404-10237-10120 | -— SECRET 18 June 1964 , ’ tr | ‘gTwoesis - a er bie request, 7n€@ Lt. Oliverio oo dateaio TOMEY Yasalle was recontscted ; a ee G deme G4 at big plage of resid- 7 @ase. Ee provided additiema) details. ‘and i cna-xeewestied Owiek GOMZALEZ apd one “GOCo" ag possible lesda to; GRANGSA Gobel, = => PARA ENO AREAL ES ANCES RO SMR HER Netgenn =”
14-00000 SECRET 13 Ame 1966 } ‘ easy anaes ene ee SUBJECT: Recentact of Gliverio A; TOMED Yaeslie. (363~869206) a, At 1730 bours, & Juse 64, the undcersigued was advised a¢@ bie residcace that a Mr. TOREU (Subject) had called ihe — ( eecurity number qivem him (351-6161) aad left the message that he would lise to tala agaim with Paul Stroud (the undersigned) . . epytime after 120% houre, & Juse, 2. Upes arriving at TOMEU’s apartment (Apt. 363, 1028 : Vahler Place SB, High Poigt Apartment House, ®ashington, D. C.), . 1830 hours, @ dune, TOMEU indicated to Bis two daughters he weuld ike to have seme privacy and they sad his wife, Caridad, left the epertucat. apolog Pee. I iled the saze . a@ that of Be reiterated : » Walle im bidiag tS Gscipe Captiee by the Cuban Goverment i Gabsoqeent to hig infiltration, he knew oaly the firat aamee of with whom Be came im contact, but then adaed he xnew |) 4a whose house he wae hiding, because she. ~ one of his infiltraticoa team... . @an the a : 4. Gm several cccarions, according to TOMED, he waa seated | ' @@ the table ta Ana's house with several other people, One of | G@hese dnzcividvals, knowa to TOMEU omly as “COCO,” was deecribed . OG Che mcr tay CO 3 There wae sot, however, aay disctesions in which TOME recalla[_ jer hie political - @@eentbhies beyiey been dlecueged. Aeverding te TOMED'’s recele -. Reetion 1% was “COCO” who wae aeeceiated with! | and he @ee got avere of any releticarkip. betrece 5 ang &ltheags TORR@ had ne iafermetion ag to what finally sappened te. _}, Bi@ imgiltration team mate, he suggested ee sobuaeiaag, 8 meer OREO Les \; \ et ere svatiable they aay be eble te identity “Cooe" cua-proviee date om hie acceseability for ___-&, One Catel COALS, former Calef of the Bavana Fire 7 Degartmeat, was identified by TOMEU ag ancther possible lead ' : ag aR REA TTO TS SONY Cy th Ran el TS hes mn HN a ia —
14-00000 SCCRET ~2- : whe would know | ___} TOMKY sffirmed Osiel was previcusly _ : with MEHUTO Gufierrer in the Second Front of Eecaghbray. Geile) was under asylum in the Brazilian bubassy (sic, Argentine ; Eabassy?), when TUMEU geined political asylum. . then Osiel , gimally received hie saf¢ conduct from the dabasay, he went to Puerto Rico and, TOMEU postulates that Usiel 4@ now ageia with MEWOTO in either the United States or Puerte Rico, 6. Two snap shots (to be returned) vere provided by . TOMAU of bimeelf and six other individuals who were in aeylue at ¢ ®, in the photograph ia : ie seated, a8, frce Fig } Olaverio Toms, [ . (believed to be ; io % (U8), Jorge Del VALLE 7), and Owiel GONZALEZ (US or Puerto Rico?). 9. Up-n completing the debriefing, Stroud and TOMEY : “euchanged gmall talk" for a while until TOMEU finally stated @heat he still wished there wae something more he could de to help free Cuba, and asked “What do you think I should do?“ Stroud replied that no person could eéally sake that type of éeeigioa for another individual, and countered by asking TOMEY. ebat alternatives he had in mind, other than remaining in the WB Army ag a career military officer, G. TOMBU replied that, of course, he was once an 7 ’ i agriculturaliest, but that there were few job opportunities 4a: on which he could apply his past experience. His sister had also : esked him if he felt he and uis family would want to live with her im Spain or Mexice, but he didn't think too much of this. - idea, He then atated that he had been asked. by Manuel ARTIME. co take @ job ae an instructor, Without indicating any Gs60¢iation of even awareness of ARTIME's activities, or of A4RTIME's contact with TOMEU (as indicated in TOMEU's 201), Q TOMES wae asked what he thought of ARTIME'a propositioca,. : TOMEV stated that he would no longer follow anY B28 68.8 ~~ Pe dudividual or as a leader, because a man's Adeals, outlook, f - and objectives change with tine, For example, the people of Bonn Srey Gaba followed Fidel because of the ideals he advocated, When : : Fidel took over, hie seconplishasnis gradually becane: Gadtey i : : Loot Giiferent from the ideals he had espoused. TOMEU continued poo RR by Gaying he would “no longer follow a man, One could only Z an a Grust hig ideals or am orgsaization which followed those ideals, since a good. organization would-be less likely of beiag controlled by a single maa." When saked for an exenple : of the type of organization he had im mind, TOMEU replied ko A a WAG most favorably inclined towards the ideals and goals of ; a. the JURE, (The JURE or JEC is an organization created by  - Po eee Hanolo RAY Rivero around # nucleus of former 26 July Movement. — a leaders, Hee nemo and attachment dated 23 July 1063 from Johs ee Sugh Crimmins, Coordinator of Cuban Arf ABA, Department i 18. at Btate in TOMKU's 201-283206.). [oi a | duciuded irom auiémelia __ SECREF teuagrading ead dectasaitiasties - baa
14-00000 SECRET a @. I¢ should, perbeps, be noted here that in am informal exuchsage ith Mre. Domald WEBSTER, TOMEZU's supervisor at the Defense Leaguzge lastitute, Anacoatia Havel Annex, 4 June 64, 7 Gre, VERUTER yoluateered the information that “rll ef the other ‘Brigade students bere’ have told me they think very higaly eof TOMED, emd that he ig a very brave man, because he and hig feeily were very veslthy in Cuba and he gave at atl ap to ge * dato exile aud fight the Castro Begize.” er eee dese sadiag ong =f Lea tttlaactitaatiog