JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION Peleased under the John AGENCY : CIA Kennedy RECORD NUMBER : 104-10103-10109 kSsassination Records RECORD SERIES : JFK oOllection Act of 1992 AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 80T01357A (44 USC 2107 Note). mmm mem ase#:NWU 53294 Date: DOCUMENT INFORMATION n6—-13-2017 AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA FROM : WITHHELD TO : MEMO FOR THE RECORD TITLE : MEMO RE JORGE AJBUSZYC VOLSKY. DATE : 02/14/1977 PAGES : 6 SUBJECTS : CUBA WITHHELD CASTRO, FIDEL VOLSKY SZULC, TAD DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER CLASSIFICATION : SECRET RESTRICTIONS : 1A CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/21/93 COMMENTS : JFK36 : F16 : 1993.07.21.18:32:03:120470 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10103-10109 HW 53294 Docld:3235697T4 Page 1
HW 53294 14 February 1977 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: Jorge Ajbus:zyc VOLSKY (AMTRUNK-1) (201-352252) aka George VOLSKY, Zeray VOLSKI, "Chico" 1.  VOLSKY, a Cuban citizen of Polish origin, reads, speaks, and understand Spanish, English, Polish, German, Russian and French. He resided in Poland from birth in 1921 to 1939 following studies at Krakow University. He then reportedly served in the Royal Air Force Polish Group, spent time in a Russian prison in the 1940's then enlisted in the Polish Air Force Service under the British Operational Command. (VOLSKY provided conflicting information concerning this aspect of his background.) | 2. While in London at the end of WW II VOLSKY developed a pen pal relationship with a Cuban girl residing in’ Cuba. He allegedly was discharged from the Polish Air Force Service in 1947 at his own request. Unable to obtain a visa for Cuba, he obtained one for Ecuador. In transit to Ecuador: he stopped off in Cuba, obtained permission through friends to remain in Cuba and within a year married his pen pal girl friend. He reportedly owned his own business in Havana, described as a publicity office named, Dekora Studio S.A., from 1947 until he came to the U.S. in May 1961. During residence in Cuba he travelled frequently to the U.S. and Jamaica. He was’ avidly pro-CASTRO and publicly said that the future of the. world is socialistic. He allegedly was arrested and imprisoned ‘for a few weeks following the Bay of Pigs invasion, but was released and Doclda: 327356974 Page 2:
-* r van oof > ow . . a . . . allowed to leave Cuba because he had a valid U.S. visa in HW 53294 his passport. 3. Upon arrival in Miami on 22 May 1961, VOLSKY Visited Paul BETHEL, a friend and former Press Attache of the U.S. Embassy in cuba, (who was a suspected informant for the CASTRO regine.| At that time BETHEL was in charge of the Miami Office of USIA and contracted VOLSKY to edit a VOA program. - (BETHEL was employed by JMWAVE Station from October through December 1961l/as a writer-analyst for a detailed analysis of the overt Cuban press, on a trial basis, but was terminated following a Headquarters assessment that his reports contained nothing not already available through regular established sources.) | 4. As the result of VOLSKY's cultivation in Cuba of American journalists, in particular Tad SZULC, VOLSKY had influence with certain elements of the American press, especially the New York Times and The Washington Post. VOLSKY and SZULC had a close relationship in Washington and Miami, were in touch periodically by phone and personally, and conversed in Polish. VOLSKY was a source of information for SZULC and evidently influenced his thinking, manifested in a book written by SZULC entitled The Cuban Invasion -- The Chronicle of a Disaster, which was particularly critical of CIA, not only concerning its failure at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), but details of many other aspécts of CIA. 5. In August 1962 SZULC arranged an interview in Washington for VOLSKY with Richard N. GOODWIN, advisor to President KENNEDY. SZULC claimed that he had had a standing invitation for direct DoclIda: 32356974 Page 3
HW 53294 contact with President KENNEDY and others in the White House on Cuban matters since November 1961. During the missile crisis, in October 1962, VOLSKY had contact with Major Manuel PINEIRO Losada, Chief of the DGI, the Cuban external service. 6. In late 1962 VOLSKY devised a plan to split the CASTRO regime. SZULC got the State Department and the White House to buy it, and it was referred to CIA for consideration. Because SZULC's opinions carried weight with the Administration he sat in on State/CIA meetings concerning the plan. His influence is believed to be the primary reason the plan was so quickly adopted by CIA. In 1963, a State Department official in Miami was a frequent visitor of VOLSKY and kept him informed of State Department affairs. 7.  VOLSKY's contacts in Miami included a Raul CHIBAS Rivas, member of the executive committee of JURE (Junta Revolucionaria Cubana -. Cuban Revolutionary Junta) a Cuban exile organization. (CHIBAS, an early idol of Fidel CASTRO, defected ‘to the U.S. in 1960) and was suspected by the FBI of being a CASTRO plant in the v.8.if In March 1963 JURE created an intelli- gence group to infiltrate agencies of the-U.S. Government. A JURE official, named Jose AGUIAR, was making a list of CIA agents and their assigned tasks for JURE files and VOLSKY assisted him. On 6 June 1963 the head of JURE arrived in Miami from Puerto Rico, contacted CISNEROS of the executive board of JURE, and ordered that no further attacks be made on the U.S. Government as he was to talk to Robert KENNEDY in Washington DoclId:32356974 Page 4