104-10326-10103 SECRET NOFORN NOCONTRACT WNINTEL CDS : * . . —— C 19298CTAA 58810308522352MSR 91-3563687 S / / **** MTD REPORT ***, SECRET FRP , 73 CONF: NC/PM INFO: DOMDS, FBIS6, IRL, KEY, MILTD, NC/INTEL, NCREPORYT, ODPB, ODPD, ODPG, ODPR, ODPS, ODPW, OPCTR/AFLA, OPCTR/USSR, TDSORT, Z22ZA, FILE, ALA/MC/CC, ALA/PO/AF, ALA/PO/LA, ALA/SA/D, ALA/SA/N, Nnoven 3, DOSO/AODCI, DOSO/IABCT, ICS/HC/LA, LDA/P, LDA/V, NIO/EUR, NIO/GPF, nag OMS. eAPOD, OS/REG, OSO/SPG, OTE/ISO/LY, SOV (22/P) 4. i MSR PAGE 001 | TOT: 2622352 MAR 91 CIA 588103 L. t TE a a i oR Ee - CONTROLS : I: S EC R E T NOFORN NOCONTRACT WNINTEL | 2622352 CIA 588103 fs FO: DIRNSA, DEPT OF STATE//INR, DIA WASHINGTON DC, - WHITE HOUSE SITUATION ROOM, USCINCLANT NORFOLK VA, ia DEPT OF COMMERCE. SERIAL: TD-OO-B-321/02764-91 BODY: . f PASS: NSA FOR ZKZK OO DLS DE (FOR NSOC). | | WARNING: INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE 1 REPORT CLASS SECRET --WNINTEL~-NOFORN--NOCONTRACT | DIST: 26 MARCH 1991 GOUNTRY: CUBA SUBS: BIOGRAPHIC AND PERSONALITY INFORMATION ON CUBAN OFFICIALS | j DOT: JANUARY 1991 i | SOURCE: | PHIS REPORT RESULTS FROM CONTACT BETWEEN A U.S. CITIZEN AND SEVERAL / TUBAN OFFICIALS WHO Mos?T CERTAINLY EXPECTED THEIR REMARKS TO REACH U.S. OFFICIALS.) a - TEXT: 1. JORGE ((RISQUET)) VALDEZ SALVANA, A MEMBER OF THE POLTTIBURO OF THE CUBAN COMMUNIST PARTY (PCC), USED AN EARLY JANUARY 1991 CONFERENCE ON THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS TO LAMBAST THE U.S. FOR NOP INCLUDING CUBA AS AN EQUAL PARTNER IN MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS oN A WIDE VARIETY OF POLITICAL AND REGIONAL ISSUES. RISQUET, WHO HEADED THE CUBAN DELEGATION TO THE MEETING, STARTED HIS DISCOURSE WITH THE PARTS CONFERENCE OF 1899 AND CONTINUED IN A VITRIOLIC V1 WHEN THE U.S. RESISTED INCLUDING { UNTIL HE REACHED THE LATE 1980S, LIATIONS TOWARD THE WITHDRAWAL OF CUBAN AND SOVIET TROOPS CUBA IN NEGOT] > POWARL ee rp Sn SE a ni apenas ge | FRE ANGOLA . (SOURCE. COMMENT : IN™-PERS QNAL<¢ CONVERSATIONS , RISQUET ~ Ke ml comaes IN NOFORN NOCONTRACT WNINTEL SECRET Page:
13-00000 ON AS TO PHILOSOPHY, ( (POLLO) } PRIVATELY IN HIS OWN" OFFICIAL CUBAN ASSUAGE THE CONCERNS OF A WI THE SECRET NOFORN NOCONTRACT WNINTEL PARTICULA GARCIA, A SEPARA iT SPOKE ASSISTANT, DURING THE CONF (GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT HE IS UNREPENTANT AND HAS BEEN COMPLETELY U NAPFECTED BY CHANGES UNREFPORMED--THAT HE IN COMMUNIST AND MARXIST RLY IN THE USSR AND TE CONVERSATION, POSTTION. POLLO WENT TO EASTERN INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF THE SAID THAT RISQUET HAD DURING THIS SPEECH AND THAT HIS VIEWS SHOULD NOT BE ESTERN PARTICIPANT IN THE MEETING. BUROPE.) JORGE PCC, SPEAKING “GONE OFF SEEN CONSIDERABLE LENGTHS WAS ESPECIALLY INTERESTING THAT POLLO, WHO NEVER ERENCE WAS THE ON E SENT OUT DISTINCT IMPRESSTON L 1989, AFFATRS ANDREY EXPR AN HEAVYHANDED 2. 2D CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES, HERNANDEZ TERMED RISQUET AN "OLD THINKER LIBERAL WING RISQUET IS 0 POSITION AS PARTY NOT IMPORTA CLEAR THAT RISQUET IS (SOURCE COMMENT: RISQUET MADE A LOOSE CAN JRING ANO OF THE L HIS WAY SEC HERNAN pT, DUR ( (GROM ESSION OF DISG BFT BY NON. ) THER PRIVATE DISCUSSION, CONVEYED MUCH THE EADERSHIP." OUT OF THE INNER CIRCLE. RETARY DID NOT NECESSARILY MEAN JENT ACTIONS HAVE DEZ SAID, BUT SUBSEQ NO LONGER AS INFLUENTIAL ING A SIMILAR MEETING 3. SERGIO ((D EXTENSIVELY EB IN THE ME HIS PART. DEL VALLE ASPECTS OF T THE SCENE. (HEADQUAR THE ARMED FORCES FROM MINISTER OF INTERIOR, 1979-1985.) RUMORS POSITION, ENOUGH FOR THE JOB. SEEMED TO STE FROM HIM GENERALLY STAYED TOGETHER. VALLE'S PERFO INTEGRAL PART OF AWAY THE 4. BRIGADIER INITIALLY WAS IDENTIFP INTERIOR BUT LATER AS AFFAIRS, WAS: RLSO PRE SAID THAT HE IS 1962, WENT TO MOSCOW, THE N PINALLY PURGED AGAIN INTEGRATED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION THE ORI WAS THE PRECURSOR OF THE PROBLEMS WITH HIS RELATIVES DID NOT CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR SAID PROUDLY, BECAUSE CUBANS ARE ABOVE MAKING PEOPLE SUFFER FOR _THE FLAWS OF WHEN ASKED ABOUT HIS=AREA OF RESPONSIBiDG BY THETR FAMILY YKO)) A BEAR HUG; GROMYKO UST.) EL VALLE) ) ETING, DESPITE PREVIOUSLY GAVE A REPORT, IN SPANISH TERS COMMENT: 1961 To 1968. 1968-1979, ANOTHER CUBAN PARTICIPANT INDICAT HAVE SURROUNDED DEL VALLE SINCE HE LEFT HIS MINISTERIAL THESE RUMORS, ACCORDING TO THE CUBAN OFFICIAL, HAVE FOCUSED CHIEFLY ON THE FACT THAT DEL VALLE WAS CONSIDERED NOT TOUGH FOR WHATEVER REASON, DEL VALLE ER CLEAR OF THE REST OF HIS DELEGATION AND THEY STAYED ; THIS WAS NOTABLE BECAUSE THE REST OF THE GROUP THIS SHOULD BE CONTRASTED WITH DEL RMANCE DURING THE 1989 MOSCOW CONFERENCE, WHEN HE WAS AN CUBAN GROUP. } AND WHO SEEMED TO BE TO UNDERCUT THE POLLO WAS THAT RISQUET RAPAEL IN MOSCOW DURT POINT OF GIVING FORMER MINISTER OF FOREIGN JIMENEZ DID NOT PARTICIPATE , ON THE MILITARY HE CRISIS FROM THE CUBAN STANDPOINT AND THEN FADED FROM DEL VALLE WAS VICE MINISTER OF HE SUBSEQUENTLY SERVED AS AND MINISTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH, ED PRIVATELY THAT THERE IN THE ROLE OF DELEGATION HEAD. THE IS CONSIDERED A ( (HERNANDEZ) }, SAME MESSAGE. WHO IS CERTAINLY NOT IN THE HERNANDEZ ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE LOSS THAT OF HIS RISQUET WAS MADE IT WAS. WG LATE AS HE ONCE 'S FACE WAS PILLED WITH EXPRESSED INTEREST ON —] GENERAL FABIAN ( (ESCALANTE) } FONT, PCC-CC, WHO TED AS THE VICE MINISTER OF THE MINISTRY OF SENT AT THE MEETING. —E THEREFORE iREQUd EPHEW OF ANTBEL THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAI, CALANTE SPEAKS NETTHER — TRANSLATOR . ( (ESCALANTE) } , ESCALANTE WHO WAS PURGED IN WAS REHABILITATED, RETURNED TO CUBA, AND IN 1968. (ORT). PRESENT-DAY PCC.) ESCALANTE'S FATHER WAS A LEADER OF THE (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT: THESE POLITICAL ESCALANTE, HE NOFORN NOCONTRACT WNINTEL SECRET ow Q
13-00000 AP THE TIME OF THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, ‘HEAD OF COUNTERESPIONAGE OF A SECTOR" CHIEF OF COUNTERESPIONAGE FOR THE LOOKS TOO YOUNG TO HAVE HELD 7? HAS BEEN VERY W PERSONAL RECONNAISSANCE MISSION OF CUBAN EMIGRE HE AMERICA I ENEZUELA. P< 5 “INTERROGAT THESE LINES, INFILTRATION OF U.S. THE MONGOOSE PROGRAM. AT THE TIME, HE SAID, NO HAPHAZARD. CUBAN ASSET THIS BY ADDING THAT H INTELLIGENCE" MAFIA WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF U.S. FP. KENNEDY. RMS CACHE. (JANUARY 1991) F » « SECRET NOFORN NOCONTRACT WNINTEL ESCALANTE AND THEN SAID T EXPLAINED uULS. | OCTOBER 1960 AND DESCRIBED THE TRIP IN SOME DI I? THE GROUND, INCLUD: HAT HE WAS THAT HE WAS ESCALANTE IAP POSITION IN 1961 OR, ALT ELL PRESERVED. ERNATELY, ESCALANTE INDICATED THAT HE MADR A CAMPS IN CENTRAL BTAIL. ADMITTED THAT CUBA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A NUMBER OF UPRISINGS IN AMERICA DURING THE 1960S AND THAT REVOLUTIONS WHICH NEVER QUITE GOT OFF HE DID IN FACT INSTIGATE SOME [ING ONE IN CUBA WAS NOT, HOWEVER, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FAMOUS 1962 CUBA DID SUPPLY THE SANDANISTAS, ING" ESCALANTE ESCALANTE ONE DOES HOWEVER, IN THE U.S. HAS ESCALANTE BOASTED THAT HE ALL SUSPECT ACTIVITE WHEN ASK SAID T GOVERNMENT IN 1962, ACTIVITIES ABROAD. “SOME ELEMENTS OF THE CIA OPERATIONAL ARM" WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR "CIA AGENTS" DURING LITTLE KNOWLEDGE ESCALANTE OF "POSITIVE THE 1960S. SAID THAT THERE WAS EXTENSIVE CUBAN ES IN MIAMI DURING THE 1960S, INCLUDING ED HOW MANY CUBAN AGENTS WERE IN MTAMT HAT HE DID NOT KNOW SPRCIFICS. BECAUSE CUBAN RECORDS FROM THE PERIOD WERE SO HE STATED ASSURINGLY THERE WAS NO HIGH-LEVEL ALTHOUGH HE QUALIFIED ESCALANTE STATED. ALONG IN PACT, ADDED THAT HE BELIEVES IN COMBINATION WITH THE PRESTDENT JOHN LATIN TELD: NONE. WARNING : R EPORT CLASS SE CRE & SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLV. ED--NOT RELEASABLE | DECL: -~-WARNING NOTICE-INTELLIGENCE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS--NO?T OADR DRV HUM 4-82 BY J URECURUED REPORTING OFFICER. ALL PORTIONS CARRY CLASSIFICATION AND _ CONTROLS OF OVERALL DOCUMENT . END OF MESSAGE SECRET. > -ORTG) NC/NCPM END OF MESSAGE ; SECRET “HEADER? Zone Mot in message ; : NOFORN NOCONTRACT WNINTEL SECRET Page: