Cuban~American...page 5 & She, Ep ite ante ete O . . Also on (Decmeber 5, 1963,) CIA headquarters cabled the Mexico (City station and identified this Cuban-American as” Gilberto Policarpo ‘Lopez, who was born on January 26, 1940. uy. ie, It stated also that Lopez was not identical with a Gilberto Ap Lopez who had been identified as active in pro-Castro groups in). Los Angeles. i5/ away | a oy Lerdouratees asssised CoP naren () 1964, the fonterte Station sen classified message (to (fo headquarter> Co neadquartery that Enrique Ruiz Montalvo, an agent of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police, naa SMe! 'Cinformed the CTA ) hat one of Ruiz's contacts | reported in late February, 1964, that an American citizen named Gilberto Lopes was involved in the Kennedy assassination. i6/ The message said Ruiz's contact reported that Lopes entered Mexico on foot from Laredo, Texas about 1200 hours on November. 13 carrying ms passport #319962, which was issued July 13, .1960 “17/ According to the dispatch, the contact related also oe Lopes proceeded by bus to Mexico City "where he entered Cuban embassy"; “it said that he left the Cuban Enbassy on November 27 and was: “the only © passenger for Cuba’ on flight #465. 18/_ te “gaia ‘the. 2 ‘contact oo reported that Lopes, was 5 issued 3 Mexican ‘travel form B, #24553, at Nuevo Laredo. Loy According to “the dispatch, Ruiz reported that he could not verify the contact! ‘Ss "information, — but thought it might be of interest to “the United States government. 20/
Cuban-American...page 6. The cable stated also that backygroynd information ipery concerning the fontertey base! s contact with Ruiz),was LW Gong contained in a dispatch dated March 18 which was being pouched. to neadquarters Gr Harch 2D 21/ - The. NEXT oft . b i On March 7, the Deputy Chief of the Mexico ou ste cabled a classified message to headquarters in which it was stated that the “information contained in the earlier dispatch She PUAch Alport which discussed Quiz*"s conta "jibes fully with ‘that provided [VSevnce ] station by (ITEMPO D early December 1963. " (22/ A 201 file ‘was > opened on Gilberto Policarpo Lopez by agency headquarters on December 16, 1963. 23/ At that time his records indicated that no earlier 201 file had existed. The file contains a "Review of 201 file on U.S. Citizen" by Barr Ginses an operations officer for the LAM/FI ‘component of the Agency. 24/ In that review the file was. classified as a "counterintelligence case (i.e., involving a foreign intelli- gence or security service) - al 25/ The date of ‘entry. of. that | . category in Agency records is. indicated as January 22, 195) in — “FBI Investigation In a report dated August 26, 1964, the FBI documented the results of its investigation on Gilberto Policarpo Lopez
Cuban-American...page 7 — cee which had been carried out in Key West, Florida. The report: stated that Lopez's _counsin, Guillermo Serpa Rodriguez, told the FBI that Lopez came ‘to the United Stated for the first time “some ~ | time after Castro first came to ‘power. 27/ He’ stayed approximately. one year and then returned. to Cuba. 28/ Rodriguez stated that Lopez returned to Cuba because he was homesick | and missed his family; he had parents and four brothers who still resided in Cuba.  29/ . Rodriguez stated also that Lopez", S brother Selito was a member of the Cuban militia at that time. 30/: another brother, Raimundo Policarpo Lopez, had reportedly been sent to the Soviet Union to study by the Cuban government; according to Rodriguez. 3l/ | | | Rodriguez told the FBI. that Lopez ‘returned to the United States in 1960 on'1961 because he was afraid he would be drafted into the Cuban militia if he remained in Cuba. 32/ | _The FBI learned ‘that Lopez married an American woman in Key. West in August, "1962. 33/| According to. Lopez* s wife, he worked - for a: “time with: the” Pepsi ‘Cola Conia “1962 and. av the Molina - : “ anc Murgia Bakery i in Key West, which was owned | ‘by cousins. 34/— She said that he also worked. for. a construction company ins 0 ne Tampa in: June, 1963. °35/
Cuban-American...page 8 Lopez's wife told the FBI that Lopez began suffering from recurrent attacks of epilepsy and had to be confined at Jackson’. | State Hospital in-Key—West in early 1963. 36/ She stated that’ “he was treated by doctors from Coral Gables and ‘Key West “for the -epilepsy. 37/ She stated that .she did not believe he had a history of epilepsy before coming: to the United States. 38/ She believed his convulsions were brought. on by nervous “tension _- and worry over his family in Cuba and may have been a reason for his return to Cuba in 1963. 39/ The wife said that in approximately November, 1963, she received a letter from Lopez saying he had returned to Cuba. 40/ The wife stated that she was surprised he had returned but that he haa mentioned he was going back to Cuba when he left for. Tampa in November, 1963. 41/ The wife gave her opinion that he returhed because of. his close relationship with his | parents. 42/ The wife stated that she received another letter, from him later from Cuba. 43/ | “According to the tetter, he. was working, as an elevator operator in ‘Havana. 44/ In that “Letter: Lopez said he had received some ‘kind of financial siiciande for the ‘trip from an- organization in ‘Tampa. 45/, ‘According: to _the® wife, Lopez did not have ‘sufficient personal funds to pay the SHPENSES to Mexico and Cuba. 46/ she said that he had ‘never had oo contact with Cuban refugee organizations to her knowledge. AT/-
Cuban-American...page 9 Rodriguez told the FBI that Lopez left Key West. in late 1963 to go to Tampa with the hope of being able to return to Cuba. 48/ Rodriguez said he believed Lopez wanted - ‘to return to Cuba because he was afraid | of being drafted into. y the U.S. -military. 49/ Rodriguez said Lopez was not involved. in. any Pro- Castro activity while.living in Key West, but that Lopez was. "definitely" pro- ~Castro. _ 30/, Rodriguez recounted that _- in one instance he and Lopez actually had a fist~ “fight over Lopez's pro- Castro. sympathies. 31/- In a report in March 1964, “the FBI reported that Lopez had attended a necting of the Tampa Fair Play for Cuba Committee _ on November 20, 1938. 52/ The report also stated that at a meeting of the group on November 17, 1963, Lopez stated that he had been refused travel back to ‘Cuba. He said at that ‘time that he was waiting for a phone call from Cuba to get word on his departure to Cuba. (53/ | | According to. that report in March, 1964, a member of the” a Tampa “FPCC stated ‘that she called, a friend in Cuba, on ‘Dacember 8; 1963 and. was ‘told ‘that oper had arrived sacely, “54. . The member |... had attempted to locate. Lopez in ‘Cuba through friends there because — = Lopez had hot delivered gifts to persons” in “Cuba from peo Opie in Florida as he had “promised to do. 55/9 The ‘member stated also that the & Tampa chapter of the FPCC had given Lopez. approximately $190 for the réturn trip to Cuba. 56/ Tne member Said that Lopez had gone to Cuba by way of Mexico because he did Rot nave a passport. 57/