04-10186-10274 ei S MeN ye CENTRAL ATELLIGENCE A AGENCY This material cootaing Infermetion ePerting ihe Nattonal Defense of the United Sitates within the meaning of the Eepionage ta Ret ‘8, UBC Here 18? and Te the wransmision of revelation of ebich tm any manner t am unauiherterd perme te pruhittted URN TO CIA SECRET Background Use Only NO FOREIGN DISSEM Do Not Reproduce: COUNTRY Cuba REPORT NO.  CSCI-316/00694-64 , SUBECT Guillermo RUIZ DATE DISTR. 21 August 1964 NO. PAGES 2 REFERENCES pare on «:1964 INFO. . piace g Washington, D. C. FIELD REPORT HO. DATE ACQ. August 1964 es hE G8 de ER SOURCE, | STATE THIS 1$ UNEVALUATED (MPORMATION. SOURCE GRaDINGS ARE DEMINITIVE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 19 TENTATIVE, A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. Headquarters Comments The following report isa 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 addresses take no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without firat checking with this Agency. Guillermo RUIZ, the Commercial Attache at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, is the Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence *DGI) case officer in Mexico for intolligence operations targe$tgd against some nearby area (areca unknown to source). Headquarters Comments 1. An untested source, in a report dated 9 June 1960, told @ representative of this Agency that Guillermo RUIZ, probably identical with the above Subject, was a member of Cuban G-2 who was presently working with the Ministry of Hacienda. His father was a Communist and chief of the Barber Union, 2. An untested source whe was a former employee of the Ministry of the Treasury stated in a report dated 8 September 1962, that Guillermo RUIZ, a militdiaman and militant Communist, was Chief of the Department of Eonstruction Expenses Studies in the office of the General Director of Finance in the Ministry of the Treasury. 3 SECRET 4 N&® FOREIGN DISSEM — 3 Peidad tase gatos : Peoagretog end Boetnndlc aca i | ota ARMY NAVY Aig NSA 1exx oce FBI 2 REP CINCLANT CINCSO # I&NS . (Mote. Field d.stebytion indicated by "2 ~.} B/SACEOR 1 WE/S/R 1 Ter/Lta Ti FC  LX-1640 ; Di/SA/MOG] (WE/MADA 2, CI /RES | ko PROJECT (amuUG/1) WH / © FOraAus WH/SA/B LY a }ttsasy |p SCI-316/00694- R i a {OCHO ED EDAAT bad @ WH/SA 7 (1), WET (2), Cr 4, RIDL [Mm | WK: LD? akc “oo 3/BK
14-00000 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSE ~2~ On 23 September 1963, a source who is an official in anti-Castro organizationy who is considered reliabit, but who does not nurmally report on intelligence matters, advised a representative of this Agency that he had received a letter from a friend in Cuba which stated the following information: . Orestes Guillermo RUIZ Perez who was sent to Mexico by the Cuban government as a Commercial Advisor of Cuba in Mexico, is a member of G-2 and was sent to Mexico to try to infiltrate counterrevolutionary groups. ; , A fairly reliable source stated that . uillermoe RUIZ of the Commerical Office.~ who has recently been emerging ag a ' fanatical Fidelista~ spoke out about the recent accord between Cuba and the USSR, saying that it was convenient for the USSR to keep on the good side of Cuba and thus keep a dagger in the back of the imperialists. Ambassador HERNANDEZ Armas, somewhat taken aback by RUIZ" language, pointed out that the relationship between the USSR and Cuba is based, above all, on the highest principles of international friendship. ‘Source further added that RUIZ has been showing himself to be quite aggressive, politically, in staff meetings and appears to be a violent partisan of the Castro regime. An untested seurce, in a report dated 27 January 1964, atated that he -had heard that Guillermo RUIZ had arrived in Mexico City, that he was-serving in the Cuban Embassy there in a diplomatic status, and that he was probably G-2. Source, who - knew RUIZ in Cuba, described RUIZ as having been born about 1939, being about five feet four inches tall, 135 potnds, and having red hair. According to source, RUIZ was anti-~- Communist in 1960. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSER \/R