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” o i | SECRET Bartitling~ Curttaide, Cor igwa-tt ts Allon ‘ able pereom) courage, goo security and common sense. In gy zind te ia the ideal type of Latin American agent. It will be a real lees to the “Agency if we lose sight or contact with adolfo. I nave net few men more dedicated and more loyal. 5. | AVPAN-3, ‘Eeeruited by AMPAN-2 and so €lose to“eech other that we ered to trem as the ®"4cl2 last twins.® Ramon we in tne shipping business in Zavaca and eventuziis haa to leave. Hm (ost hia hore, care, furaishings, ete, His tiem is now Blaaning to send tim to Nicaragua, ami 1 nave recornendet Riz to the Niceragua desk (@i.[([ OS Be has ail the qualities aseribed te .. Adolfo SAN FZLAYG (see above) excent that he has never teen an imerican Boe citizen. He speaks excellent grglish. E+ is dedicated, courageous and '_. . S06% anxious to raintain contact with the Agency. It will be our loss if this is act done. , : 6. Bersert L, Barker. AMCLATT:A-1. Wife: Clara. Barker is a _ Cuban-American, Ex-Cantain in the U,3.A.F. See PKG end 201 for Zell bie data. I recruited barker in 1953, and he served feithfully est‘l . 8 had ta exfiltrate nir scawiire in 1960. He recruited a mmoer of 0": weduable agents for the Station (including AMCLAPTsh-5, wnich see} and  bed.em amaging encyclopedic kmowledge of Cuban persons, events and con- ‘ taete in all walks of iife. He wis a boxing manager and knew inzisately - @il Cuban personalities engaged in the sporting incustry. Se had @ cuspy- dog loyalty to nis case officers and to the Agency. Hie blgcrst weeknese - ae hie lack of discretion, He wis euch a loyal Americes (actually if get technically) that he would fight at the dicp of a hat if axyoue cast © . &spersions on the United states or its leaders. In the atecensere of -Gsatro'a Capa Ll magnt say chat thet was quite often. ae are ia the . process of helping him recover his lest imericen cittrenshin. then the Station reonang 1 would certainly recommend taat we contisue te waintais ‘Contact with Zerker. If nothing else he vould make a vonderful leg-nan for the Chief of Station. iis wife is an attractive Culen gel wis is bi- - Lingual e141 as belligerently ‘American® ag he is. barker, by locke and 3, by Ianguove, could caese either as an American or a Cuban - a gesuine — “ gsaet if be could be taught to submerge hie smericanion De [Esnea era anti _1 get Manolo throngh Joroe ATOMS SII {mow a ¢PTeono. in Cube asa result of the 17th ef aoril invagica). ' Kenoie 46-woreing for ag now io Miami, and I oresuse we have fai) bi _ Gata on hin. Varwlo'’s farily owned, along with Republi: Steel, whe big ' @tesl plant io ddévana which was nationalized by the Cestro rezise (Ciz. Antillana ce Assure, 3.4.). FVanole has @ brother, besiraoy wie would | glee be worth cultivating. Through his aminess ani far ily cozzections Vanolo tosw a greet sany people of operational interest. Une cf is friands var Devi GALVAIOR, although Manolo did not share SALVADOR» } polities) thiniing (satrocs left and aati-kaer ices), batese o- i. eijective a reporter a5 I ave evet encountered azong iat’ t. _a&