Doc ID: 6598266 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : DatTeE:01/24/98 P 1 AGE: JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION NSA a 144-10001-10174 RECORDS SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM : ——.__TITLE 2x/o| _|T1663-66 DATE : PAGES COMMENTS RI NG AGENCY’ b(iii) : X : 07/01/97 § DETERMINATION REQUIRED 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) [R] Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note) NSA/CSSM 123-2, Dated 3 September 1991 Source Marked "OADR" Dated 3 September 1991 _[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED . Derived From: Declassify On:
ent ( * Boc 1D: 6598266 6. of _|r1663-66 IS 03 Jun 1955z Pp Dist: HCF 0/15748-66 °, SPANISH COUNSELOR IN HAVANA DECLARED PERSONA NON GRATA 28 May 66 ON == 4 " TAUSCAIOT ENG OND) - 7 . ; b (iii) = I am transcribing below, for your information ‘and for a OS appropriate purposes, the text of the note delivered this porning, Saturday, to the Spainish Embassy in Cuba, "Havana, 28 May 1966 "Charged d'Affaires: "I have the honor of addressing you on a ‘hatter which: the Government. of Cuba considers of the BEMeSE _ importance ‘and gravity,. GROUP i EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC Pelt te DOWNGRADING AND DE CLASSIFICATION ee pace___l of 12. PAGE(s) | — Ss ye - . Las “9-246. ~i A a us - off “iW wn cocten Joueeeee - occ : ia oo. 44052107 (6)(9)(2)(0) INDEXED PAGE____J__of 12 pacets Released on 11-02-2017 under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2017 Note)
ge A - Doc ID: 6598266 2x/0f __}r1663-66 (iii) 0/15748-66 Since it deals with crimes that have been committed and activities. that have been carried out against the integrity and Stability © of the state by Mr. JAIME CALDEVILLA YOGARCIA“VILLAR, Press. _ Counselor of the ‘Spanish: Embassy, who intolerably abused the diplomatic immunity and privileges granted him and used them | for purposes, like those cited, that are very different.from the functions assigned to him, SC "With the purpose of documenting what has already been . indicated, I take the liberty of- informing you below -in detail, of | the charges which have been brought againgt. Counselor. JAIME “CALDEVILLA, proved in an authentic and irrefutable manner, and which compel i us to formally and expressly request his immediate departure. from the country persona non grata, "The main activites of Counselor JAIME CALDEVILLA are directed toward the search, by illicit means, for information of e . pepraperemnny PAGE__2 of 12 — pacets) GROUP 1 : aC Ria Disk: : ' EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC ENED EE Si avmenn dt OUNGRADING AND DECLASSIPICATION : PAGE. 2 of 12 PAGE(S)
- Doc ID: 659826 relations with Mr. PEDRO LUIS BOITELL((A)), ex-President of the 2x/0f___)'T1663-66 ” Pausc2107 G\eyeyb) (iii) + 0/15748-66 military, economic and political nature, the fulfillment of tasks of ideological diversionism and the recruitment of agents and counterrevolutionaries for the: Central Intelligence Agency, tasks in'which he has availed himself of the very close collaboration of his Secretary, Miss CARMEN” JIMENEZ -GOMEZ((A)), _ "Since February 1959, Counselor CALDEVILLA has undertaken the job of recruiting members of the then Rebel Army, among them the . - traitor ALDO’VERA((A)), MARIO” MARRERO((A)), and: AGUSTIN“RARRADA((A)). The latter, once his activities were discovered, found it propitious to flee the country to avoid prosecution, "Along this same line, he also used the aforementioned Miss CARMEN JIMENEZ GOMEZ, instructing her to infiltrate student organizations for the purpose of creating diversionism in the ideological order, and she established, for this purpose, intimate PAGE 3 of 1.2. PAGE(s) GROUP 1. EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION ey PAGE 3 of 12 PAGE{s)
- - Doc ID: 6598266 Jol }ri663-66 b(ii 0/15748-66 University of Havana School of Engineering, When the latter was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment on the Isle of Pines, :. Miss JIMENEZ GOMEZ. went there: and carried out military and political espionage activities, The data and information that she obtained on that occasion were transmitted to Counselor JAIME CALDEVILLA, and included microfilms. . : ‘In February 1960 Counselor CALDEVILLA conceived a plan for an attempt against the life of the then- First Deputy Chairman of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr. ANASTAS MIKOYAN,, a guest in Cuba, for which purpose he delivered arms to-a group: of counterrevolutionarly elements, It was not executed, according ~ to what Counselor CALDEVILLA himself claims, because of the | cowardice of the assassins, He also sought refuge and protection in the home of his collaborator JOSE LUIS” RODRIGUEZ((A)), for Mr. ISRAEL ~ZAMORA-PEREZ((A)), a fugitive from Cuban authorities for plotting an attempt against the life of the Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, Commander RAUL CASTRO RUZ, sy PAGE 4 of, 9 PAGE(s) GROUP 1 | | | EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC WNGRA AD
IT 2x/o]__|-711663-66 “Pausc2107(6yg)\2)D) -— Dbiiii) 1 ee ee c - Doe ID: 6598266 @ 0/15748-66 as well as a plan. to create an incident at the United States Naval _ Base at Guantanamo, Later, Counselor CALDEVILLA arranged for the mentioned ISRAEL ZAMORA .PEREZ to take asylum in the Colombian . Embassy in Havana. . Ca | "In May 1962 he instructed his agents CARMEN JIMENEZ CARCTA and ALFREDO SERRA ECHEVARRIA((A)), an accountant at che Embassy, 4s well as other individuals, to infiltrate different organizations . and offices of the Cuban State, The former went to work in the. . offices of the National College of Architects, where she established contacts with numerous professionals - to induce them to desert, as. _ well as to obtain data and intormation from the Congress of the _ International Union of Architects, where she worked as a simultaneous interpreter, - : : "The latter worked at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform where, if a break in diplomatic relations between Spain and Cuba eccurred, he would be in charge of obtaining confidential informetion GROUP Lt en _— 7 PAGE D_of - 19 _PAGE(s) EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC . DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION Danthonia! tS arma eens dnd Sof 12 PAGES)
' Doc ID: 6598266 - 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) bi(ii 0/15748-66 \ ; ae a to supply to the enemy, In July and October of 1962 he distributed correspondence with instructions, received by diplomatic pouch, for the counterrevolutionary organization, the Revolutionary Student Directorate with which he maintained close relations through BLANCA MARTINEZ DED“Hov0((A)), JORCEMEDINASBRINCU TER((A)), and LUIS-FERNANDEZ“ROCHA((A)), ‘The first two were national coordinators for civic resistance and strengthening of the Revolutionary Student Directorate, and the latter, a CIA agent, "It has also been proved that Counselor CALDEVILLA's wife, at his suggestion, has maintained relations with relatives of political prisoners and counterrevolutionaries, inciting them to ‘send letters of protest to foreign embassies and international | organizations, . "On the occasion of the arrest of counterrevolutionary GENARO “FERNANDEZ FOLGUEIRAS, national leader of the counterrevolutionary “organization, the National Union of Revolutionary Institutions, he PAGE 6 of 12. PAGE(s) GROUP i — Sowa EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC ___ DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION 7 - ___. PAGE 6 of 12 PAGE)
+ Doe ID: 659826 @ pe . : ‘2x/ol_ \ri663-66 _ ~ Ba0SC2T07(5\q)\ 2D . bi Sree 0/1574.8-66 stated and offered evidence that Counselor JAIME CALDEVILLA was to recruit him and give him training in arms and explosives, even within the Spanish Embassy, and instruct him in organizing an: espionage network for the illicit procurement of military, economic and political information and in penetrating the Cuban~Spanish Friendship Society, whose building he was to occupy in the event the United States Government launched an armed aggression against Cuba. He was to be given arms and equipment at the opportune moment. In like manner FOLGUEIRAS was instructed by the former to distribute arms and relay guidance to counterrevolutionary &roups in the event of this aggression. The espionage ring organized by the aforementioned is made up of eight persons who receive for said task the amount of 250,00 US dollars monthly and the promise of a deposit of 500,00 US dollars’in an account ‘in’ their names ina . Miami bank, - "Miss CARMEN JIMENEZ GOMEZ, for her part, was entrusted by . Counselor CALDEVILLA with the mission of directing an extensive : : | 7 ot 12 | PAGE(s) GROUP 1 | | miata EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC rece PAGE 7 of 12 PAGE(s)
. e - Doc ID: 6598266 " “RUSCDTOTEOOVD) (ii) 0/15748~66. _ espionage network in various State organizations, such as the Ministries of the Sugar Industry, Industries, Foreign Trade and Education, and the National Bank of Cuba. Miss JIMENEZ GOMEZ, . om one occasion, supplied him with a directive of the nickel industry as well as a plan.and a report with specifications on the type of . arms, location, and personnel of the military installations of Managua and Matanzas which were delivered by LUIS ANTONTO COLLAZOENNT NCCA)}, who is a deserter from the Armed Forces, pg Ames 2 "In April 1963, when the Achives was pentrated by CIA agent RAMON-GRAU-ALS IN( (A) ) who directed an espionage ring, a note was. “found which confirmed that a certain message had been delivered to Counselor CALDEVILLA, In June of the same year, photostatic copies. _ of the motions of the Student Congress on the Struggle of Peoples _. Against Colonialism were delivered to him by CARMEN JIMENEZ GOMEZ. "During the celebration in Havana of the First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, PAGE -8 oof 12 PAGE(s) SO pet GROUP 1 EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION
- Doc ID: 6598266 @ | a | @, _— oa 66 . : Pauscz21076\6 )(2)(D) (iii) 0/15748-66 Counselor CALDEVILLA attempted to obtain the names and activities of the delegates, guests, and journalists: attending, as well as reports on its development and Agreements. "Tn renmueny 1966, he gave refuge in his residency to counter-- -revolutionary fugitive ALDO )ABREUSRACALLAO((A)), a convicted saboteur "The Cuban authorities have also learned through the statements of several arrested persons, that Counselor JAIME CALDEVILLA. uses the pouches and enciphered Embassy cables to receive and transmit instructions, reports, requests for information, and correspondence related to illicit activities and is personally in charge of deciphering messages in an office on the second. floor of the chancery, next to the offive of his Secretary, and is also in charge of - . reviewing and approving all of the material obtained in the country ‘by his numerous. agents and contacts before sending it abroad, | | PAGE 9 of 12. PAGE(s) GROUP 1. Pmt emetic, SAE EXCLUDED FROM. AUTOMATIC ____ DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION PAGE - 9 of 12 PAGE(s)
e Doc ID: 6598266 ® 2x/o/|_}r1663-66. : 44USC2107(5)(g)(2)(D) fo(iii 0/15748-66 "We were also able to prove the connection between Counselor JAIME CALDEVILLA and the ex-official of -the Spanish Embassy __ ~ALEJANDRO~¥ERGARA((A)), whose departure from the [5G] it-was also necessary to request, as well as the participation of both in crimes against the integrity of the State and the illegal: removal of foreign currency and jewels from: the country.. Both kept as refugees in the Spanish headquarters two telegraph operators in charge of intercepting transmitted radio telegraph communications by means of radio sets, They also recruited a telegraph operator from the Ministry. of Communications: who was in charge of the. espionage work of that organization, At that time Counsellor - JAIME CALDEVILLA was personally concerned with verifying the reports supplied by these two individuals, with the aid of an employee of the Embassy;-ADELA-RODIL’ RODRIGUEZ((A)), and CARMEN JIMENEZ GOMEZ, He give direct orders to the latter. ' "Both VERGARA and Counselor CALDEVILLA have known of the plans = for sabotage and assassinations, including those against the Prime enyeguroerepemmney PAGE 10 of 49  PAGE(s) GROUP 1 - ee iia Fe EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC ROWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION r “ cone one om BE PAGE 10 of — 12 PAGE(s)
i an “Prausc21076\aV2VD Ei 7 0/15748766 - Minister af the Revolutionary Government, Major FIDEL CASTRO RUZ. --- Both were exposed by leaders 6£ counterrevolutionary organizations, having offered, on’ one occasion, to supply to one group rifles: with telescopic sights, The authorities have proof that one or s A the other maintains relations with the well-known counterrevolutionary leader MANUEL ARTIME, «Whom .Mr. VERGARA visited in Miami-sometime’ before the mercenary invasion was crushed at Playa Giron, in: April 1961, with the knowledge of Counselor JAIME CALDEVILLA. ‘>  "Tt-has been Imown that Counselor JAIME CALDEVILLA has been: — dedicated, furthermore, for some time, to the illegal removal from the country through the diplomatic pouches of the Spanish Embassy ~~ Of jewels and foreign currency delivered to him by different persons, on a basis of 20 percent of its-value. In this way, the removal : from the country of the possessions of ALVARO GONZALEZ GORDON((A)) . and his wife MARIA TERESA~VELASCO>SARRA((A) ) was facilitated, GROUP 1 erase EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC re SOIT PAGE 11 of 12-—opageys) DOWNGRADING AND DECLASSIFICATION ; | oa | y AS PAGE 11 of 12 paces)
@ s/o) Ir1663-66 b(iii) ~ : a fos Doc ID; 6598266 i i t i i i i eee DT : Siete -0/15748-66 “"You will agree with me on the importance of this matter, both painful and regrettable, since it is the question of an official of the diplomatic representation of a country with which Cuba maintains normal relations.. We trust that your understanding and : collaboration will help conclude this affair as soon as possible, We also trust that the Spanish Government will adopt pertinent measures to prevent acts of this nature from recurring, . “""T take advantage of this opportunity, Mr. Charge“d'Affaires, — to reiterate to you the testimony of my highest considerations," ((A)) Personal names not verified, as in text, 9 f 12 —~PAGE(«) _ GROUP 1 u PN een Lina EXCLUDED FROM AUTOMATIC PAGE 12 of 12 PAGE(s)