[osctoreectoaaay 3° mt 4G tO de OF (CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Thia méterial con tana te Pormathun edeeting ae Wathwoal Defense of the Tarr: Katee within the meantng of the Bapionage Lawa, Title 18 UBC Gera 798 and TRE the tramassissce er revelation of which in ant ammtiwe WY am unauliiriend person te proditited ty law. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSER country Cuba — REPORT. NO. «CSC I- 316/01 230-64 suasec?Y Felix PITA Astudillo CATE CISTR, 5 October eos \ NO. PAGES 2 9 0 Ss , EEFERENCE s 2s ow s Saves S a WO pace 4 Washington, D.C. oe bate AcQ, October 1964 EAD REPORT NO. THIS 6s UNEVALUATED INAGRMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DESNITNE APPRAISAL OF CORTENT 1S TENTATIVE, . : source: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. te Headquarters Comments The fallowing report is one of a serres containing personality information provaded by the source and includes supplemental information from the records of this agency. — It 18 requested that the addressees taxe no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first checkang with this Agency. Source identified a photograph o1 Felix PITA Astudillo as being a member of the Direccion Genera} de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Iatellagence - DGI). 1,.2,3,4, Headquarters Comments 1. In a report dated 11 August 1962. Felix PITA was identified as the Cultural Attache at the Cuban Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. 2. Ia a repert dated 14 January 1963. it was reported by a group of Cuban enmigre's trained in the techniques of anformation collection and who have provided useful reports for two years, that Felix PITA Astudillo is an assistant (sic) at the Cuban Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. 3. <A defected Cuban intelligence officer, in a report dated . February 1963. stated that Felix PITA Astudillo 1s _ the son of Felix PITA Rodriguez. the Communist poet. During the Batista regime PITA lived in Venezuela. In 1961 he attended the WINREX Diplomatic School. he also attended the ‘Escuela de Cuadres Politicos (the Communist Party political SECRET fesse] NO FOREIGN DISSEN severing ASR ‘4 ° ' 1 sa/cr 4: A972 BID! aN il moo ; vane ~ nad . $ ~ ‘ jr? WH/SA 7 (1). WE E (2). CE 4. RID? e ak at . Ae
wer 4. 3. * SECRET NO FPUREIGN DISSEW -CSC1-316,/01230-64 we Dew indoctrination school). Source described PITA as having been born about 1941] in Cuba, being about five feet cight inches tall, 136 pounds, having light eyes, mediumedark hair, a slim build, and white. Source did not know his Communist Party status. ne A fairly reliable source, from a report dated 16 February 1963, stated that Felix PITA is the son of Felix PITA Rodriguez, author, newspaperman, and possibly a Communist. PITA was born about 1941. LPITA passed through Mexico City enreute to Latin Ancrica as a ; ‘Cultural Attache about April or May 1962. Source also stated that _ PITA was rather. covardly and timid, that he was afraid to leave the embassy premises and would not go out on the streets alone. PITA appeared to be an opportunist rather than a Communist or pro-Castro and possibly obtained his job through his father‘s influence. in a report dated 12 March 1963, Felix PITA was identified as a Cuban intelligence officer under cover as the Cultural Attache in the Cuban Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM