(ro4-t0186-10267] A: tts . a . Ch RETURN T6 61 « ' oe Background sep . Do Not Reproduc CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY \ Tite material contains information affecting the Rational Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Eepionege Lawa, Fitte 18, Vac. Sece TO] and te4, the tranemiasion of revelation of which in aay manner to an uneuthorized persun fe prohibited bylaw, SECRET NO FOREIGS DISSEM country Cuba Report NO. CSC 1-316 /00701-64 suwect Antonio CARCEDO Ferrer pate pista, 32 ‘August 1964 nNo.paces 3” ; REFERENCES - Yecuington, dD. ¢. _bate aca, Atigua’” 1964 FIELO REPORT NO. THIS 3S UNEVALUATED (IMFORMATION. SOURCE GRAGINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF COMTEMT 8% TENTATIVE, source, A former Cuban IS officer who served witn the Cuban Inteltigence Service until April 1964. , we, Headquarters Comments The following report is one of a series containing personality information provided by the seurce and includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency. It is requosted that the address.cs take no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first checking with this Agerey. . Source was shown a copy of the Hoy newspaper article on the Marcos RODRIGUEZ case. In screening the text of the article he commented on Axt¢:ie CARCEDO Ferrer, pseudonym “Andres,” “whe was one of the witnesses at the trial. Source said that CARCEDO was a translator for the Department of Information Services (SI) in the Direccion General de Inteligencla (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI). Source added that CARCEDO will probably go to Prague shortly as the liaison officer hetween the DGI and Czechoslovakian Security. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 Headquarters Comments readquarters Lomments 1. An air passage list revealed that one Antonio CARCEDO . Ferrer, born 29 January 1931, in Habana, Cuba, arrived in “ Paris on 13 September 1952, enroute to Prague via Brussels. He was described as a student. ; : 2, A report dated 9 December 1952, from a usually reliable ' source, said that Antenio CARGEDO, the yaofing Communist student of the school of Arts and Sciences at the i Uniyérsity of Habana, bad recently returned from Bucharest, | S E c R E T Gaur b XO FOREIGN .DISSEM poe dorinbeotes bre nO GS oe Gn / Note. Field disteibution ladicoted by “#) State. «| uta _ I ARMY T wavy 7 alg NSA | MKEXX i omer REP CINCLANT CINCSO # I&NS __. iMate. Fi Te te eg I HAMAVE a OO a frorees WU/SA 7 (1), WE L (2), Ci 4, RID L{stsison se
SECRET - 0 FOREIGN DISSEN =e where he had reoresented Cuban students at the Congress of the International Union of Students (CIUS). A tairly reliable source, in’a report dated 25 May 1955, stated that Andres CARCEDO, possibly identical with Antonio CARCEDO, was an active Juventud Socialista Popular (Cuban Communist Youth Organization-JSP) member. He is described as young, stall considered in the informative years, not yet well indoctrinated, but enjoys considerable confidence of the JSP leaders. , An untested source, in a report watea °S July 1955, stated that Antonio CARCEDO was an active JSP member. In a 21 December 1955 report, a usually reliable source gave the fcllowing information on Antonio Francisco CARCEDO Ferrer: --- CARCEDO was born in Habana, Cuba, on 29 January 1931, to Leocadio CARCEDO Saavedra and Ana Celia FERRER Gener. Their is..re:s was Calle Figuras No. 370, altos, between Esperanza an: Gloria. CARCEDO was single and in his. thira year ae 2% five year course at the School of Agriculture at the University of Habana. - He has three 1 brothers: Aldo, born about 1941, is a student at the F Colegio San Alejandro, Habana; Sergio, born about 1938, is a student at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios, Habana; and Leocadio, married to Sonia VALDES y Noa, is a mechanic. CARCEDO told source that ideologically he is an enthusiastic Communist and is a member of Juventud Socialista (Cuban Communist Youth Organization ~- JSP). CARCEDO said that he has never belonged to the National Pro-Peace Committee, He studied. five years at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios; in 1952 he attended the Staceut Consress held in Bucharest, Rumania, as a representative of the students of that school. an untested source, in a report dated 23 November 1956, stated that Antonio Francisco CARCEDO Ferrer is one of the four most active leaders of the JSP at the University of Habaua. In August 1958, a representative of this Agency showed several sources a photograph of Antonio CARCEDO Ferrer. The: source identified the person in the photograph as beins the same individual who transited Quito, Ecuador, in December 1957 and who identified himself as being Raul Eloy FERNANDEZ Saenz. FERNANDEZ Saenz is also known as Raul E. FERNANDEZ and possibly is identical with Roberto FERNANDEZ, aka Roberto RIVAS. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM
9. 10. il. 12. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM «3. In a report dated 26 February 1959, it was reported that Antonio CARCEDO, probably identical with Antonie Francisco CARCEDO Ferrer, the Cuban Communist Party Youth Leader, had reservations from Habana to Lisbon on 27 February 1959, from Lisbon to Amsterdam on i March. 1959 and from Amsterdam to Vienna on 2 March 1959. His passage had been paid through to Mexico. (This travel was verified by airline manifests included with later reports.) In. a 30 April 1959 report, a usually reliable source identified aphbtographs of Raul Eloy FERNANDEZ Saenz and Antonio CARCEDO Terrer as being identical with the person known as Robert RIVAS. On 11 March 1960, a local Habana newspaper (name not given) announced that Antonio CARCEDO was made Secretary of Propaganda of the First Latin American Youth Congress. A usually reliable source, in a report dated 6 March 1961, reported that Antonio CARCEDO Ferrer was in Moscow for the First World : mS to be held there in late July or early August 1961. ore airline’ manifests revealed the following travel by CEDO? Habana to Mexico - Li Aprtl 1961 Mexico to Santiago - 13 April 1961 Santiago to Montevideu - 24 April 1961 Montevideo to Copenhagen ~ 27 April 1961 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM