(404-10196-10249 te ; CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Thle melerial coateine informetion efecting the Netteas) Defense of the Uulted Gtates withia the meaning of the Sepionage Laws, Tite 16, USC Secs. 199 and Te, the transmission af revelation of which in any manner to an unauthoriged persona i prohibited by lew. SECRET Te NO FOREIGN’ DISSEM COUNTRY Cuba REPORT NO.  CSCI~316/01 209-64 SUNIECT Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza PO yj OATE OISTR. §=—«:16 September 1964 m \ ta | ee NO. PAGES . 2 . wo go% “ nererences  CSCI~3/779,352 oe ONe _. 27 December 1963 1964 , DATE OF \ INFO. pace a Washington, D. C. DATE AcQSeptember 1964 FIELD. REPORT NO. THIS 13 UNEVALUATE® (INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEPINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATSVE. source, A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence ‘ . Service until April 1964. Headquarters Comments ; The following report is one of a series containing personality { information provided by the source and includes supplemental ; information from the records of this Agency, It ia requested that the addressees take no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first checking with thie Agency. 1. Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza, nickname or pseudonym “Ricardo Tapia" or "Conchito,"” is the Cuban Commercial Attache at. the Cuban Embassy in Mexico. He is a member of the Direccion General oa de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence = DGI) and is the cutout for Venezuelan groups. Source saw him in Mexico in | March 1964. 2. Source described CONCEPCION as having been born about 1934, being five feet eight inches tail, 150 pounds, having black hair with a widow's peak, light brown eyes, a thin byild, a yhite . comploxion, and a round, clean shaven face. pee Headquarters Comments e 1. The Subject of this Agency's above referenced report, (fnu) CONCEPCION, was later identified in a photograph by the source of that report as Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza, . 2. An untested source, in a report dated 1 March 1961, identified Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza, as a sub-lieutenant in the Intelligence Department, G-2, of the Cuban Ministry of the Armed Forces’ § (MINFAR). 5 4 4 3 7 BeOwe 3 2 SECRET (SS 2 i NO FOREIGN DISSEM Sostnkesmt 1 oA ARMY J MAVY Are NSA MAWY AR NSA RX x FRI a __REPCINCLANT CINCSO # I&NS ss —CSC~CCC‘(C!tC™; (Nota: Freld Frald di dis tribution ladicated by “ #2") LX = 1680 $O PROJECT ( AMMUGYV1) CSCI-314/01 209~84 eee COOMDINAT ING, _ PETE Te a roraxs WH/SA 7 (1), WE 1 (2), 4, RID 1 18) ! icy /p
Vp 3. SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM CSCI-316/01209-64 -2= . A report dated 17 June 1963, stated that Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza had been appointed Commeréial Attache to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, replacing Benigno CASTELLAR Sanchez. The following information was received by a.mwember -of. a group of Cuban emigres” -trained in the technique ‘of ‘information collection and who haye provided’ useful, reports for two years, from an untested . source concerning information on Oscar ‘CONCEPCION ‘Wendoza.- “The: report was dated 4 November 1963. . CONCEPCION was born in Ciego. ‘de- Ayila,, Ge : Cuba, about 1933. .-He is. white, five eet: 8; call, 150 pounds, ‘and has brown hair... uc. was a ménber of 26th _ of July Movement, during the fight against the Batista regime. CONCEPCION arrived in thecity of. Catiaguey ‘shortly - after the. | ‘Hubert MATOS incident in 1959 and began ‘eniployment: as a tienber of the Cuban Intelligence Service, then called’ "G-2". According to rumors, he has taken courses in political and revolutionary instruction, and ‘is a militant member of ‘the Communist Party. He. has participated in almost all of the revolutionary trials in Camaguey, and also the execution of "Billy" PATTEN in March 1961. He participated in the wholesale arrest of persons at the time of the Giron invasion, and arrested a few thousand Camagueyans who were believed to be anti-Communist or opponents of the regime. CONCEPCION and Eliseo ALTUNAGA, also a member of the G-2, committed thefts in the city of Camaguey amounting to almost 2,000,000 pesos and for this reason CONCEPCION was transferred to Oriente Province. While in Camaguey he was Chief of Operations of the State Security Department. A usually reliable source, in a report dated 7 January 1964, said that on 18 December 1963, one “Augusto” was at the gate of the Cuban Fabassy in Mexico City to see Oscar CONCEPCION. “Augusto” has long been in seemingly clandestine contact with CONCEPCION and "Augusto". also appears to be engaged In assisting unspecified people, sometimes VYenezuelans, to travel to Cuba. . A usually reliable source reported that Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza arrived in Mexico City from Habana on 16 January 1964. He carried Cuban Diplomatic passport number D/63/403. an fotficial! airlist revealed that Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza arrived in Mexico City from Habana on 24 April 1964. On 11 May 1964, he arrived in Mexico City from Habana, with his wife, Marta CABALLERO Carder, and two children, Marta CONCEPCION Caballero and Teresa CONCEPCION Caballero. SECRET - Le, NO FOREIGN DISSE