(104-10186-10111 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY a This-matertal coutains tains thformation affecting the National Dafenss of the Ualted Gates esta the meaning of the Repicaage Lave, Tre ond TH, (he transmiastion of Tervlation ef whikh im any menner te om unguthertesd parma ts prohibited by wwe, 18, UsB.C. deco. TH ond *“ SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEN Countay Cuba . , REPORT NO. €X1-316/01239-64 SUWECINorberto HERNANDEZ Curbelo "DATE DISTR, NO. PAGES 2 12 October 1964 REFERENCES . pate of 1964 ° INFO. PLACE 2. Washington, -D. €e ‘DATE ACQ., October 1964 _ | FIELD REPORT NO. Tes 1S UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS Ane SErNTIVE APPRAISAL, OF CONTENT &% TENTATIVE, Source, A forner Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. . . Headquarters Comments . . a 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. 1. Norberto HERNANDEZ Curbelo, pseudonyms “Bucareli” and “Noel, is the officer in charge of the Guatemalan Desk in, the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Department - LN) in the Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence = DGI). 2. Source first met HERNANDEZ in 1959 when they were introduced by Ramon VAZQUEZ Montenegro. In mid-1959, HERNANDEZ - started working for the Cuban G-2 under the command of VAZQUEZ and Eduardo DELGADO.. When DELGADO was replaced as Chief of the. Check Up and Vigilance Bureau in 1960, HERNANDEZ was also discharged from the G-2. 3. In late 1960 or early 1961, HERNANDEZ started working for the Cuban Electric Company as a simple laborer for street work aAloag with another former G-2 member, “Pelencho.“ In 1960 or 1961, there was a public demonstration by the employees of the Cuban Electric. Company who were dismissed because they were suspected as counter-revolutionaries; HERNANDEZ attacked the demonstrators by hitting them with guns and arresting some of them. In front of the Electric Company was a Communist Party site and HERNANDEZ 4 $ 4 visited these offices frequently and was usually seen in the 4 3 company of new and old Communists. 3 2 SECRET SS 3 1 Gan te endeaposen i NO FOREIGN DISSEM IRE IP Girt ‘ON (cH/sA/Eon. tt wess/e Tlersira 7s) 1s21 F AMADA OL /RRA a2 E] CUNO 0 PROSICT (AKMLCL: 2) ar pty it as ft tf ci- 316/01239-§ eS A Teipzak ay KE Lt a A a eC rerstit/SA 7 (1), WEL (2), C14; RIDL = |“ s - Wx LD Aoi i Ct A See ya
14-00000 ’ 2 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSE CSCI-316/01239-64 . » aJo 4. In"December 19667. Ramire VALDES formed a group of twenty- -five ‘men who were former members of the 26th of July Movement in Habana and former G~2 nembers . VALDES formed this - group on the pretext of an expected invasion- from Guatemala and this group was to stay with . him if the ifivasion should take place. HERNANDEZ was a member of the. group. . : 8. HERNANDEZ’. was . transferred from ‘the Cuban Electric Company to the Departamento de Séguridad del Estado (Department of State Security = DSE) © and later to the: DGL 6. “ta September 1963, HERNANDEZ ‘spent a day in. Jamaica “in order to. establish contact ‘with: some Dominicans who were, according to. Source‘s “anformation,: to be transported to Cuba. He once tried to ‘get ‘to HMexieo, but was defied a visa... HERNANDEZ studied for a time ina “Revolutionary Instruction" | School in Habana; he seems to be very -.canvinced about the- government . 7. HERNANDEZ was born about 1939, is six feet one inch tall, 148. pounds, has a slim build,.a fair complexion, and short hair. He is marrigd and has a daughter who was born in 1962 or 1963. HERNANDEZ“. father lives in Camaguey Province, his mother is dead. HERNANDEZ‘ address is 70th Street #908, ‘between ‘9th and 11 Streets, Habana, Cuba; his telephone number is 29-5927. Headquarters Comment re etn ne ER ~ 1. The records of this Agency reveal no identifiable information on HERNANDEZ. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM ame 2 + memmat ets memes oe teen ait