(ro4-10786- toad. “ ae ! re : ¢ jpy we fh) G2 om Ot CENTRAL \L INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Thia meterial cunteine information effecting the Ketenal Defense of ihe United Hates within the meaning af the Eapionage Laws, Title i¢ TSC Rew TAI and TR, the transmtesiom of rereleticn of whkh im any manner tc an useuthertsed pera t prohibited by law SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM / country Cuba REPORT NO. CHL1-316/01642-64 SuMECE Ramon SINOBAS, Casado ' pate OTR «=«-13 October 1964 ; NO. paces 9 REFERENCES . _ pate of 1964 INFO, PLACE & Washington, BD. C. “pate aca. October 1964 FIELD REPORT NO. THiS 16 UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE Ghaninas ARE DEFINITIVE. aPrhalsat’ OF COntint iS TENTATIVE. source: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964. Headquarters Comments ' F The following report is one of a serics containing personality information provided by the source and includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency. a It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first checking with this Agency.- Source met Ramon SINOBAS Casado about September or October 1953 at the former headquarters of the Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Department - LN) of the Direccion General de Intelligencia (General Directorute of Intelligence - DGI) when the Department was located at Calle Sa and 94, Mivamar, Habana, Cuba. At the time source met SINOBSAS, SUNOBAS was assigned to the Departamento Ilegal(Illegal Department) of the DGI. Source recalled that SINOBAS, at the time of the meeting, had recently returned from a foreign assignment. Source further recalled that’ it was approximately at this time that Ramon Cesar CUENCA left on a trip to Poland. SINOBAS and CUENCA were very friendly. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8, 9,10,11,12 Headquarters Comments 1. In a report dated 17 April 1962, [from a resident of Mexico who has reported reliable information for about three years, it was reported that Ramon SINOBAS was the First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. . “ 2. <A fairly reliable source in a report dated 22 May 1962, said tha Ramon SINOBAS Casado, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in . ‘ . Sa T SECRET cote NO FOREIGN DISSEM = ae. | bia ARMY { navy AIR ‘ _ "REP CINCLANT CINCSO# T&NS | iNote. Frafd di san ibution indicated by “#%.} ot 09 Gd een qo isos” oO PROJECT ( AMMUEG i, .CSCI- 346 /016412- HH/SAZEOR. NESS ' SH ASA AMOR. LL WHSAL 7a teen BH/SASCI_ {A Be WAVE th nb ih « aoe 6 [or wuesa 7G), WEL (2), CH 4, RIDA eee pay ee a an ee ee 00. €
SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI - 316/01642-64 -2- Mexico City, was in Mexico because he is intelligent, diplomatic, and well acquainted with protocol, A usually reliable source with good connections in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City reported, in a document dated 27 November 1962, that Ramon SINOBAS Casado was the Charge | d'affaires of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. ; An untested source told a usually reliable source, ina report. dated 10 May 1963, that Fidel CASTRO wanted to know who the SINOBAS* were, 1.@., the father ‘and son who were located in the Cuban ‘Embassies in France and Mexico respectively; CASTRO described thes as “oxtremistas." In a 31 May 1963 report a usually reliable source with good contacts in Costa Rican Communist Party .circles, stated that the wife of Ramon SINOBAS Casado, Charge -d‘Affaires of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, is the former Marta Didier SOLIS Campos, a Costa Rican Communist. In a report dated 25 June 1963, the following biographic informetion was reported on Ramon SINOBAS Casado:; SINOBAS, First Secretary/Charge d'Affaires of the Cuban Embassy in México City, was born about 1939. He arrived in Mexico on 5 March 1962 and carried Cuban passport number 3/62/1108, His wife, Marta SOLIS Campos de Sinobas (Costa Rican), and his son, Ramon SINOBAS Solis, arrived on 4 May 1962, and carried passport number D/G@2/245. The SINOBAS' reside at Pachuca 127-203, Mexico D. F. SINOHAS is a suspected Cuban G-2 Agent. A usually reliable source, ina report dated 4 July 1963, atated that Ramon SINOBAS Casado, First Secretary of the Guban Embassy in Mexico City, was scheduled to return to Cuba on or about 19 July 1963. SINOBAS was not expected to return to Mexico. A usually reliable source, in a report dated 15 August 1963, stated that RAmon SINOBAS Casado, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City who is vacationing in Habana, “probably” will return to Mexico; however, SINOBAS' return is not certain. In a report dated 3 March 1964, a usually reliable source reported that Ramon SINOBAS, his wife and two children, arrived in Mexico on. 1 March 1964, enroute to SINOBAS' new embassy post in Santiago, Chile, Source described SINOBAS' wife as being common and cheap. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM _
14-00000 Ujay 10. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI-316/01642-64 aja A usually reliable source with excellent ‘contacts in the Cuban Embassy in Santiago stated in a report dated 4 March 1964, that Ramon SINOBAS Casado was replacing Pedro MARTINEZ. Pirez, Charge ‘d’Affaires of the Cuban Embassy ‘n Santiago. In this same report, 2Han eported that Ramon SINOBAS Casado’ ll. was. born’ oh Ju find that he carried Cuban diplomatic ‘ passport 64/104. itts wife, Marta SOLIS Campos was bofn on 25 December 1935, and carried Cuban diplomatic passport number 64/105. They. have two children, Ramon SINOBAS Solis, born 14 April 1962, and Luis Felipe SINOBAS Solis, born 1] May 1963. ‘In the 17 March 1964 issue of the Chilean newspaper, Ultima Hora, was a photograph of Ramon SINOBAS. Casado, the new Charge d’AltTaires - of the Cuban Embassy“in Santiago, as he presented his credentials i2. ‘to Julio PHILLIPPI, the Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, .on .17 March 1964. in a report dated 14 August 1964, it was stated that all Cuban officials in Santiago would be returning to Cuba via Mexico on 15 August 1964, because of the break in diplomatic relations between Chile and Cuba. Ramon SINOBAS Casado was included in the group. _ SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM