(104-10186-10101 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY This mateme: acetacoe Infermating affecting the ‘Pracionel Oefenss of the Colted Blates witats we @eaning of the Espionace Laws, Tithe 18, THC Sum BS aps T+ the trenemimton OF feveletiog Of wna ln any manner Se seeumerens Seeme = ome ETURN TO.¢ SECRET Background Use Only NO FOREIGN DISSEM counrey Cuba /Doainican Republic REPORT NO.  CSCI-316/02546-64 SURIECT Baldenire CASTRO Garcia OATE DISTR. 14 December 1964 ° NO. PAGES . 2 ; REFERENCES ‘ pate of 2964 INFO. PLACE & Washington, D. C. DATE ACG... 1964 . FIELD REPORT NO. ° ‘Trees % LNSVALUATED INEGRMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ABE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF COMTENT 6S TENTATIVE, SOURCE, A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964, | Heaccuarters Comments Pulabicestontn. Sctonan athena tind The following report is one of a series containing personality information provided by the source and includes supplemental information from tne records of this Agency. lt is requested that the addressees take no aetion on any of the individuals rentioned in the personality reports without . first checxing with this Agency. 1. Source identified Baldemiro CASTRO Garcia, a Dominican, as a member of the Marxist-Leninist Movimiento Popular Dominicano (HPD) who was a student at the guerrilia warfare training school in Cuba. Source only saw CASTRO once, and this was at the home of the delegate of the’ pro-Castro Agrupacion Politica Catorce de Junio (arcs) in Habana. 2. CASTRO was described ‘by source gs being about 5°8" tall, thin, and wearing a nustache. Headquarters Comments: 1. he representative of the APCJ in Habana was probably Soerat es Isajus "Pupo" PEGUERO Sehourer. A usually eliable source reported in TDCS~314/05506-64 that PEGUERO will be removed from his position as representative of the APCJ in Habana, and will be replaced by Daniel MATIAS Abrfiu, who is now in Habana. 5 2. According to another source CASTRO is white, 5'10", has &] 3 & pock-marked face, kinky hair, and is "pop-eyed.” 3 _2 = onde ewe “4 SECRET . Sees] 3 NO FOREIGN DISSEM STATE { ora + amy NSA D REP CINCLANT CINCSO # I&NS CALSO SEN oa 10 sur “posGoy — tNote: Field dutribetam cere’ by ”5%.) Wi/Sa/703 2 NE S’R oT LTA El Cs WH GOON] TT TN-T82 vit 7SA/MOR_ 1: Ez sp3 [2 icr/pe-4 fm (p10 | SO PROJECT CAMMU yh. ; t 4 iv og: O%fnoe uf t C06 fie 12 erry cy : SCI~316/0254 16~6rh ts fe. { \p 1 r) ° t a i wu /S af SHAW! Lio [Semmens BEA Oils Wiss 8 (1), WE 1 (2),-CI 6, RID 1; WH a(1) [St M1/2/pa BS:LD;!! draft fcr’ POVATFEALAD
14-00000 iP \ Xo { | | | SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI =-316/07 546-64 . Qu In May 1962 an untested source, who was then a-member of the MPD, said that CASTRO was probably Secretary of Workers’ Affair Y FF ttee of the MPD. (See CS-3/511,325). an . feported in .CS<=3/561,001 that CASTRO arrived in neston, Jamaicd, on 18 September 1963 en-route to. Habana as a delegate to attend the Seventh Congrees of the International Union of Architects, to be held from 29.September to 3 October 1963. His passport,.No. 115933, issued on 16 September 1963, stated that he was born on 5 May 1928 in Santo Domingo and that he was an industrial employee. In Decenber 1963 an untested source, & member of the MPD, reported that the first rebel groups under the direction of the HPD had been formed at Hato Mayor and at El Setho, in the eastern part of the Dominican Republic, and that the Hato - -Mayor group, composed of about 150 nen from all leftist parties, was under the leadership of Roman Baldemiro CASTRO. (See TDCS 3/567,279). In October 1964 CASTRO is reported to have returned to the Dominican Republic from Cuba. (See CS-311/06078-64). CASTRO is married to Ana Mercedes ESPINAL, and they have six children. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM