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Records Collection Act of 1992 
(44 USC 2107 Note) 
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104-10183-10340 HER APARTMENT IN COMPANY. Wi TH RAMOS , HUSBAND 15 “AS -FOLLOWS *~ goad ERERTING HER AND TRIED TO EVCRE“PtPY BY STATING_IHAT .T HER HU ese 5 USE PRENOUS EDITION. | conten Fog tot CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH UEGA-2 4, — ; C. nanis Milner. - HEAD: "OF - THE eSeeCiONAL! oF THE | "COMITE DE DEFENSA'* END ‘SUBJECT TS DISTRICT. ‘MARIA ACCOMPANIED. in TWO DSE AGENTS “THAT. ANTERWI EWED. SUBJECT ON HER. FORMAL AOL TERETE TO LEAVE CUBA.. Ve 0. / ENU/ Xoanos - A: Ds. AGENT “-WHG ANTERVIEWED subset AND. SIGNED HiS ‘NAME -TO THE HGUSEHGLD ANVENTORY. FORM AND” THE; IMMIGRATION SEAL sian CF HER PASSPORT. 3 E. MARTA MENDIVER = PRESIDENT OF THE COMITE, NEXT. SUBJECT'S HOUSE. ~~ - fo ‘F. ROBERTO: fUnu7-. a A POLICEMAN: FROM. 88s seein HAVANA STATION WHO ADVISED SUBJECT ON HOW 9 CONDUCT ‘HERSELF r WINNENG OVER aTHE COMITES TO HER. SIDE, G.. PUD OSE AGENT WHO INTERVI EWE. uae a ie H. th Shae DERMerEED. LINES WHO. HANDLED SUBJECT'S RES AT THE ALRPORT.- THE CHRCNOLOGICAL ACCOUNT 1 AS RELATED BY SUBJECT OF ‘HER: < a a OF" ‘HER, cf ie EXPERVENCES AND aera: Lees “FROM. THE: AME OF THE 1. 12 APRIL 1964 - AMMUG-1 LEFT CUBA ON THIS DATE IWF Ren ‘SuasECT THAT HE WAS GCING TO CANADA ON A MISSION FOR THE céc. HE TOLD NOTHING MORE AND SHE HAD NG IDEA AS TO HIS SPECIFIC MISSION. 11. CIRCA 30 APRIL 1964 - A. A NEIGHBOR, EMILIA CONTINO, TOLD SUBJECT CCNFIDENTEALLY THAT A ''G-2'' CAR WITH FIVE MEN INSIDE, HAD PARKED GUT FRONT AND A MAN HAD RAPPEO CN HER DOCR TWO DAYS EARLIER. /CERCA 28 APRIL 1964/. WHEN THE NEIGHBCRS INFORMED THE ''G-2'' * AGENTS THAT SUBJECT SPENT THE DAYS WITH HER MOTHER, THEY ASKED TO SEE THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL ‘'COMITE DE DEFENSA,'* 8B. ALTHOUGH SUBJECT SUSPECTED THE *'G=2"' ViSiE WES” : Ce aries RELATED IN SOME WAY WITH HER HUSBAND, SHE DIO NOT KNOW THE DETAILS. SHE DIO NOT, HCWEVER, DISCUSS HER HUSBAND WITH THE ''COMITE. Hit. CIRCA 12 JUNE 1964 - ABOUT TWO MONTHS AFTER HER HUSBAND LEFT, SUBJECT WAS GIVEN A LETTER BY HER MAILMAN WHICH HAD BEEN OPENED AND - CRUDELY RESEALED, NO ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DISGUISE THE FACT THAT . THE LCTTER HAO BEEN OPENED. THE LETTER /POSTMARKED IN MEXICO AND ADDRESSED TO HER/ WAS 1N HER HUSBAND'S HANOWRITING. BUT WAS UNSIGNED. HE SAIO HE WAS SORRY FOR THE.QECISION -HE HAO TAKEN AND ASKEO- HER TO TELL HER PARENTS THAT RE HAD “NOT ABANDONED “HER. SHE” ANSWERED THE LETTER IMMEDIATELY SENDING IT TO THE RETURN ADORESS HE GAVE. SHE DID NCT PLACE ANY RETURN ADDRESS CN THE LETTER AND MAILED IT. IN HAVANA, SUSJECT DISCUSSED RECEIPT OF THE LETTER WITH HER GIRL FRIENDS IN THE APARTMENT BUILDING, NOTABLY EMILIA CONTINO AND EVA RODRIGUEZ, TELLING THEM THAT HER HUSBANO HAD ABONDGNED HER. SHE COMPLAINED TO THEM OF HER ILL FORTUNE. IV. CIRCA 28 JUNE 1964 - A, SUBJECT STATED THAT SHE WENT THRCUGH A TERRIBLE ORDEAL DURING THIS PERIGD ANO DID NOT KNCW WHAT TO MAKE GF THE SITUATICN. SHE DESCRIBED HERSELF AS A BUNOLE OF NERVES AND BEGAN-TG SHCW THE STRAIN. B. ABOUT A WEEK AFTER HER HUSBAND'S LETTER ARRIVED, SHE CROSSED PATHS WITH THE ''COMITE'' PRESIDENT MARIA MENDIVER WHO ASKED MATTER OF FACTLY HOW SHE WAS AND IF SHE HAD HEARD FRCM HER HUSBAND. SUBJECT TOOK THE OCCASION TC RELATE IN AN EMOTICGNA&L MANNER THAT HER HUSBAND HAD ABCNDOONED HER, BUT THAT SHE HAD RECEIVED A LETTER FROM HIM, /SUBJECT SUSPECTS THAT MARIA HAD HEARO OF THE LETTER FROM HER . NEIGHBORS./ SUBJECT CALLED HER HUSBAND ALL SORTS CF NAMES FOR aaa 17 Maye J a . 3 . . . Reaee ene ON aiwe J TEMA any RUM . “ ON a ee PS sod | 3 as
104-10183-10340 re a CLASS CATON DISPATCN SYMBOL AND MAKBLR 3S €-€ REE CONTINUATION OF _ DISPATCH FGA-21604 PAGE. 3 HAD BEEN CHEATING ON HER AND HAD ON CCCASION STAYED AWAY AT NIGHT, LATER SHOWING: UP WITH LIPSTIGK ON HIS UNDERCLOTHING. SHE ADDED SHE HAN -CCNSIOERED A SEPARATIGN BEFCRE THIS INCIOENT. THIS APPROACH ~ APPARTNTLY WORKED AS MARIA THEN TOLD HER NOT TO WORRY AND “TO LEAD HER OWN LIFE AS HER HUSBAND WAS NOT WCRTH WAITING FOR CR WCRRYING ABOUT SINCE HE WAS -A TRAIZCR TO-HER AND TO HIS COUNTRY. MARIA SAID SHE KNEW HE HAD FLED WHEN THE~G-2 CAME LCCKING FOR HER AND ASKEO — MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT HER, “MARIA THEN. RELATEO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS THE ''G-2** HAD POSEO AND HER ANSWERS - . r G-2 - WHAT KIND OF A PERSON JS SHE? MARIA - A GOOD DECENT PERSON. G-2 - YAS SHE CRITICIZEO.THE GOVERNMENT? MARIA - 140 BE COMMITTING AN INJUSTICE IF.4-SAIO SHE WAS. G-2 - DID YOU SEE HER GET IN OR OUT GF STRANGE CARS? .. MARIA - NO. oo Ee 7 G-2 -- DOES. SHE HAVE STRANGE PERSONS /UNKNOWN PERSONS/. .IN HER HOUSE AS VISITORS?. _ MARIA - NO. . G-2 --HOW OGES SHE LIVE? MARTA - HER PARENTS SUPPORT HER. ot °C. MARIA ADVISED SUBJECT TO LEAD A NORMAL LIFE AND TO GO TO HER MOTHER'S HOUSE EVERY DAY. IF SHE WENT QUT, SHE SHOULO GO , WITH HER §'S{STER-IN-LAW'' GISELA CONFINI AND SHOULD NOT BE SEEN . TALKING WLTH STRANGERS AS HER EVERY STEP WAS BEING WATCHED. THEY /THE G-2/ WERE LOOKING FOR THE LEAST EXCUSE TO PLACE HER IN PRISON, V. END OF JUNE 1964 - A. A MAN IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AS BEING FROM THE “*REFORMA URBANA'' CAME TO HER APARTMENT ANDO TOLO HER THAT HER HUSBAND HAD EXILED HIMSELF. HE SAIO THAT THE ''REFORMA URBANA'! WAS INITIATING AN INVESTIGATION TO SEE fF SHE HAD LIVED LONG ENOUGH IN THE APARTMENT ,ONE YEAR;. . 1F NOT, SHE WOULD HAVE TO VACATE THE APARTMENT. HE CHECKED THE CONTRACT AND THE RENTAL RECEIPTS WHICH SHOWED SHE HAD LIVEO MORE THAN THE REQUIRED YEAR AND THE INSPECTOR VERIFIEO IT WITH THE '*COMITE'!' PRESIDENT, HE THEN, HOWEVER, TOLD HER TO GO TO THE '*REFORMA URBANA'' CFFICE IN GUANABOCOA IN ABOUT FOUR DAYS AND BRING WITH HER A LETTER FROM HER HUSBAND'S PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT STATING WHERE HE WAS AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS EXILE. THIS, HE SAIO, WAS ESSENTIAL IN ORDER FOR HER TO KEEP THE APARTMENT. B. SUBJECT WENT TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUEST OF: THE ''REFORMA URBANA'' INSPECTOR. SHE KNEW THAT HER HUSBAND HAD WORKED FOR THE ''MINISTERIO DE COMERCIC EXTERIGR'' SO SHE WENT TO THE MINCOMEX OFFICES IN WHAT USED TO BE THE BACARDI BUILDING ON CALLE MONSERRATE IN HAVANA WHERE SHE EXPLAINED HER CASE TO THE INFORMATION . CLERK AT THE DOGR. SHE WAS TGLO THAT HER HUSBAND NEVER WORKED THERE. SHE WAS THEN SENT TO ANOTHER MINCOMEX BUILDING ON CALLE 22 AND INFANTA tN VEDADO, HAVANA WHERE SHE AGAIN EXPLAINED HER CASE TO THE RECEPTIONIST AND WAS SENT TO THE ‘DIPLOMATIC DEPARTMENT.'' THERE SHE SPOKE TO A GIRL IN THE OFFICE WHO TGLD HER THAT HER HUSBANO WAS UNKNOWN TO THEM, ALTHOUGH MGRTIFIEO BY THIS RUN-A-ROUND, SUBJECT WENT BACK TG THE BACARD! BUILDING WHERE SHE KNEW HER HUSBANO HAD WORKEO AND INSISTED ON SEEING THE CHIEF OF PERSONNEL. SHE WAS ALLOWED TO TALK TO THIS MAN WHOSE NAME Sd= COULD NOT RECALL AND PLEADED FOR HIS HELP IN CBTAINING THE LETTER. HE. FINALLY BROUGHT CUT WHAT HE SAID WAS HER HUSBANO'S FILE AND SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED TO ANCTHER MINISTRY BUT CFFERED NO DETAILS. SHE CONTINUED TO APPESL TC HIM REPEATING THAT HER HUSS4ND HAD DESERTED HER AND LEFT HERQUM A DESPERATE SITUATICN, THE MAul BROKE OGWN AND TELEPHONED SEGUNOCYSPEREZ,. CHIEF CF PERSONNEL OF MINREX EXPLAINING THAT SUBJECT WAS THE WIFE CF ANMUG-I AND NEEDED A LETTER FOR THE ''REFORMA URBANA. ? ! THE PERSCNNEL- CHIEF SENT HER TC THE ''MINISTERIC DE RELACIONES. EXTERIORES'! ,SHE SAYS IT WAS IN BACK OF THE LINEA MATERNITY HGSPITAL, SHERE SHE TRIED TC EXPLAIN HER CASE 7O PEREZ BUT WCUND UP TELLING HER STORY TO HI5 SECRETARY, A GIRL KNOWN ONLY AS ELSIE /LNUs. ELSIE KEPT TELLING HER TO CCHE BACK THE NEXT DAY. SUBJECT KEPT te oe me ce en eee CLASSIFICATION FORM 2 . : 7 : wes S30 USE PREVIOUS EDITION, ; : H 1408 i CONTINUED ———— ee ree oe — _—e —_-——_-___.
104-10183-10340 Cu ASS ORTON i DESTR TCDS 90 HA ANT PERE spe RET lurca-c 1604 PAGE H, GURING WHICH TIME SHE LE WAITING OUTSIDE PEREZ* £. SUBJECT VAS SO TERED OF PROACHED PEREZ ANG PLEADED SYUnG THAT, ''IN BACK:OF YOUR RCBLENS.¢*° SHE TOLO HIM SHE KNEW © 5 BUT LKEEOED THE LETTER OR FACED in “CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH | 4 ‘ N i a Ue RETURNING ALMOST DAILY FOS ABOUT 4 hEVER SQ PEREZ, ONE DAY, HCWEVES OFFICE, SHE Sail. A MAR TALKING ler BEING GIVEN THE RUL-A-ROUKD THAT FOR THE LETTER, PEREZ ANSVEREC 5} a. 7 VES, 1: ry 4 Peele Ours HUSBAKD, THERE ARE GREAT AND GRS¥E > NOTHING OF HER HUSBAND'S ACTIVITI EVICTION,. PEREZ PROMISED TO HAVE THE LETTER READY BY THE. NEXT-DAY, HEN SHE RETURNED THE NEXT DAY SHE V'SITED ABQUT THREE HOURS FOR A’ CLERK TO TYPE THE LETTER WHICH SNE-TCOK INSIDE PEREZ" OFFICE -FOR. 3 HIS SIGNATURE, THE LETTER, AS SUSJECT-REMEMBERED IT, STATED - = | TO - THE REFORMA URBANA -  - ___i ss MR, SO-AND-SO WENT ON A GOC DELEGATION TO CANADA AND EXILED HIMSELF. © : HE 1S A TRAITOR TQ: HIS COUNTRY, MRS, /SUBJECT/ HAS REQUESTED THIS - LETTER FOR YOUR RECORDS. SIGNED /SEGUNDO PEREZ/ OFFICES, SHE STATEO THAT AFTER.ASOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT VISITS SHE F ERTENOLY IN HER CONVERSATIGN WITH: ELSIE AND CONTINUED TO PUStt ©: BECAME F cE ae A THE ''POOR LITTLE ME" APPROACH, ASANDONED AND HELFLESS, . ELSIE EVENTUALLY ASKED HER IF SHE WAS EMPLOYED, \:HEN SUBJECT REPLIED THAT SHE LIVED ON WHAT HER PARENTS GAVE HER, ELSIE TOLD HER THAT IF SHE WANTED TO, SHE COULD WORK IN A GOVERNMENT POST, SUBJECT STATED THAT SHE HAD CHRONIC BRONCHIAL ASTHMA WHICH PREVENTED HER FROM HOLD- ING A STEADY JOB, ELSTE THEN TOLS HER, ‘ALL RIGHT, IF YOU EVER DECIDE TO WORK, COME ANO SEE ME AND I'LL HELP YOU.'* ELSIE NEVER MENTIONED THE TYPE OF WORK SUBJECT OULD ‘DO AND THE MATTER WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP AGAIN BY EITHER ARTY. : - ---$, LETTERS CONTINGED TO ARRIVE FROM HER HUSBAND EVERY TEN -TO TWENTY DAYS, ABGUT SEVEN LETTERS ARRIVED /STILL CRUDELY OPENED AND RESEALED/ BEFCRE SHE TOLD HER HUSBAND TO WRITE TO HER GAUGHTER FRANCISCAAHERNANTEZ AT HER PARENTS! HOME AND TO SIGN THEM ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ WHO LIVED IN NIAM! ANO 1S MARRIED TO SUBJECT'S COUSIN ALBANIA MASSIP Y TIMONEDA, AFTER THIS ARRANGE- MENT WAS COMPLETED, THEIR LETTERS O10 NOT APPEAR TO BE OPENED OR TAMPERED WITH, SEVERAL LETTERS, HOWEVER, FROM HER AUNT AND BROTHER IN MIAM! TO HER MOTHER IN CUBA WERE TAMPERED WITH, CIRCA JULY 1964 - SUBJECT CCNTINUED HER FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH MARIA MENDIVER, THE §*COMITE'' PRESIDENT AND MENTIONED THAT SHE PLANKED TO GIVE UP HER APARTMENT SNC RETURN TO LIVE WITH HER PARENTS, SUBJECT CASUALLY OFFERED MARIA AKYTHING SHE MIGHT NEED IN THE APART- MENT AS SUBJECT KNEW THAT MARIA R30 CONFIDED TO HER NEIGHBORS THAT “SHE DESIRED TO HAVE SUBJECT'S SEWING MACHINE, Vit, CIRCA AUGUST 1964 - A, ABCUT THIS TIME SUBJECT BEGAN TO PREPARE FOR HER EXIT FRCM CUBA \.IT4 HER CHILDREN, AVIARE OF THE MANY CIFFICULTIES SHE WOULD ENCOUNTER IN OBTAINING HER EXIT PERMIT, SHE SOUGHT COUNSEL IN DIFFERENT CuARTERS, HER BROTHER'S GIRL FRIEND GISELA CONFINI SUGGESTED THAT SHE SEE A RELATIVE OF HER'S NAMED ROBERTO /LNU/ WHO WAS A POLICEMAN IK CHARGE OF THE OEPARTMENT THAT HANDLED APPLICATIONS TO LEA¥= CUBA AT’ THE GUANABACOA HAVANA PCLICE STATION, THEY MET CONFIDENTIALLY AT GISELA'S GRANDMOTHER'S — HOME IN GUANABACOA HAVANA /SUBJECT CANNOT REMEMBER THE ADDRESS/ WHERE SHE EXPLAINED /WETHOUT MENTICNING HIS NAME/ HER HUSBAND 'S PROBLEM AND HER DESIRE TO LEAVE CLE. ROBERTO THEN ASKED FOR HER HUSBAND'S NAME WHICH SHE GAVE Hit, ROBERTO SAID HER HUSBAND 'S NAME WAS ON EVERY POLICE ''WANTED LIST'! AND PREDICTED THAT SHE WOULD HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME LEAVING CUBA, SHE COUNTEREO BY SAYING THAT V:AS PRECISELY WHY SHE HEEDEL RIS HELP, ROBERTO ADVISED HER TO DISCREDIT HER HUSBAND AT EVERY COlAS10N EXPLAINING THAT THE MOST IMPGRTANT PART EN OBTAINING HER ZalT PERMIT CEPENDED Ci. THE REPORT SUBMITTED BY THE LOCAL *'COMITE'S?*, ROBERTO TGLO HER THAT TF HE WAS STILL th CHARGE WHEN SHE PRES=TED HER APELICATIOd: TO LEAVE THE HE COUNTRY, SHE SHOULD NOT DISPLAY SY INDECATION SHE KEW HIM, ALSO. SAIO HE OULD LOOK I8TO HER IASE AND REVIEW THE REPORTS THE DIFFERENT ''COMITES'' MADE OK GER AFTER “HICH HE WOULD BE ABLE TO rom nD Tst HEX TF TAT RE RTS UERGAssSuRon 2hOU GH -TO-WARRANTAN APT ghd $3a USE PREVIOUS EDITION, [ } conrimuee __— iL — Vi. 2 C. AS A SIDELINE TO SUBJECT*S VISIT TO THE-MANREX--° f