ele taet 18 June 1969 MEMORANDUM FOk: Special Agent in Charge Miami Field Office . SUBJECT : Field Office Memorandum_ofjd June 1969 © Re: Charles GOVEA and\F rdncisco redo Pancho" VARONA {(Alonso}., wee ~ cn cee “1, DThave nav read with care the referenced memorandum which deals specificilly with charges by a former agent Wilfredo "Pancho" VARONA zeainst his handler known as "Frank" or. Enrique. As you wil have perceived from reading VARONA's file by the time you read this memorandum, Mr. VARONA is not well regarded by our Station and/or the people who have handled him.to date. This cnstitutes the reason for his termination. I would also like youo examine the field traces om Mr. Charles GOVEA, an attachrunt to this memorandum. These traces indicate that Mr. GOVEA has had in the past, and possibly still may have, some coxiact with Castro intelligence organizations. We are presently wcting for a more complete read-out on Mr. GOVEA from the Nev York Office of the FBI. Understandably, therefore, you can ice we look somewhat.askance at the GOVEA/ VERONA information. Although we recognize the integrity of the unwitting intermediary Mr. Winston Guest of Palm Beach, Florida, we also rez:ognize the implications for "Frank" in Mr. GOVEA's knowledg:s of our affairs given his ‘possible Castro intelligence connectcn. Axiomatically, we will be inte rested in knowing, at some pont in the near future, whether 'Erank's" true identity is knovn by either VARONA or GOVEA. 2. Lhave diussed this memorandum in detail with "KE yank!', Our vievs on VARONA's allegations are presented below, keyed to you: basic memorandum,
14-00000 a. is paragraph 4 of your memorandum of li-June 196%: - O24 re. VA ited sometime during 1957 oy Mr. en assigned to the Agency’: Station in Havana. He was subsequently handled by ivr. nother Agency Officer _ presently sutioned in Kingston, Jamaica. Later, still in Cuba, he vas handled by Mr. Frank Belsito now serving in Panama aid Emilio Rodriguez (deceased.) Mr. Rodriguez turned Mr. “ARONA over to "Frank" in November 1960. In August 1911, Mr. VARONA took asylum in the Brazilian Embassy indavana. He was later granted "salvo conducto" to Rio de Jazeiro. In the interim "Frank" was exfiltrated from Cuba tcethe U.S. When Mr. VARONA arrived in the Florida area during March 1962, he was met by his Havana Case Officer 'F rank" who continued to handle him until August 1962, at which time he was turned over to the Greek Case Offices he refers to. The Greek Case Officer handled him for app:oximately three years. Along about 1965, the Greek Case >fficer turned Mr. VARONA over to Mr. Al "McQuade aki Fred who handled Mr. VARONA until May 1968, at whi:h time he was turned over to "Pepe" intro- duced by ''F:ank" who served as an intermediary because of his previms connection with Mr. VARONA. Pepe's specific job vas to give Mr. VARONA one last chance to prove that h: could be productive before being terminated. Pepe, an emerienced agent handler's problems with Mr. VARONA were precisely like those of his predecessors. He found M: VARONA to be untruthful, bellicose and generally wuatisfactory for any form of continued employ- ment by WE Miami. Therefore, after due consideration of Mr. VAL.UNA's potential to cause trouble because of his long exp: science with the Agency, the decision was taken to ternimate him recognizing full well there might be security -“percussions. Za ar