(fosto‘ee-t0ade eo CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. Tuts material contains tnformation’ effecting the National Ditense of the Carted States witsin the meaning of the mlocaage Liwe, True t TBC. Seca. 73 and’ Te, the transiminaton oe preelation o? which im any manner to 6R UnaLthoriard pereon te prohibited by law. ; ; SECRET ‘ ; NO FOREIGN DISSEM . countxy Cuba REPORT NO. sussect Jose Raul VIERA Linares _ DATE OISTR. NO. PAGES 2 oe REFERENCES INFO. ad PLACE & . Washington, DLC. . ; pare acgSeptembér. 1964 FIELD REPORT NO. THIS 1S UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 13 TENTATIVE, SOURCE: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964, ' . ¥ . 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 checking with this Agency. Scurce identified a photograph of Jose Raul VIERA Linares, pseudonym “Gomez, and said that he is the desk officer for Colombia in the Seccion Sur (South American Section) of the Departamento de Liberncicn Nacional (The National Liberation Department - LN) in the Direccion General de Intelligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI). VIERA was a DGI officer stationed in Bolivia, but returned to Cuba at te egd of 1963. He has not traveled since his return to Cuba. 4,5,6 : Bees Headquarters Comments 1. A usually reliable source, on 24 February 1961, reported that Jose Raul VIERA Linares, born on 20 April 1940 in Cienfuegos, Cuba, arrived in Madrid from Mexico-Habana on 19 February 1961, for a position in the Cuban Bmbassy in Madrid. He carried Cuban Diplomatic passport number 28, issued in Habana on 6 February 1961. He was residing at the Hotel Rosalla de Castro in Wadrid, . “ 2. qn a document dated 3 July 1961, it was reported that the 3 olivian Foreign Ministry announced on 23 June 1961, that it 5 t hed asked the Cuban Foreign Ministry to’ recall their Cuban 4 3 sari 3 2 SECRET toitedeo tom ecromame| 2 t i NO FOREIGN DISSEM Sosteneteomes i ae “¥O PROJECT (AMWUG/1) jf} LS nC 16/01208-54 __ rf ~~ . a a 19° sue aason RID 1 { 7 POT4LS WuSA 7 pi), WE 1 (2), Ci 4,
14-00000 we , J . € , SECRET _ ‘ NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI-316/01208-64 ~ Charge d' Affaires because he had interferred in Bolivian” “ais en affairs. The Guban Forcign Ministry” apologized ‘and @aitd, “etre i ‘withdraw him. In the same message provisional accreditation’ was mr asked for J¢gse Raul VIERA Linares for the position of Charge bg d' Affaires,in Bolivia. On 24 June 1961;. VIERA arrived - ‘from Santiago, Chile, where he was First Secretary in: 2 “: Embassy. It was also stated that VIERA was :bérn “iw his first diplomatic post was Santiago,.and that he was-a vo! untery. teacher in Cuba prior to entering the diplomatic service a 3. A fairly reliable source, ‘in @ report dated ‘15 arch: 3 : ‘ that he met Raul Jose VIERA Linares, a Cuban’ diplomat assigned: ‘to -- ‘La Paz, in Santiago about 21 February 1963. VIERA is married to. Maria Cecilia BERMUDEZ de Viera and they have aa. infant: daughter, Isabel VIERA Bermudez. 4. A report dated 20 March 1963 gave the following information on Jose Raul VIERA Linares: VIERA replaced Mauro GARCIA Triana as Interim Charge of the ‘ * Cuban Embassy in La Paz in late June 1961. He held this position . until the arrival of Ramon AJA Castro on 13 March 1962. An “untested source said that AJA s®Verely criticized VIERA after his arrival and relegated VIERA to Cultural Affairs officer, a relatively low position. Another untested source said that VIERA has been meeting Cuban couriers at the airport which would seem to indicate that VIERA has not climbed backrup into the hierarchy of the Cuban Embassy. 5. A report dated 15 October 1963, stated that Jose Raul VIERA Linares was being expelled from La Paz for attempting to get information from the Bolivian Foreign Office by clandestine meaus. VIERA was expected to leave La Paz by 15 October 1963. 6. an for riciad travel manifest revealed that Raul Jose VIERA, his wife, Maria VIERA Cegilla, and his daughter, Isabel VIERA Beatriz, went to Habana from Mexico City on 14 October 1963. 2 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM ~ Up