14-00000 Fe A SN EN AE ti eA EA pg Nr ada Tatas Hl Tl ata ni aaa Band Wi BOS) ” . a . * ; ; ws . ae Los cin : - SUBJECT + Meeting’ with LITAVTU=9, 10 Match 3 96h a | . le A twonandsaehel? chew necting: with Leg was ‘held at Bts -honie on the: oan i => night ef 10 March, “b-9.wes-in “excellent spirits, showed ‘none of His usual. - _* depression, It developéd that hé feels éxtra secure in the £/0's hane because 3 the C/o has diplomatic doyturitty- dnd nosone is likely to walk dri ==» he does ‘Hot > * feel ‘such security” at. the safehousé,. Since there is nothing to be gained by _ Coe ' battling L-? over this ratter, the safehouse will be used for PEGRIP=l and . future meetings with L9-will be held at 3's homé or in Bis car, .A solid gate r . will be substituted for ‘the iron grating now barring BE 3 driveway. for added security. - 26 ty Ae Ve gt J an Sf) Ol eg, \4 4 sh 38 % _. 34 4 \b 33 ,2 § cons’ 8 L=9 reported on the fol loding: _ day Orquidia and Fofo,; a Cuban and Mexicen woman from the house on _find out how well connect ed U9 is in "the intellectual and cultural : world," “rondo OTRO L=9 attended the baptism narty for Antonio GARCIA Lara's new son -= held et "Fofo" GUTIERREZ? home on Friday 6 March, Among those present were fico and wife, Onelio del Pino, wife and 2 children, Enna Castro, the wife of Raul Aparicio, Nicofs mother-ine Apatolé france where L=9 and ico paid a call during Christmas week, the wife of Fernandes. -Roa, Gulllerro and Uilda Nuig, the wife of Anbassador fiernanlez Arras ard Victor Lomeli (Ennats husband), According to im9 there was "aot a hint of Conmunism" at this affair and, with the possible exception of Gmo, Ruiz, no Communists present, The new baby was baptized Zamilo in dhurch, L-9 reiterated his belief that Nico is not a Cermunist, 8 varch Raul APARICIO seve a party at his home on Gunday night -= and seemad to dbe.quibe pleased vith himself for having lured the famous Rumanian orchéstra conductor CFLIBIDACEE to his plece e- C is residing in Rare, has recently Lean conlbetine the Mexican syrmhany == used to head “he Yerlin ayenhonj now conductel by one Von Karajan == he is a Ruranian exnatriate, Aparicio wan flabbergasted when © greeted Lw9 ag e lenz lost oriend and seid "T have your painting on ileplay in Rome," Accordinz to L.9, Aoarieio is constantly being surprised to e ae vs / g! Tec Socriguez « Foreign } Snister ROA's | right hand man io varty and greeted Le9 with a a biz eb: abrazo a asked him if he was tesa in Yexi¢o, L9 asked Otero to convey his. thanks to the PONT! for allowing L-9 time to paint, Aparicio also took nete of Le 9's clese relationship to Otero, teen, oof the Revista DIE tiqueta, ‘pecmtly visitea ‘to cnas avout the poss ioilities of devot voting an issue of Tn the near future an issue will be devoted Reed is, a nephew of (fnu) ARELLANO Belloc, “f° A man named the Exebassy t that magazine to Cubes to General TeGaulle. wore od "Raulite™ 202, son of the Pon, and anbassador of Cuba in Brazil mace a tour of the Embassy the other day -< Ambassador Hernandez Armas oreREy PEOTO @ POUCH SECURITY yz FULATION FO FIELD BISTRIBUTIOY. 23 “be b 49 Gee
14-00000 f i) tad been assigned ty t the Asbassédor to léck ‘into the purchase of three riew Ford cars, He is to buy them one &t a tine and to ‘shop around for bargains. He expects to deal with Mr. George Manning. - of Ford or. with his assistant S Sr. Paniagua. rr ee ‘ ‘Antionio RODRIGUEZ (he is a Portuguese) of the magazine Sierpre oe and his wife are emected to leave for Cuba between 10 and 15 April. ; on a visit, / A is heh SS LZ Yh. ! ' Andres Rvoun;Tomerly of the Grmercial Office of the Embassy, is o _indres "ARVOMA .- ““in trouble in Ctba for having kept such poor records of expenditures == |- he. he came close to being throw in jail. He has now been relegated to clipping newspapers — clearly denoted, He left things in an awful mess at the.dffice in Mexico City and people there are still trying to straighten out his accounts. ORRIN the doorkeeper is a nervous wreck = Le9 has noted that he is often shakire visibly, The Ambassador noted this tha other day a | and renerked to 1-9: “hat do you suppose is wronz with Jorrin == he is so thin? (The tone of L-9!s conversation rakes it appear at tines hat he thinks Jorrin is our agent, Could he be a Mexjoan, agent?) A Chinese was in to see apariede on 2? March and again on 6 March a= tall, thin fellow, cultured, speaks Enelish which he learned in | Shanghai, About 30-h0 years of ave ~- certainly not over LO, Aparicio told L-9 that this ran is going to desert Chiang Kai Shek and go over to the Cormunists ATG ay Ba rr ~ A Mexican Army colonel, a chess chesp, receritly reurked that a senator -(fu) ARLGON is arranging permits for a Cuban chess team te come.to Nexico for a tournarents The other day L~9 and the nicomnareed paid a shert visit to a Mexican engraver named Leovoldo MUNDEZ, ‘EZ is an outeand@out Communist, The visit was in the nature of a courtesy, calle» 3 MS le On 2 March Aner: unlen named Jose 2afae ADT f. Loses Representing the Federacion d° contros Universitarios vasited the Embassy, LHe had - 4G a letter of introsuction ‘ron Jose safael ZANONT, president of the : pa na? federation, PADRINO was injured in a street fracas in Caracas and yo APP cA wants to go to Cuba Sor medical treatment, He was referred to the . consulate, EO. FIELD DISTAia- ‘iat SECRET
14-00000 : “spi es if § cnaitea)- “aia: showed Ba’ anéte of the fanily distillery. at: Metanzas, r Stes siting a 300,000 pedo (hence 1 os - @eliar). investnent. He. gad that in the old” ‘4278 - this. one plant used te: bring - _ 0° dn a profit of ,500_te 5000 dollars-a nonth ~~ the.other plant in Habana used we ' to be a profitable enterprise, too, L=9 said that his father built this business up from scratch and L-9 seethes with ‘indignation, vhen he is foreed to face the . fact that nis Dad is now considered by the rezinme to have been an explotter of ; the masses, L-9 said that when he last visited the Matanzas plant the old-tine - ...,. employees openly wept and told him-how much they wished for the good old days® “ss ae they went out of their way to do-him little favors, such as bringing him eoffee, finding hin a confortable chair, etc, Le9 told Bs "TI am a stubborn man and someday I am going to reclaim this business," S, About an hour was spent on small talk -= B showed L-9 some! | Chinese objets d'art, consulted wit th him about furniture stylesy ete @- the sort of . conversation that interests Leo and’ puts hin at ease | . 6, Le9 was presénted ‘with the book on Arshile Gorky so quickly obtained and pouched by Headquarters «= he was highly pleased and effusive in thanks, Te Led gave 3 a photo taken at a ‘recent exhibition of Polish poster art and a clipping of the same from Excelsior -~« in the photo (attached to original | of this CR) L-9 is with the Soviet, Czech end Polish Ambassadors, ; 8, NEXT MEETING: 20 March, 2000 hours, near the gasolinera om Reforma in Lomas, ‘ Ae A = 2:4 o~ fir at- G ¥