&., < PAGE 3 MEXICO CITY 7422 SECRET SEGRET a [7 ROWTON OBTAINED INFORMATION SUBJECT BORN MEXI CITY 1950, senaq sonore nonmsane OTE OE LC A EN TES a NAL UNIVERSITY AND LIVED CUBA CONSIDERABLE LENGTH OF TIME. MARRIED WIFE THERE SIX a ele ereeeenemEnnEEEEEE st meal YEARS AGO. | 8. PEQUEST. AUTHORITY PERMIT ROWTON SEND LIRING-3 CUEA ON EXPLORATORY TRIP WHICH WILL ALLOW LIRING-3 RECONTACT OLD FRIENDS LEARN WHAT ITEMS ARE CRITICAL AND WILL BE FIRST STEP INVOLVING LIRING-3 IN CLANDESTINE OPERATION WITHROWTON. IF, DESPITE HIS | Fo CUBANS, HE IS TINueEN ATVE NAME HTS CONTACT TN WEKICO CITY NOTHING IS LOST AS Or DE. IF TRIP MADE A ' HUS FAR ALL In came OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE. IF TRIP MADE Nov, IT COINCIDES WITH LIRING-~3 SPRING VACATION FROM HIS ART. ASSURANCES THAT HE WILL NOT REVEAL TEACHING CLASSES. ; _ 9, RECOGNIZE THIS QUICK JUMP INTO CPERATION WITHOUT FULL ‘INVESTIGATION OF SUBJ BUT BELIEVE IT GOOD OPPORTUNITY TIE LIRING-3 TO ROWTON IN WAY WILL LATER REVEAL ITSELF TO BE COMPROMISING. DO NOT BELIEVE LIRING-3 NEEDS BE FULLY CLEARED i WITTING AND RECRUITED FOR THIS OPERATION. | 18. REQUEST PRIORITY REPLY. SECRET _ eer / BT : DL te a a res
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74-00000 - . , ~ | 2 Mg , 7m " CLASSIFICA SECRET . | Chief, kestern Hemisphere Division. DCWH/C Chief of Station, Mexico city A” ‘ He? PBRUMEN/OPERATIONAL/ arlos JURADO and Miriam CHICHAY ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES Action Required: FYI Re ference : MEXI 7234 1. As indicated in Reference, attached are the contact reports of Wallace B. ROWION resulting from his recent meetings with Subject individuals. eo. Osmllar Contace reports wild continue to be forsarded to Headquarters as this operation develops. al o Cc. 3" for Willard C. CURTIS Jf | Attachnent: Contact report a/s h/w 4 Distribution: —o - C/WHD w/att 1 - DCWH/C w/o att 4 - FILES . [ec wpe ad & wnfcyes ES GN Jeet: CROSS REFERENCE TO - DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER _e CLASSH CATION QS FILE PeUMBER SECRET FFN @ 12,328
- _ 7 2 Hay, 1966 Subject: .. sallace % E:uton Contsct with Carlos dursdo. ., - 4e At about. 1630 on 2 jay, 1966, Hovton dropped inte the Salon de La Flastica Mexicana in ne hope of running into Subject so that he could renew contact more or less casually. 2. Fortunately as soon es he atepped into the door he found Subject engaged in conversation with the receptionist and another person (pro- ‘bably e Nexican employe of the Selon). when Subject spotted howton he breke off his conversaticn and moved away to greet Rowton cordially. He said that he had hinself gust arrived et the Salon and was very ha. py to run into iewton again, After a few Briéf remarks, he invited xowton to coffec in a nearby carga, inowton accepted and they both left the oa 2Uie won vee UO pean trerte) UG neg 3. Rowton remained with cubdect in -enversation over coffee for about 45 sinutes,. Subject expressed grutification in having set Xowton and several times reassured :owton that he enjoyed conversing vith hin ree gerdless of whether he cece un sale of his painting or note Zowton re= ‘verted to the theme that he had a genuine interest in subject's: future and hoped in gone way to crovide subject.with the means of becoxing Lg= letively independent so that he could travel and carry cr his art work freely.e Rovton added thet ne had ¢iven much thousht to the idea of slug Subject to-help him in his econo-ic research, since tris would justify Rowten's pubbisg Subj ¢t on his ex; euse account. He then Gueationed Sube ject on. his’ possible connections in Hexico, but Subject confessed thet ‘he had only limited ccntacts that probably wo 14 not be useful to Rowton. Rowton then moved into tke target question. He stuteé tr.t noat of iis clients in -nglond, Erence and Crzece were i:.terestecd in Cuban require= nents and perhaps Subject was in a unique position to prepare a report on what the Cuban econem? required at the moment. Subject responded with out hestitation that he could do something on Cuba without too mech .if- ‘fleulty. He explained th.t he knew official Subays in texico City, ine eluding those dn the Gomgercial idssion, and could travel inte Cuba if “mecessarye . : . ae Roxton then. stressed ta tact he really did not necd too many statistics: - on the Cuban econony. ner’ gontact with the cubans but wanted somehow. to -. justify helping subject. financielly. He expleined that he could eesily aasenble some data himself, but «anted subject to do sonothing concrete ban tk 30] so that he would remain in the ona: ti xovton could consider hin GULF ta nmi. 25875 —_. ot Eee
ae a'sort of stringer in rerorting oc ‘secncmic éavelouren t5e: ~uLgset . replied that he understodd aué dic act see that such a task would be too difficult. Se Howten then esked Subject hew he was coming in locating a new aprt- nent/etudio. Gubject replicd that he had found a desir: i¢ place nasar Chapultepec, and hoped to be able to move soon. iowton then commented that he uight bave to Leave for Saris in the next few days and would be away for about two weeks on busiress. de stated that he wight da able to help Subject with the rent on his studio provided it hed e phone. goutoc explained that he vas at present puyinag 350 pesos sontaly for secretarial service and could just as well pay subj ct sonethins for taking telephone messages. subject replied that he would be glad to be of service to iiowton without compensation ( "mi casa es suya" on such a matter. , , 6. Rowton then turned the co-veraatiion ta “ubiaattie wits ona eant ly, Subject reveslsed thet his wire's saiden nane { eapelliso) was the Chinese translation of “Flor de Durazno". Ee pronounced it in Chinese for xowten but Rowton msde no _oekeset to Gransklitercte it and at tris point cannet recall the phonetic prenunciaticu. Subdect sdded that Chi- chay is a Cuban corruption of the Ginese fiver cane. Iu reply to Rowe ton's direct query, sud?y 76Gb steied that ns teZo"3 Pakbex nother is in Cuba but ner father is in Kew Yc ae adced that her father did not agree with the Sa ee the rest of the. fasily renained. we alsc stated thet her uother has not renerried ané lives | with hex w brothers and sisters. Subject added that iis toward her father and in fact the father vidoes sassy = once 2 week time recline from tee York. owty ,4 not press for an adres e tite, fosling heat it would be more discreet te wait ETS teen eT rene meeting ( when he Could sliece that that 2e We 28 plenslar to Biop over in‘ Kew Th. - | ~ a —onen “#, xoxten took the occasion of his alleged impending departure to ask for subject's home address so that he could write fros LUPCPBe sudbjec§ ‘Stated that since he wight move it would be Detter for so. ton to write to hin care of the salon rather ticn to his tresent address. 8. Cn leaving oubjest Ko ton prozised to pass by the Salon again before he left so that he could say Goodbye te Subject. wallace @ xowten: ne ee ee