(fostorse-t0325) | a 2 a whe ; : — - ee a, Background ‘Use: Only pe — ‘Do Not Reproduce “4 tee DSBAIGEINS OF ae S.SJETT: Socurcats Brought out by anu 1 and: Wns Comacnts Conecining ce, -  -Geeunant 7b . i. : a, | letter dited 2» apeid’ 1968. atdees sed te “eSocvene vita" an po a ; y ae . oe sizaed © “AGIST This lettce requests VELA: 9 as sist. bearer. “The” 7 us 7 Vettes ‘was given to seu (tae Deputy chick of “D6i CHAGi STO") (to. Be introduce hia to the DGE- offiesr “absigned te ‘Prague. “AUSTO “is psciido on used within the DGL for ‘the Deguty ict who is tenor in tha. 3 pinkitey of” _ se Foreign Relations-as "GUAIN", OB re | 2.0 MING explained chat the head of the setvica, vanzel P NOL ; weat to Uoscow on a trip Isaving Guba 11 April 196%, The Source (A-1) teaentily had coturned fron Mexico on 23 March 1964, After the departure o= PINSINOD the Source told the Deputy Chief that it was necensary for him, the Souree, to go to Prague so that he could ssaet on 22 April with & Sodorto G\RILLAS DELGADO, ‘the Sveretary Gonstal, PRAN in SL Salvador. Taese are the true name ant position of CA RATLL 53 but the Socree- invented & the reason for making an operitional mocting in Prague knowing that ee mL Deputy Grief of the Service would not Know any botier. (The Sourcé 5 gome to lLexice on Mb March 1964 for the purp se of holding a meeting - " eo. lo .% with GASTELLAS and other meabers of the Communist varty from 2] Salvador, ., but the necting really did rot take place because the Salvaderians failed tg appear. In talking to the Deputy Caief of the Service, the Souree said e- . . . N ad ‘ ~ a ~ -* : . t , that he had, a meeting in iexico whieh nade it necessary for hin to have a : mecting in Frague with CARRILLAS, who had to be in Pracue for still another ~ . o
wee necting relating to revoluttonary activities to be ear tied out in ” i. -falvidor.) The: Source did ‘this: because it seemed to his ‘tha bese . way of f getting out of: Cuba vith decuncats which he had “gathered, _ The, “Sources! w 20S gucees stul in convincing the Deputy Chict of ‘the’ Service that” “ “the operational aceting in Prague was FY necessary follow-up ‘to the : ‘-Soures*s. regent” trip to Toxieos hea Source. -prepared his briefcase for ~ os “ ghe trip aut ‘of Giba. he found that oaly a part ef the doduzes ats whites “ha! had been coliceting ‘would fit. Be selected those which appeared * most interesting and left the others locked in his office in the Dor. . Ut was the Source's intention to sock asylum once he arrived in the _free world at the first stop in Canada and to request ke that he be permitted to go to the U.S. vith the documents to surrender thea to KUBARK, 3. Source collected the documents over a period of tine at considerable xisk because a number of the documents were in the possession 7 “of other CUIS officers in their desks or safes, Source made it a custon ‘to visit these offices and to take advantage of the teaporary absence of. the officers assigned to them to’steal the documents which he then put in -hie own safe, — ‘ ‘4, The Source was quite worried because he fearcé that then he arrived at the airsort to leave Cuba he might bo required to open his bricfease, This fear proved groundless, and he was ablo to Leave Cuba ‘on 21 April 64 . on a flight for Prague which had tostop at Halifax, Canada, . \ Se Prior to‘ leaving Cubayf the Source withdrew from his savings _account in a Cuban bank all that he had which amounted to 1272 o:ban esos, He gave this amount to kis wife whose name is Luisa ROD2iGUCZ P oe Rodriguez (naiden name same as married dane), In giving the money to her BEX jC FL Galbuneer& : ced “¢
14-00000 of his intentions despite ‘the. fact that she ‘and her fathers ‘aio ‘obpe cod “would bé delayed in Prague because’ ‘the matter he had to. discuss was. ‘ “with guilty. knowledges in giving ‘her the money he caid that pos eatbly. he Soke . couplteated, “he told: hor; ieee ght RY at co Seo he did not say that he intended to dcfect and, in fact, never poems - a ha ae / - “nad siven, her. any tndteation’ ot” nis: plang: to ‘do co.” “He eo t her endi to the Castro Reging: Because he felt ae ‘botter for her. noe to: ‘be burdened. a2 i t i. herefore that he would fecl better’ tnowting that ‘She had sutficicnt fuiids at hand to take cars of any. exorgencies in. connection Lt herself or het children (by 1 previous marciage); a Bore ca Vinee: e, 13 years old, and a sirl,. Franc¥éca, 12 years old. - . The CUIS (DGI)} sent a cable to Tague to advise that the Source would be arriving. Accordingly ,when the Source leZt the plane at Ualifax it was a foregone conelusion tliat his failure to arrive as scheduied vould be reported to his ow Service, a 7 4 7. In addition, when the Source did arrive at ilalifae the pilot and SHR erew of the airplane and tae other passencers became avare of the fact that he had requested asylum in the free world, ‘They called hin a traitor a which led him to statg that he was no more a traitor for Leqving the present Regime than Fidel Cystro was for opposing the Batista Regine. The intere 3 ehange of comments /botvean the -Souree and those who vere continuing on the j . flight to Prague almost resulted in a fist cightat Halifax, Te Souree took fron Qiba 52615 in U.S. bills . veactically all of this amount was what rouained from the idvince -iven te him by DGI when he went to ' Mexieo) rv which he had not accounted} »slus the eevunce given hin for the trip to Prague. ‘When te declared his intention to Canadian suthorities ‘