she left Cuba, did not see her,taking the , Mexico airplane flight, though the passengers were easily. distinguished when they were entering the airplane. Shortly after Peyrot left Cuba (date unknown), Gonzalez divorced her on the grounds of default. (Field Comment: Source had a : . difficult time remembering the dates in reference to his _ personal history. He seemed to be anxious) to cooperate, and .gaid that he was going to write to his present wife (now in the U.S.), and ask her to send him a copy.of his divorce papers, in order to confirm some of the dates. which he was not sure of. ' It is interesting to note that a Myrta TETJEIRO, an Uruguayan doctor was te 8S, Julio RIVAS Delgado (see Memorandum for . . Reet A= Rem Al tte mee, the Record to CAS, dated 20 November 1968, paragraph 22), where Rivas stated e has visited the Cuban Embassy in Madrid at approximately the same period Mirtha PEYROT left Cuba. Though it may be coincidental, it is probable that Mirtha Peyrot and Myrta Teijeiro are the same person. ‘Source did not divulge any information on his past associations:with Mirtha’ Peyrot in his initial interrogation at the Cuban Reception Office (ORC), because he was afraid of discussing sensitive matters with the ORC interrogator. He stated that he has a seven-year old son ‘4m Cuba, and is afraid that the Cuban authorities may take . Pepraisals by not letting his son exit Cuba if they, the Cuban ey authorities, would find out that he has brought the subject of , Peyrot to the attention of the Cuban interrogator at. the ORC. . a Source stated that he is willing .to cooperate in any way possible i he a ree went nee mtenneaanensti sein sient eternity mnimnsenthesnt imine me mmeeninnininn tee ee . ert. e oan Aer ee Speer earn 4 + Sere aial n ete eR RRO TEER A OF aoe aes ~ . ‘ Ahaha Set ntertpementanurnanabacle 6 . eke dee eepaneetto® Soe ciecten pan ote ptt ee meaner a oe gente ee batt ot etterinetets ans . RODS Oe ERIN tt tO I eT eet StL nn Aart eh NT sie wanted tat EES ne Rita A Breit ods if a ~ Rint patermmencaprentinissenene = i. ethan,
14-00000 SPY CERERSE ner AD tee teense wee #4 tetnineat + emcee enmenege x ‘ erence nace Re In, . oe, | oo = legals seeatepete 2 pee - ee em oe *\"CONFIDENTIAL/NO FOREIGN 13SEM £ Pw eee _ wo 4. a “with the U.S, intelligence services should his services be required.) data TO AES, ESP TET oe nnn as a ne arm ete at nes genie mires cot teed eon mE Lee gt ne even mt mmrterte sneaaey mune are = 2. Gonznloz provided the following partial biographical of Major Victor DREKE Cruz: Major Victor DREKE Cruz was born into a poor negro family in Sagua La Grande, Las Villas, Cuba, in 1938 or 1939. In 1957, he joined the 13th of March Movement, and became one of the personal aides of former Major Rolando CUBELA Secades; Upon the overthrow of Batista. in January 1959, he returned to live with his family in Sagua La Grande. In 1960, Cubela convinced Dreke to join the Cuban Revolutionary Army (FAR). Dreke joined the FAR with the rank of Captain, and was assigned commander of a unit located near the city of Cienfuegos. Dreke led an Army unit against counterrevolutionaries in the Escambray in 1961. In 1963, he was appointed Chief of Guerrilla Warefare of the FAR general Staff: As of May 1969, he was Chief of the Political Committee of the FAR General Staff (Source Comment: He obtained the information from Captain Julio MARTI, an acquaintance, in a conversation that took place when Source and Marti °- casually met on a bus in Havana in May-1969: Marti also told Gonzalez that Major Julio GARCIA Oliveras (who was e an Ambassador to Nort let-Nam) was the secon h command o e vo aca Oommlttee. arti also. stated. a e, mselft, was a member o @ committee.) Dreke is considered a Fidelista rather than a Communist. He - is intelligent and very brave. He was described as . Negro, 5'5" tall, 125 pounds, siender build, black kinky hair, abnormal large head. He is living with his wife (name unknown), and two daughters at Alturas del Nuevo Vedado, near the: Havana Zoologic.. Park, Havana. ; . greeny 8 eeeepegs pe een 1 Age ST Mhsahete dase eablliee felande now Fe mr anemermeante eyenny Hee see peeeeee hate ere age tne wa beeprwn gest bh st at oon anyad o 2 aetanigg maps eet eee tn