(foa-to2te-10099 Be - mL sptsel; 15 October 1962 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/OA SUBJECT : Viola June COBB, C-83492 Reference: Request for Information and Review, 9 October 1962 i ‘ 1. As requested in the reference, attached : . hereto is a copy of the technical interrogation of Viola June COBB, (Please return this file to WH/3/Mexico for Subject's 201). : — ne thea cstuasiatceidate BAIL Tavestmate 2. Staff D collateral information, routed ; through CI/OA on 9 October 1962, provided no . ' derogatory information that is not included in . o£ Miss COBB'S 201 file: expulsion from Guatemala ! . in November 1961 after proof was obtained by the : ’ ' Government of Guatemala “that she was a Castro i agent whose mission in Guatemala was to distribute f pro-Castro and Communist propaganda among university students"; translator of a book written by former cok. Guatemalan President Juan Jose AREVALO, ''The rr ae Ho Fable of the Shark and the Sardines," which assails - BO government and business in the United States. Bo Ba sete vicinal he Leste SIGUE + ty 3. Below is a summary of information from an ? Subject's 201 pertinent to the reference, with \ attachments which are to be returned to WH/3/Mexico for inclusion in Subject's 201. Since Mexico City Station has consistently provided information concerning Subject and her relation to Station operations and agents, no further field traces will be requested unless requested by your office. seni BT De ch i. L ; a a. Viola June COBB, born in Ponca : . et . . . . SEGEET
14-0000 . + i Se * SHE ne ie, neta a xd Page 2 City, Oklahoma, on 24 August 1927, left home for Mexico City in 1947-48 after her father remarried. She has since lived in Ecuador, Cuba, and Mexico, and has been involved with the men and politics of a number of Latin Countries. During : these years she has developed a host of i : friends and acquaintances, both U.S. and ‘ Latin, that includes political leaders, journalists, diplomats, and men and women : from a number of professions, some of which do not enjoy general social acceptance. : Her taste in friends is omnivorous .and pO i : - he embraces (sometimes literally) and : —_ has access to extremists from both right . J 3 and left political groups and has variously been accepted and: distrusted by* both pro=- sO. : : and anti-vU,S. interest groups. (See. List of Associates, para. 3,d,1, below). First contacted by a KUBARK Staff Employee in ; Habana in. 1960 when she was employed. by oO i the government of Fidel Castro, she reported i 3 on Cuban personnel and activities until ¥ she left Cuba and for some time afterward. She was picked up by Mexico Station in . December 1961 when she had lost her access Lot wo Bs to Cuban targets and has been reporting , a on the activities and thinking of various Latin pro-Communist. revolutionaries including LINLUCK, a Communist Party i de dianc we oe hate a ottadinned sald BSS uit bat athe en a b. he has intentionall unintention wally Tidicated her employment with the U.S. Government.to a numberof {ntimates_and_acquaintances. Persons — suspecting her association with U.5. . -4 intelligence include the following: - Horacio GODOY, Argentine law professor; : a t mn are. ROG gE a a2 PO aba eA mameNimt fore 1H ee nenee at a Pe ahnge ae
1 ia 3 <r > + . t us 4 ety . * ry ° ~ ~~: geht cand , a : : ; Ls t 2 x i ! f 3 Page 2 . ay if ro * } : a Bayless MANNING, Yale University law : | professor; | Michael Sidney COLIN, U.S. citizen who 4 wa -: was associated with William L. Morgan 4 ; : i in Habana; 4 : ) Rosalbo ROCA, close friend in New York a i | who is a citizen of the Dominican Republic; 3 and Diane ALEXANDRIA, also a friend in j i New York City on resident visa. . c. In March 1962 she was called before ; 3 : the Senate Subcommittee on Internal z ‘3 i Security and questioned on Cuban associations . * “4 i and activities. To our knowledge, she eG oe i did not divulge any contact with KUBARK. 4 = 4 : As a result of this hearing, she was . i i contacted by Drew Pearson's assistant, . F Jack Anderson, and the interview resulted Ld in an article in Parade, the Washington s Post, 12 August 1962. ; 4 “yh Lox d. Attached to this memorandum are ie ‘a the following documents from Subject's iY Ja 201 (to be returned to WH/3/Mexico): ; , 1. List of Associates of Viola June COBB. (1960) 2. Memorandum to WH/3/Mexico, from Ss ‘ Do! WH/4/CI (on Subject) oO he : an 3. Memorandum for the Record (2 April ig. dF P| . - : 1962). Contact report with Subject in ; 4 concerning Senate Subcommittee rr ba 4 : hearing. 4 y 4. Article on Subject from Parade: 2 . ' . “Heet June Cobb.” . . ‘ wt eid BE. . a oan a Chief, WH/3  - rr om Opant seat en