404-10186-10120]: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This mater.al contains information-e@ecting the National Defenae of the Vaited States within the meaning «f the Rapsonace Laws, Tite . 86, VGC. Gece Ted aod 134, (ae transmission or revelation of which im ¢ny manner to 6n Ussulbotised permoa te probibiied br lew, é SECRET XO FOREIGN DISSEM countay Cuba . REPORT NO.. C3XC1-316/01229-64 suusect Rogelio TAMAYO DATE DISTR, ©=- “October 1964 .  RETURNTO CIA ; NO. PAGES. 2. Background Use Only REFERENCES Do Not Reproduce pate of 1964 INFO. mace g Washington, D. C. _ ; bate Acq. October 1964 - FIELD REPORT NO. TT TiS 18 UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATIVE, source: A former Cuban IS officer who served wath the ‘Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. _ yf Headquarters Comments The following report is one of a series containing personality information provided by the source and includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency. It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of . the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first crecking with this Agency. ‘Ll. When source was queried concerning his knowledge of Rogeliv TAMAYO, he said that TAMAYO works for the Cuban Minsstry of Foreign Commerce in the “Cuba~Azucar Department." TAMAYO, according to scurce, has no connection with the Direccioa General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence ~ DGI) or the Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security - DSE). 2. TAMAYO was described as having been born about 1937, being five feet eight inches tall, 135 pounds, having a thin. build, black hair, and black eyes. ry Headquarters Comments 1. <An untested source, in a report dated 3 October 1962, reported that Rogelio TAMAYO, an assistant manager of Cubazucar, left Habana on § Seprember 1962 for Prague, Bucharest, Beirut, Cairo, and Tokyo fer the purpose of discussing sugar shipments with those countries. 2. On 16 January 1964, it was reported that Rogelio TAMAYO Sanchez, Commercial attache and Cubazucar representative at the — SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM ; OLA aay NAVY i air {ns ! REP CINCLANT CINCSO # T&NS eter Errata anaes Nate Beeld diatrebutien indicoted by “2°. ——— Stone Rotts od tam automate oe $9 bo de On a Lee oe em [ marava or 4 = 8 of aé ~ He aes $750 E'S. 7 CC ne) eee ees: ‘S47 6) Y. WEY (92) CY 4 RING OR aD? waTews| a Pa: 7 Par tot , \ oe , x t erat tye dy
ome . and acne marks on his face. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSC1-316/01229-64 -2- Cuban Enoassy in London since 5 March 1963, arrived in London Yron Paras on 13 January i904. TAMAYO was born on 28 October 194i in liabana, Cuba, and carried Cuban passport D-126/63 issued in Habana on 20 January 1963, A sensitive and ruliable source, in a report dated 13 March 1964, reported that Rogelio TAMAYO Sanchez was one of the Cuban delegates to.the United Nations Ecououic Development Conference scheduled for 23 March to 15 June 1964, in Geneva. A fairly reliable source in a report dated 12 May 1964, stated that Rogelio TAMAYO Sanchez was a member of the Cuban Sugar Commission in Europe who representtd Cuba at a Sugar Conference in Budapest from 29 to 24 April 1964. In a 28 May 1964 report it was stated that Rogelio TAMAYO Sanchez, Cubaa Commercial Attache in London, would attend a meeting in Paris on 30 May 1964 which was reported to be in aid of opening an inter- national market of white sugar. \ In July 1964 a Cuban refugee who was a high-level Cuban government commercial representative in the Western Hemisphere and whose bonafides were established on the basis of preliminary interviews and debriefings, said that he met Rogelio TAMAYO in MINCEX in early, 1962 when TAMAYO was the Assistant Manager of Economics in Cubazucar. In late 1252 or early 1963 TAMAYO was assigned to London where he worked with Juan PERIS as a representative for Cubazucar. Source believed that TAMAYO represented other MINCEX enterprises, but was mot certain which ones. Prior to TAMAYO's assignment to London, he made frequent trips to Communist countries. Source deseribed TAMAYO as having been born about 1937, being five fect nine inches tall, 140 pounds, white, having ‘black, curly hair, light brown eyes, He liked‘to chll himself "El Caballo." SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM