(od-i0o72-i0187 ee | Background Use Only aa ~ Do Not Reproduce pon nn ee cen een a io ee : - —_— CASI ANON a PROCESSING AgION Chieti, SB Division os [no INDEMHG REQUIRED “UOUOOCSC”™*~<“Cs~SCs‘“sS~™S™S™SOSS soe —— lowty QUalINH O&5K TROM (~ “ Chier ot Station, Mexico Catyss). .. ee wei REDTOP AEKICK yr : ' Possible Identity o1 Mexican KGB. Agent (tnu) MORA ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES Reterence: HMMW-1/142, 11 March 1969 l. Reterence asked tor any recent traces on Juan MIGUEL de MORA Vaguerizo (201-239192), and whether he might be a personal acquaintance oi the tormer Mexican President, Adolto LOPEZ MATEOS, in an effort to determine whether he might be the KGB agent, (1nu) MORA, descrived by AEDUNOR. 2, <A carerul review of the Station tile on Juan MIGUEL de MORA Vaquerizo (please note that it has been determined that Suvnject uses "MIGUEL" as his patronym) has tailed to reveal any close connec- tions with Mexican government personalities, or his appointment to Mexican government delegations (per Paragraph 3 of Reference). While Juan MIGUEL de MORA has been consistently proe-Leit, and anti-Mexican. Government, and has had contact with Soviet Empassy officials in Mexico City, there has been no indication that he has any good high-level government connections (other than what might be routine press access). There was one<meeting (reported in HHMA-13323, 17 July 1959) among MIGUEL de MORA, Pavel "YATSKOV (201- 120123), then gtationed with the Soviet Empassy “tn Mexico; and a TDY Soviet (Mikhail Vegilyevich KREMNEV),.4an June 1959 wnich could be — considered to tave had some puzzling clandestine overtones; \there is nothing else, however, to conrirm that Juan MIGUEL de HORA is the KGB agent os the AEDUNOR report, As for*Juan MIGUEL de MORA's | recent activities, reterence is made to OFPA>8899 15 January 1969; HMMA~30427, 11 February 1969; and (OFPA=89615, 15 April 1968, which reveal that MIGUEL de MORA is currently “residing in Paris and employed by French radio/fV (ORTF). D ribution;: . a ¢S COPY - CA : memes ys. ukolP to Ve uyded trom sutoratic! meee ene nt eo areem eee mene om cee cence commer mete we eee cat cone pees quae meee te unnamed - CRNSS REFTEL AE TC , DOPATUN ST SBOL AND RUMBIR DATE : — CasiNahoR HOS sit 3 Prumate RET Lv 201-239192 : . oe
; ISPATCH SECRET | HMMA-37296 __ aan an oes a re co | © INVARIUN UL : 3. On the other hand, a detailed review of the thick Station rile on Dolores DE LA MORA Cepeda (201-821/19%) revealed several traces wnich Seem to fit the description o1 Paragraph 3 of Reterence, despite the assumption that the KGB agent reterred to was a male, The following points, which in the Station's opinion make Dolores DE LA MORA a iar more credible candidate nae the KGB agent, are offered tor Headquarters cunsideration: a, Dolores DE LA MORA Cepeda ie (0) was at the time) director and owner ot "Nueva Provincia," a newspaper in Lagos de Morenos, Jalisco, single and described as the youngest director oi a newspaper (UGFA-12768, uo December 1963), She was also descrived aS a tormer candidate tor deputy trom the Third District of Jalisco (HMM-5859, 24 August 1961). More recently she has been writing articlas tor "El Dia," “Siempre,” and "Sucesos Para Todos," all well-known leitist publications. (See MEXICO CITY 1175, 21 April 1967, and MEXICU CITY 2154, -l7 July 190%). In January 1905, Dh LA MORA married Luis SANCHEZ ARREOLA, Iniormation Chiet ot "xl Dia," but per LISAMPAN , 14 March 1968, she was divorcing her husband, aE geen teem ' 0. .< Dolores DE LA MORA* has had ‘close contacts with Cuban kmbassy oificiaals and has made several trips to Cuba (she has also vragged about her iriendship with Fidel CASTRO-~-see below) Since 1901, Altbougn she is known to be triendly witu the ' Cuban Ambassador (previous and present), it should be noted that: her mgst trequent contacts in the past, per LIENVOY, have been Ramon’ S INOBAS (201-334249), Reynaldo” CEPEDA (201-770733), and fanuel"VrGA" Perez (see MEXi 5052, Lv June 1963), all known Cuban intelligence ofzicers,> PRT OE Fb) wea Ketel at c. Simalarly,,DE LA MORAjhas had continuing overt (per LIENVOY) contact with Czech Embasey oificials, again identiiied iatelligence oiiticials, The first recorded con.act was with Jir{ BVESTKA (201-285441), Czech Consul, in August 1961; she apparently took up with SVESTKA’s successor, Lubomir"BLAZIK (201-20v043), and with SVESTKA's return (replacing BLAZIK), has once again resumed Her iriendship witn him. She was also 1n contact with Czeslaw LIMONT (201-755910), tormer Second Secretary jn the Polish bmbassy and known UB olficer., However, 21T° 18 curious to note that through ali the years of overt regular contact with such Cupan and Bloc officials, there has been p noticeable absence o1 Bimnllar regular overt contacts with Soviet ofiicials, dad, . Several reports in December ]900-February L961 involve Dolores DE LA MORA-wWith Munuel MARCUE Pardinas, leftist publisher, and his wife, and Luis MONTER Valenzuela, According to the reports, Dolores used her iniluence in obtaining printing paper trom the Mexican government-controlled agency (under the guise of buying {Lt tor her own Jalisco publication) for MARCUL Pardinas’ leitist publication, 'Politica," (NOTE; Luis MONTER Valenzuela is the brother of Ulise ONTER Valenzuela {201-82371¥] who has been ot SB interest.) \ — oS ra e, Dolores DE LA MOKA, despite her known leftist contacta, apparently hag had some. good high-level Mexican government connections, Per LIENVOY reports, she has been reterred to as _&@ relative ("pariente") o1 Francisco GALINDO Ochoa, prominent PRY official, who, until February 1908 when he was allegedly iorced to resign by President DIAZ ORDAZ, was the Presidential Press and Public Relations Onticer. Also according to LIENVOY, Subject has been extremely triendly witn Julio SCHERER Garcia, currently Director General ot “kxcelaior,' one of Mexico City's largest daily newspapers, nec ime en peeemns os ~“TRPAGE NO. Cl aAmarIOA TIAA
Deda ne ee ee of. 3 Memorandum for the Record dated 10 September 1962 by Willard C,. CURTIS contained the following information on __ Dolores DE LA MORA as reported by (LIENVOY-2{01DE LA MORA ‘ "trom Guadalajara, tried to get a job in the Presidencia, but ’ President LOPEZ MATEOS, deapit? her ‘high recommendations’ . personally decided againet having her work there. She then tried to get a job in Social Sxcurity with COQUET, He also turned her down, She i8 now ‘violently anti-Government’,” ppp ee ne See me teag ye ett g.  LITALUS-2 (a LIVEMPO agent who was assigned to keep Dolores [DK LA MORA under gurveillancve at the time) reported Yon” 29 October 1962 that. Dolore3 DE LA MORA was a close triend vt ot Luz Maria PATA Veln and also that she was the migetress of _£~ the Mgxican Senator, Manuel MORENO SANCHEZ, (NOTE; Luz 0 ao ZAPATA Vela, O11 getebex 94 the current Mexican Ampassador to the TYAN PARE? apr NE? aR De TONY Ian eT Age = eae a» oe "eo USSR, Carlos ZAPATA’ Vela, was used fs an accommodation address fet py KGB.otticer Stanislav SYCHEV | 203~-326963] while on, TDY 3 in foo eS“. Quito, ‘Ecuador 38, 28 May 1968], ) - Dd. h. Gstaun,-sreportes on 3 ‘January 1963. “(sent Headquarters : as attachment to HMMA-20546, 22 January 1963) that Dolores DE LA MORA told him that President LOPEZ MATEOS was "always asking her to tell him more Cuba~fLITAN CASTRO." She also said L she was leaving Mexico (ter Cuba- ITAMIL-9) as at the airport to See her oft) without her parents knowing it as they’ were not in favor of her triendship with CASTRO, LITAMIL~9 jalso reported on 21 January. 1¥63 that Subject had “told him ‘She was to be given a diplomatic post in the next regime. (Of course, ; _ gome of DE LA, MORA's statements may represent braggadocio on i her part ror (LITAMIL-9'P"lbene1it put undoubtedly, there yas some truth to’ her claims ot triendship with CASTRO and | acquaintance at least. with former President LOPEZ MATEOS.) rs : 1. (LITAMIL~yalso subsequently reported on 24 February 1963 ; that ne had “bumped into! DE LA MORA on 23 February 1963 and i _.., . 9@he told him that her uncle, (1nu) DE LA MORA, an architect -iis'-y fF married to a "White Russian" named "Tatiana," wanted to talk to Jo" *. S(LITAMIL-9)about a Cuban/Meican cultural exchange, A check of | | ~ ee 7 yStation tiles reveals that Supject's ustle is Enrig ba enackerd ~~ eDE LA MORA” y PALOWAR and his wite-is Tatiana ASKINAZY *DE LA « MORA‘ béft-y August 1918 in Russfa. They reside at Cerrada | “yo de 1a Cerca 62, San Angel, Mexico City. Tatiana has in the i past worked at "the Ibero-American University and has been noted per LIENVOY tor her contacts with Svyatoslav KUZNETSOV (201- 087222). (See the SPR on KUZNETSOV, HMMA-32689, 3 August 1967.) F A Station Memorandum tor the Record on Tatiana Askinazy DE LA * WMORA dated 11 July 190% gotpyxthat Tatiana, her husband, and her mother, Anna Dmitriyevn® ¥ASKINAZY”’ had all been known . socially to Jonathan L. WEENING.,. Although the DE LA MORA‘s ! . contacta with the Soviet Embasay were known, WEENING at the time rated Tatiana and her ae as, moat _jikely apolitical/ intellectual. BE fos. EEE j. According to LIENVOY on 15 , November 1967, Dolores DE LA MORA told Jiri SVESTKA, Czech Consul, that she wag about to leave on a trip to Caracas, Venezuela, as the "minister i had named her his representative" there, Other LIENVOY reports ot November 1967 indicate that DE LA MORA was probably referring to the Mexican Minister of Education, Agustin YANEZ, and on 14 December 1967, per LIENVOY, DE LA MORA told the Cuban Ambageador in Mexico that she had just returned trom a trip to +, South America where she "represented the Minister." fartss 2 APATA Vela (ae 14s ord) i . . LZavata Trae Cae hy bila. ar ame ; Vda ay 0 6 fee freee of! a eel ne bof PO oA gens, [por a ae or CT tor /Willard Cs CURTIS | peer b le Cr didal yo, ACM NER a OT Ste MOA 2047-28 GI? 2 ~ “GLABEIFICATION — : Bio cone emesis ene aw . {PF ] “ PAGE NO, oa]