_DISPATCH paz Sblef tH Division ger a, 6h CASE ICATIONS SECRET /KAFOK “S _ —_ 4 __—chief, KH/COG and Chicf of Station, JM/AVE" {| | ese sou mpams Fora i a __Shief of Station, Mexico City [asome [| LITAMIL*9 and the Latin American wri-ers Congress in Mexico RS POE FY! 1, Forwarded attached is a memorandum covering a sudcession of meetings held with LITAMIL-9 in connection with the Ladin America. writers Congress in Mexico ard it's Cuban de leaation,. = yatinm gett ar7 2. In addition to the meetings mentioned in the attached memorandum, the Case Officer, Raymond A, FRADYER, also met L-9 on 25 March, He knew frog LIENVOY that Ambassador Jodauin - HERNANGEZ Armas was having reception that night at the Cuban ' Embassy in honor of Ale jo¥SeRPENT IER Belmont. He aiso knew that CARPENTIER had aareed to weet L-9 earlier that day. FRADYER therefore assumed tnat L-9 aac probably been invited to tne Embassy affair. FRADYER had soent some time at his last reetine with L«9 briefing the latter on elicitation techniques and now he felt L-9 would safely bring up the subjects of the Vietnam war and French- Cuba” relations, two topics on which CARPENTIER could provide interesting information, FRADYER was disappointed when L-9 told him that he had left his house that morning at 7A,M, and had been ‘at his brother's plant in Toluca the entire day. L-$ added that “he would have to spend the next day in Toluca and thus would be unable to talk to CARPENTIER before the letter left. CONTINUED . 4 Attachment : MFR HEREWITH Distribution: = C/WHO watt “Y= C/WH/COG w/o att T= COS/JMWAVE watt 6 = FILES GS CoP7 DePATOr Sree, SPD PARR HMMA= 31703 Ragan SECRET /KAPOK Se ae
CONTINUATION OF | DISPATCH it SECRET/KAPOK | pe t70R CLAS FICS TION 3. FRADYER is very much aware of Heacquarters interest in L-S. Although he plans to meet L-9 regularly, he Gousts (as previously mentioned ta Clyde K. SHRYGCK when the latter recently - visited Mexico) that L-S will live up to Headquarters expectations. é ae : - A. He is acting as the general manager of the coffee grounds to edible?élant in Toluca in which he and his > brother cwn shares. Not only is this a new firm, but] the raw material and process used to make the of] are somewhat - of a novelty. The plant is deeply in the red (.-9 hag yet ~ to receive a salary and commutes to Toluca by cus) and requires ~ close and time consuming attention. With the cest of |will, ~ it is and will be difficult for L-9 to get away whenever ne ~ Is neecged by this Station, i | | 5 - 8. As pointed out by L-9 himself, L-9 has now bedn in -Mexico for some six months and has succeeded in obtaining 7 from Gobernacion his reinstatement as a resident alien. it _ must be increasingly evident to the Cubans (despite Li's | " request for extended leave from his job in Cuts) that |the “ Jatter will probably not go back to Cuba. in other words, - the Cubans probably view him more and more as an exila. - C. Because he spends rost of his time away from Mexico | ' City and because his Cuban friends are becoming more: neserved . with him, L-9 has less and less contacts with visiting Cubans. - In fact, only one, the Subject of Mexico City 5763, has phoned him when visiting Mexico since L«9's return to [this country. L-9, who senses that he is now an exile jn. the - “eyes of many of his friends in Cuba, is even reiuctant to - write to them. He feels, for examale, that little would te -~ accomplished by writing to Bsebio #AZCUE Lopez, as thy latter - would probably nct leave Cuba because of his young wifle and - child even though he is fedeup with the Castro regime.) On - the contrary, L-$ feels that he might not de Going AZQUE any favor by writing to him as the latter who is not Known - for being an enthusiastic supporter of the rezime may be ‘ under some observation from the Cutan authorities. - &, Information obtained by L-9 from CARPENTIER, Lizanidro TERO and Nicolas vee indicates A. Together.with information from other sources that the Cubans probably prearranged to take over the Congress of Latin American Writers with the help of the other Communists and use it for poligical purposes. - B. That Cinti ITIER is obviously not trusted by the Castro regime and may\be in trouble. ; mo €, That the Cubans are making a major effort, ia |line with their pro-French policy to show themselves in Parlis under the best light possible, : D. That CARPENTIER obviously enjoys the confidence o the regime. His trip to Hanoi had certainly nothing to de with cultural affairs. it Is regretted that L-9 did nbt elicit further information from CARPENTIER on his visit to North Vietnam. a 2 CONT INUEO PAGE| TWO CRASSIF CAT Coe SECRET /RAPOK
CLASSIF AT AT Coe i OISPATC Sv itixt. AND NIMEE CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH SECRET /KAPOK HPMA- 31763 5. L-9 did not come In centact with Roberto FERNANDEZ Retamar, LICRAFT-1 who knows FERNANDEZ was unfortunately an vacation at the time of the writers Congress. { ews FFE 8 ORD we! ee wD Bw SECRET/KAPOK PAGE THREE - CLASSPATH .: 8-64 530 BSE PREMOUS ED TrAt, | “Cot wep
, -SECRET MCR Soria Arn 2 367 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD bee 2, FROM - SUBJECT: LITAMIL-9 and the Latin American Writer4s Congress _ in Mexico . 1. The undersigned reviewed the list of delegates , attending the Latin American Writer's Congress with L-9 - on 19 March 1967. The latter indicated he knew all the “ members af tha Cuban delanatinn = Alein cappeuT ice Catena el - Roberto FERNANDEZ Retamar, Lizandro OTERO, Nicolas GUILLEN and Pablo NEREDA, @ Chilean writer whom he first met some 25 years ago and saw again about 1962. L-9 stressed he . did not know the Cuban delegates to the point of calling - anyone of them a personal friend as his dealinas with them - had been. confined to prcfessional contacts when he worked - for the Nationai Cultural Council. He had never been in- ~ vited to their homes or invited them to his. The delegate - he felt most at ease with was Alejo CARPENTIER with whom he ‘+ felt he had more in common than with the others. CARPENTIER | ~ whe has a French father and white Russian mother lived many _™ years in France and spent some time in South America. L-9 ~ considered him to be an intellectual of definite "bourgeois" ~ background and tastes. Not only. is CARPENTIER well known i ak “/£ Hump. 3/703 — Stopy | FOr ZAP COP —
for his novels (L-9 recalled shat his name had once been mentioned in connection with the Nobel Prize for literature) - and his journalistic writing (L-9 still remembered some lof the articles regularly written by him in Paris for the ~ “El Mundo" daily in the pre Castro eral but he is also an established music critic and a connaisseur of modern painting, all in all a talented and most impressive man _ now in his sixties. , 2. L-9 had on many occasions offered to helP WOF ACT ~ in any way possible. The undersigned pointed out that he now had a unique opportunity to do this with the Writer's Congress. WOF ACT was interested in assessing the Cuban - representatives at this Congress to determine their - possible vulnerability to recruitment. it was also ine terested in hearing from the Cuban delegates what they — thought of the Congress and it's accomplishments since it ~ Wes apparent that the great majority of it's members were — . Communist sympathizers and would probably use the Congress ~ for political Purposes. Any information on the situation - in Cuba and on Cuban Government organizations, particularly oon the incorporation of the National Cultural Council into ~ the Ministry of Education would be appreciated. it would 7 also be interesting to know why Cintio VITIER who was ~. scheduled to come to the Congress did not show up. L-9 sald he was willing to help but was extremely busy with his brother's edible of! business In Toluca. {t would ba 2
sifficuit for him to tind tine wm talk with the Cuban delegates, he felt .in addition,that it would be difficult for him to simply walk in on the delegates if he could] not be invited, officially, to the Congress or to a social affair connected with it. Finally, L-9 pointed out that . he had now been in Mexico for nearly six months, that — “everyone™ knew that he had no Intention of returning to Cuba and that, for these reasons, the Cuban delegates to Shem Pam en ee am Ph me a ee a. en eel, mec we oe me er tee oe a ater te dhe ed om et ea 2 oe et ae ox se Rt tthe t - a long "pep" talk by the uncersigned and some discussion ~ it was decided that 1-9 would call the next morning on . ambassador Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas who had just returned — from Cuba. L-9 would pay his respects and find out ff| the : : : - Embassy planned some social function at which he csul $5 ~ openly meet the Cuban delegates (he felt he might wrangle ~ an invitation to such an affair either directly from the ~ Ambassador or from Heberto JORRIN, the ex-Embassy portero - whom he has known for years). It was further decided that ~ b-9 would concentrate on CARPENTIER with whom he felt He . had the best rapport and who was in his view the delegate . with the most “bourgeois” background, 3, At a meeting held on 21 March L-9 related that) he ~ had seen Ambassador HERNANDEZ earlier that morning (the ~ delegates to the Writer's Congress which had been hetd for the last few days in Guadalajara were scheduled to return the next day). He had found the Ambassador nervous and. pre- “‘gecupled, The latter ‘told him almost mechanically that . 7 . , 3 ; |
everything in Cuba (political and economic Situation, sugar harvest, etc) was Fine, He informed L-9 that he did noe have the Opportunity to see L-g's sister-in-law and that cha had given a letter which L-9 had asked him to deliver |to her for Passage to the National Cultural Council to Marta GONZALEZ of the International Relations Bureau of the - Council. 1-9, in this letter, asked that his three month leave from the Cultural Council be greatly extended, The Ambassador said he ignored what reaction the Cultural people had to his letter. He explained that the Cultural Council is now Part of a Bureau headed by Lisandro OTERO. toa ce "Che Bites {S §P EF ONC Ke ef Poke aca € a bituae: - In the Ministry of Education. Carlos LECHUGA Hevia, the fein the € 2: — - previous head of the counzil has been reassigned to the Tri ~ Continental conference as a member of the Secretariat of « that organization, | Ke was replaced as the heaw of the - » Council by fau Muzpo, ex rector of the University of ~ Oriente. The Ambassador insisted that, in spite of this, ~ @utonomy. He was rather evasive when L-9 mentioned - his desire to call on the Cuban delegates to the Writer's Congress, He said that he did not think that a party ~ would be held at the Embassy for the delegates and did not ~ offer to put L-9 in contact with the people he wanted to . See. Since he did not seem to have gotten. anywhere with the . The Acal ges glam te _° Ambassador, the undersigned asked L-9 to call¥on the Congress & enantio ‘ i i y i
Higmnondcrsemerg 1-9 seemed reluctant at first, bue fin delegates at the Del Prado Hotel where they were stayin Ge aliy # agreed to do this if he did not have any more Tuck in contacting the Cuban delegates some other way. Le-9 prot ~ posed to visit the Embassy the next day and talk to JORR IN . . about the Congress. The Latter might be able to ¢'ace him in contact with the Cuban visitors. &, L-9 stated that he.had visited the Cuban Embassy early that The undersigned met L-9 again om 22 March, ~ 2 an La tec tee owe eR 5 Bet Oe OUR ee de et dag hue had ee wate Ene ino ins wos Se , Minutes. The latter was #0 busy after his return that ~ L939 had only a few minutes of conversation with him, JORR EA confirmed that the Embassy would not have a party fer the Congress delegates "because of the Semana Santa, ~ and said he did not know exact ly when the delegates would drop in the Embassy Following their return from Guadalajara. Upon leaving JORRIN jL-9 went to the Del Prado where he was told that the Congress delegates would only return to Mekico ~ late that day. A few blocks from the hotel £-9 ran into ~ Wicolas GUILLEN who greeted him by saying “here is L- 3 im _ his ambiente Mexicano." The two men walked together back GUILLEN turned down L-9's invitation for He did ™ to the Del Prado. @ cup of coffee saying he had to visit} someone, ment fon that the Congress, as far as he was concerned ,was : | “una basura" and told L- 9 that he had flown from Guadalajara Seamanes tsie enna Seta nsec tearalpatentemed ueate
- Cuban delegates wno were ;etuining oy ruad tater that day. _ GUILLEN told L-9 that he would be in the same neighborhoad ~~ ~ Licandro OTERO while in the-lobby. _. Was about to leave. when L-9 said “already?" OTERO pointed -out that he had been in Mexico for two weeks already. = ~ $ent to President Johnson and the Congress had taken @ - the above, L-9 recalled that a rumor circulated in Havana, ~ - to Mexico City (he did not say why) ahead of the other - been a@ successful meeting. A letter of protest had been ao early next day and would be glad to have coffee with him L-9 could meet him then, Anyway, he added, he would be Staying in Mexico for another two weeks at the request off the Ambassador. They could see each other again later on before he left. As they were about to cross a busy street shortly before parting, L-9 took GUILLEN by the arm in a fréenuiy yeacuse. Tec Cottor culled meay and §-@ had the feeling that GUILLEN did not want to let L-9 be friendly with him, -  §, The next meeting with L-9 was held on 24 March. L-9 said that he had not been able to call on the Cubans at the Bel Prado until earlier that day. He had run into L-9 repeated the derogatory remarks made about the Congress by GUILLEN. OTERO said that, on the contrary, this had firm position against the “Imperialists." After relating shortly before his departure from Cuba, ‘to the effect. tha e af The latter told him he e
Marcia LEISECA, OTERO's wife (a woman of about 34 who - worked at the Casa de las Americas) was about to divorce - OTERO to marry Osmani CIENFUEGOS. L-9 added that Marcla -~ had relatives in Hexico whom she visited in 1962 and 1965, ~ After leaving OTERO, L-9 phoned CARPENTIER and was told by the latter to meet him the next day, - 6 L*9 and CARPENTIER met for breakfast om 24 March. ~ When L-9 asked him for news about the Netional Cultural ~ Council, CARPENTIER said that L-9 knew certainly more about ~ that then he did as ne had been in France since last November. - CARPENTIER claimed that he had been called in by DORTICOS last October and told tecfovsie CASTILLANGS, the current -~ Cuban Ambassador in Parisfhad requested his nomination| to the Paris Embassy as Minister Concellor. CARPENTIER said he tried to get out of this two year assignment which he found too long, but was told by DORTICOS that there was |no way out of it. The Cuban Government, said DORTICOS, was — OUT tO make it's representation in Paris “an absolutely — first class Embassy", boRTICOs added that CARPENTIER would | not be so busy in Paris that he wild not find time to wrlite. / . | Whether he found time to write CARPENTIER did not say. ~ ‘What he did say was that the Ambassador:who was doing a very good job, did- an enormous amount of work and usually worked late at night. He also mentioned that while in Paris or shortly before arriving there he had gone to Hanoi
on an official mission, CARPERTIER gave no details ether then tc say that that horrible war was probably going to last, and that U.S, planes had flown right over his head Jjuring his stay. b-9 did not press him for |more information but gathered that CARPENTIER remained in : North Vietnam two or three weeks. : 7. &-3 asked why VITIER had not attended the Cdagress. CARPENTIER replied that VITIER was “in a special situation in Cuba" as he was not in accord with the revolution, He had been given the opportunity to go to Spain for |the Cuban Government but had refused to go. VITIER undoubtedly knew, from the background of the delegates, that the Writer's Congress in Mexico would be a leftist affair. CARPENTIER guessed that he probably declined to come because of this. Talking about himself, CARPENTIER said (without further details) that he would be going to Moscow in May. He announced that a film based on his novel "Los Pasos Perdidos" would be made this year, probably haif in France and haif in Cuba (negotiations with the French are still going| on). Finally, he mentioned that he was trying to convince the Cuban Government to create a centralized publishing depare ment and that as Director of the Cuban National Printing office, before leaving Cuba, he had succeeded in getting some 70 million books printed. He mentioned, incidentally, 8
1 ee om ohn Nt REO PRI A RO ORE A RRR ne Mia ot et ctl aise that his publisher in Mexico is Arnaldo ORFILA, ex dinector of the Mexico City Fondo del Cultura Economica whom CARPENTIER said he was on his way to see to collect royalties. CARPENTIER said he would leave Mexico on 29 March via SABENA and agreed to get together with L-9 on 27 March,
freer, some ‘Pe qepeenetttnantrmcamapnen eeeenepEE te Oe €E- 3; Pack &7 LETAHile9, LETSsit*9, who some years gag wore been Pace fro OLS VEEN for about aie remiths = Sutioraties #2 @ fasicent Althouga GiTAriit~S pag co tie to eo beck to ¢ dere his best to heap the PSALHEM doar coan, se hae requested that nis leave from his joo fo Pot vr forigena 8. bat mow reisscated by toe FPexre Fe GARE OS ROALD F BS Ch LETT OmMRIN BEE GPO CURED Fe OME mer we me wrceme met gon ems Dra atnd Oe oe * - Bo fe. LR wL. E om am Be busiveae tie Micicg, Tha fact by LITARIL<9 icoks more and Sam & ime Doe ae! Pee fe fag Be se eres e Ce ey hee et ore ifke an exiie In tne eye Gra i & if Foe i “8 PP Ai SE 4 gee we 4 of j ed with him at the ; the LAR ING ataff, oF the people ng gery ry pm eomatenaerammarmannean at @ 6 ent annette ramcmemn ine, os meremnen em cme a ni wis? a CSg omen a seer man coma oem aman oad : t : - is 2 yaa me — Q™, een tne "Cad bey Da Come Csr aich CONTINUATION OF i 1 ee ee ooenentingncee mere oe ea ater EER Le S$ eet Bede Boat ay SECRET /RAPOR | W317 10 te 67 ala Fem + tementate attra Bieta sansa eneinene PORCH Embassy the asbasaadar, th 1 . OT, the @2 Portero and one of esplovees Frou te Commercial Section ara lere, Al theuss Meer ELS Sees Stie: visit the Embassy anc fet with the febassader, it in cear that his rapsore will be more and wore reserved, with the Liki staff the
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rg a 4 4 PASE 2 MEXICO CITY 423 sEcRET GEG: . 2. CONSIDERABLE TIME MpS BEEN SPENT BY STATION REVIE¥ING YITH ’ ; ~ 9 HIS ACCESS TO INFO AND POSSISILITY INCREASE HIS PRODUCTIVETY | i «TO MAKE HIS RETURN TO® CUBA WORTH WHILE. q ; A ALTHOUCH L~9 LIVES IN CUSA WITH BROTHE? e19 sRoTHrer ¢ . 4 WIFE WED YOULD LOGICALLY SEE% HAVE ACCESS TO SotE TuTeecerras 4 INFO, BOTH ARE VERY RESERVED IN WHAT THEY TELL HIM ALTHOUTH : (9 BELIEVES HIS BROTHER IS BAS/CALLY ANTI COWYUNIST, LATTES ' | HAS NEVER 4WADE ANY REAL ANTI REGIME COMMENT OR DISCLOSED : ANY SENSITIVE INFO TO HIM BROTWE® AND SteTER Iw LAW SELDOY DISCUSS THEIR CONTACTS IM MINISTRIES AND GEYERALLY LIMIT SELVES TO NON CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS oat Gare 3S. L-9 LIVED VERY LONELY AND SHELTERED LIFE IN CUZA AND Hap 4 NO REAL FRIENDS, FEY 3000 SOCIAL CONTACTS HE HAD IN COMMIS EMBASSIES REFRAINED F854 JISCUSSING ANTTHANG SENSITIVE wily HIM, = L-9 COMMENTED THAT “ALTHOUGH I CAREFULLY NEVER SAY ANYTHING ASAINST REGIME EVERYONE KNOWS IT AM A BOURGTOIS INTELLECTUAL AND NOT A SY4PATHtzeR ” CG L-S SEES NO HOPE FOR HI4Y To TRANSFER T3 FOREIGN AFFAIRS, EXTERNAL TRADE OR OTHER TARGET MINISTRY, HE DOES NOT 3E ELIEVE CUBAN GVT WOULD SEND HIN WITH EXBASSY ABROAD TO FILL POST SECRE, : | x ; 4 -4 + = if a aoe ie Fi = ¢ B : i 5 4 i : i . - : _ 3 4 : * L z a * ; a ot » : f & ‘ } b eget at Fa « ; é . i 2. : akg RG AB EE + ee ee ee Wea,
FACE 3 MEXICO City $483 SEER ET a" Fe we my L aw oe No oD mw 4 SIMILAR TO THAT RE YOCUPIEN IN WEXTCO, . Se L-S RECENTLY APPROACHED LOCAL CUBAN AMBassspoe AND ASKED Him TO CONTACT HIS SUPERIOR Ty CULTURAL MINISTRY 34 HAVANA |TO ®ETAIN O ONE YEAR EXTENSION HIS Leave WITHOUT PAY IN ORDER AtTENS ‘ TO PERSONAL BUSINESS qy MEXICGQ AMBASSADOR DID NOT say WHETHER WOULD COMPLY wit RERUE ST POINTING OUT THAT Yeag F254 Now ho WOULD PROBABLY ACAI FACE SAME PROBLEM L-9 Noy INTENDS PHONE SISTER I+ Lad AND ASK HER INTERVENE HIS FACOR WILL APPLY IN EARLY DEC aT Go3ERyacrgy FOR PAPERS ALLOWING HI4 REGAIN AL EWD SIN TRANS *EXICAN RESIDENT STATUS ¥HICH Lost ASTER STAY IN cu3a, 46 ALTHOUGH HE DSING uTyosr STAY IN ©30D RELATIONS with CUBAN Gvt AND EMBASSY IN MEXICO poyaT L-3 WILL 22 OF MycH usip IF, AS f HE INTENDS, HE REvArNS “=xICQ, I-9 CURRENTLY SPENDS VERY LITTLE - . f TIME at EYEASSY avd iN OWN WORDS ONLY KNOWS AMBASSADSR” LOTTI pee OO, Lh behia 2% Le wessaeteesens SESPITE STATION URGING, HE Has SEEN : OF LITTLE HELP PROVIDING DETAILS ON Locatr N AND DUTIES oF EMBASSY STAFFERS NEECED BY STATION IN CONNECTION WITH LISAMPAN, 36 I-39 VERY APILCSETIC HIS DECISION, HOPES WILL nor SE MIE- bree one INTERPRETED 3Y¥ WOFACT HAS ory VIEW PARA 2 A30VE, ROWVEVER, SECC ;
sm. PACE 4 “MEXICD ClTY 3433 SECRET SEL, FEEL LiTILZ WOULD BE GAINED 2Y FORCING HIM So BACK cuoA INTEL POTENTIAL NOT WORTH HARDSHIPS HE WOULD HAVE To sur AND RISK HE YCULD HAVE TAKE NOT BE ABLE LEAVE CUBA AGATA S. OIL EXTRACTING FIRY, L-9 4M His BROTHER INTIRESTE SASING ITS CAPITAL, t-3 WOULD LIvE To ILVE VY #OFACT ESCRSY ACCOUNT 822ueat HOS ADV SecRerdl om gm, NNNN “e e Leo's ZR 2 I, ST iss BURIZE PAYTENT THIS AMOUNT To EI& PLS anVIse
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