104-10326-10058 SECRET ana cen een [ / | DISSEM PER SOP # 122 SECRET PRP: , , 007 INTEL CONF: IID/NOPRNT INFO: EUR/BCIR, EUR/IB, IIDIRPS, INTELOUT, LA/COG, LA/MCGCEN, MDSX, NCREPORT, NR/EX, ODPD, ODPR, FILE (0/P) 96 2899457 ISR PAGE OOL TOT: 1905082 JAN 96 DIRECTOR 604608 |S ECR & T NOFORN INTEL 1905082 DIRECTOR 604608 TO: WNINTEL DEFERRED INTEL MXBLAZE MXSANCTUARY SLMERLIN ZRWAHOO SUBJECT: RELAY OF INTEL CABLE FOLLOWING IS TD-OO-K-323/01241-96 FOR DISSEMINATION PER FIELD _DISSEM LINE, BASED ON AND REPLACING | OKAY FOR PASSAGE TO JULLAD. NO FILE. DECL: Ki CL REASON 1.5(C) DRV FROM HUM-4 BY RECORDED REPORTING OFFICER. COMMENTS : NONE TD-O0-K-323/01241-96 WARNING: INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE REPORT CLASS S HE C R E T--WNINTEL- -NOFORN DIST: 18 JANUARY 1996 COUNTRY: CUBA SUBO: SUSPECTED CUBAN SECURITY PENETRATIONS OF THE CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS/DISSIDENT MOVEMENT IN CUBA DOT: 19382 - MID AUGUST 1995 SOURCE: | SUMMARY: LEADERS OF THE CUBAN CIVIC CURRENT (CORRIENTE CIVICA CUBANA), A DISSIDENT GROUP IN CUBA, SUSPECTED THREE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP, AND THE FORMER HUSBAND OF A GROUP MEMBER, OF BEING CUBAN SECURITY SOURCES OR PENETRATIONS. THE LEADERS OF THE DISSIDENT GROUP DID NOT HAVE ANY SPECTFIC EVIDENCE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS WER CONNECTED TO CUBAN SECURITY, BUT INCIDENTS IN WHICH EACH OF THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE INVOLVED LED THE LEADERSHIP TO BECOME SUSPICIOUS c OF THEM. TEXT: 1. AS OF MID AUGUST 1995, THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CUBAN 1c Tr, “SECRET
13-00000 SECRET MEPNO : 96-2899457 ENST : INTEL PAGE : 2 Qo ee ee BESSTDENT GROUP, CUBAN CIVIC CURRENT (CORRIENTE CIVICA CUBANA - } ccc), WAS CERTAIN THAT THE™CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND~DISSEDENT ~~ MOVEMENTS HAD ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF CUBAN SECURITY, PRIMARILY THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MININT), AND THEY BELIEVED THAT MININT WAS TRYING TO PENETRATE DISSIDENT ORGANIZATIONS . CCC MEMBERS CONCERNED OVER THE GROUP’S SECURITY TAGGED FOUR INDIVIDUALS WHO EXHIBITED BEHAVIOR OR ACTIVITIES IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS OR DISSIDENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUGGESTED THAT THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH MININT. THE INDIVIDUALS WERE JORGE (GONZALES) ), VLADIMTRO ((ROCA)) ATUNEZ, GUILLERMO ((FERNANDEZ)} DONATES, AND RAFAEL ((ALCIDES)). r 2. THE CCC LEADERSHIP WAS VIRTUALLY CERTAIN THAT JORGE GONZALEZ, OF THE CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT (MOVIMIENTO CRISTIANO LIBERACION), HEADED BY OSVALDO ((PAYA)) SARDINAS, WAS A CUBAN SECURITY PENETRATION. DIRECTORS OF THE CCC NOTED THAT HIS QUESTIONS WERE USUALLY SO PENETRATING AS TO SUGGEST INSIDE KNOWLEDGE . A TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE CCC WAS DIRECTED AGAINST GONZALEZ, PROVIDING HIM WITH MOSTLY BOGUS INFORMATION KNOWN ONLY LO THE CCC MEMBER AND THE CCC LEADERSHIP. RECORDS OF THE DATE THE INFORMATION WAS PASSED WERE KEPT BY THE CCC. THE INFORMATION LATER SURFACED THROUGH MININT DURING THE COURSE OF MININT {NTERVIEWS OF DETAINED CCC LEADERS. THE CCC LEADERSHIP BELIEVED THAT GONZALEZ MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN VENEZUELA AS OF MID AUGUST 1995. 3. VLADIMTRO ROCA OF THE CUBAN DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST GURRENT (CORRIENTE SOCIALISTA DEMOCRATICA CUBANA), WHO IS.ONE OF THE CLOSEST ASSOCIATES OF ELIZARDO ((SANCHEZ)) SANTACRUZ OF THE CUBAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION (COMISION CUBANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y RECONCILIACION NACIONAL), CAME UNDER CCC SUSPICION AFTER AN INCIDENT IN 1992. IN THAT YEAR, SHORTLY AFTER THE LETTER BY CUBAN PROFESSIONALS TO THE IBERIAN AMERICAN SUMMIT WAS PRESENTED, CCC CHIEF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR VLADIMIR ((MARTINEZ-AMORES)) ALVAREZ WAS VISITED AT HIS HOME BY TWO MININT OFFICERS. THE TWO OFFICERS WERE NAMED "MARCTAL" AND i "DANIEL, " THE SBENTOR OF THE TWO, DANIEL, REMARKED THAT ELIZARDO SANCHEZ WAS A U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENT. IN DUE COURSE THIS 7 | INFORMATION WAS PASSED BY MARTINEZ-AMORES TO SANCHEZ IN THE PRESENCE OF VLADIMTRO ROCA. AROUND DECEMBER 1992, DURING AN } j INTERVIEW" BY MININT OF A CCC MEMBER, MARCIAL MADE A STATEMENT jPHAT INDICATED THAT HE KNEW THAT HIS INITIAL REMARKS TO MARTINEZ-AMORES ABOUT SANCHEZ HAD BEEN PASSED TO SANCHEZ. WHEN IT i WAS REPORTED TO SANCHEZ THAT MININT HAD MADE THIS STATEMENT, HE ATTRIBUTED IT TO TECHNICAL COVERAGE IN HIS HOME ASSOCIATED WITH AN | t LP OPPOSITE HIS HOME. THE CCC WAS NOT CONVINCED BY THIS EXPLANATION AND THEREAFTER KEPT ROCA AT A DISTANCE, AS THEY | ASSUMED THAT IT WAS ROCA WHO HAD PASSED THE INFORMATION TO THE \ MININT. (SOURCE COMMENT: ONLY ROCA, SANCHEZ AND MARTINEZ-AMORES \ \ KNEW THAT SANCHEZ HAD BEEN TOLD, AND BOTH SANCHEZ AND MARTINEZ-~AMORES WERE TRUSTED MEMBERS OF THE CCC.} | 4. CCC’S SUSPICIONS CONCERNING ROCA HAVE GROWN STRONGER IN LIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING INCIDENTS: | J AY CCC MEMBER _LEELIAA(DIAZ)) WAS DENTED A REQUEST FOR ) SECRET
13-00000. 5 q } { SECRET | maeno} 96-2899457 SENSING; INTEL a a we nen nee ne ee Le A VISA TO THE U.S. BY THE U.S. INTERESTS SECTION. REPORTED ———. GROUNDS” FOR-DENTAL-WERE— THAT— DIAZ HAD NOT SUBMITTED-SUPFECLENE EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY THE VISA. ROCA WAS HEARD TO TELL DIAZ THAT HIS REQUEST HAD BEEN UNDERMINED BY PELIX ((BONNE)) CARCASSES, THE Cece LEADER. BONNE DENIED THIS ACTION, SAYING THAT HE WOULD HAVE HAD NO INTEREST IN UNDERMINING DIAZ. B. IN EARLY 1993, JORGE GONZALEZ, A CLOSE FRIEND OF ROCA, INFORMED THE CCC LEADERSHIP THAT AN AUTHORESS, IDENTIFIED AS MARTANA ((BADELL)) (PHONETIC), WAS PREPARING A BIOGRAPHY OF CUBAN PRESIDENT FIDEL ((CASTRO)) AND WANTED TO MEET BONNE. THE REASON FOR SUCH A MEETING IN CONNECTION WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF CASTRO WAS NOT CLEAR, BUT THE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN GONZALEZ’ HOME, AND INCLUDED BADELL, BONNE, AND MARTINEZ-AMORES. THE CCC LEADERS NOTED THAT BADELL APPEARED TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE DURING THE COURSE OF THE MEETING. SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD HAD LUNCH WITH AN OFFICIAL OF THE SPANISH EMBASSY IN HAVANA, WHO WAS ASSISTING HER WITH THE BIOGRAPHY OF CASTRO BY PUTTING HER IN TOUCH WITH ONE CARLOS ALBERTO ((MONTANER)) IN MADRID, WHO WOULD EDIT THE BOOK. SHE DECLINED TO IDENTIFY THE SPANISH OFFICAL, BUT DESCRIBED HIM IN SUCH DETAIL THAT BOTH BONNE AND MARTINEZ-AMORES RECOGNIZED HIM AS JORGE (({DE ORUETA)), A LONG-TIME CONTACT OF THE CCC. WHEN THE CONVERSATION WAS RELAYED TO DE ORUETA BY THE CCC, HE RECALLED BADELL HAD BEEN INTRODUCED TO HIM BY VLADIMIRO ROCA’S WIFE. HE FURTHER RECALLED THE LUNCH AND MENTION OF THE BOOK, BUT DECLARED THE MONTANER INFORMATION TO BE SPURIOUS. THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS SUGGESTED TO CCC SECURITY PERSONNEL THAT THERE WAS COORDINATION AMONG INDIVIDUALS SUSPECTED OF BEING DIRECTED BY CUBAN SECURITY. C. IN 1933 A GROUP OF DISSIDENTS, INCLUDING BONNE, WAS UNVITED TO THE HOME OF PIOTR ((MIKISKA)) (PHONETIC), FIRST pECRETARY AT THE CZECH EMBASSY, TO ATTEND A VISIT FROM THE CZECH VICE CHANCELLOR. {SOURCE COMMENT: THIS KIND OF CONTACT WAS ANATHEMA TO THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT.) THE CZECH INVITATION TO BONNE WAS SENT THREE DAYS IN ADVANCE BY WORD OF MOUTH VIA ROCA. BY COINCIDENCE, ANOTHER CCC REPRESENTATIVE VISITING MIKISKA WITHIN A DAY OR TWO OF WHEN THE INVITATION WAS RELAYED TO ROCA WAS ASKED ABOUT THE INVITATION TO BONNE, AS BONNE HAD NOT RESPONDED TO THE OZECH EMBASSY. THE CCC REPRESENTATIVE INCLUDED THE QUERY REGARDING THE INVITATION IN HIS REPORT OF THE MEETING TO THE CCC, GIVING BONNE HIS FIRST NOTIFICATION THAT THERE HAD EVEN BEEN AN ENVITATION. ROCA FINALLY PASSED THE MESSAGE TO THE HOME OF GEORGINA DE LAS MERCEDES ((GONZALEZ)) CORBO, ONE OF BONNE’S CHIEF ASSISTANTS, TWO HOURS PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE FUNCTION. D. IN MID 1995, REINALDO ((ROQUE)) MALHERBE OF ccc REPORTED THAT VLADIMIRO ROCA’S WIFE WAS UNDERMINING ELIZARDO SANCHEZ BY PASSING AROUND STORIES THAT HE HAD BEEN WITHHOLDING ORGANIZATIONAL FUNDS, INTENDED FOR THE SOCIALIST CURRENT, FOR HIS PERSONAL USE. (SOURCE COMMENT: THIS RUMOR CAMPAIGN MAY HAVE *CONTRIBUTED TO SANCHEZ’ REPORTED RESIGNATION FROM THE<EXECUTIVE> COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST CURRENT.) ERE PORTING ON-RADIO“MART IF ROM-MEAMI-AROUND-MID_1995 ALLEGEDLY REFERRED TO VLADIMTRO ROCA AS AN AGENT OF CUBAN STATE SECRET
13-00000 MENG: 96-2899457 { SENSING? PAGE: 4 (ss URITY. ROCA HIMSELF WAS REPORTED TN SIDENT CIRCLES ro) HAVE STATED THAT HE WAS A LONG-TIME FRIEND ORF MAJOR” GENERAL FABTAN-—= (CESCALANTE)) FONT, WHO WAS REPORTEDLY THE CHIEP OF THE MININT DIRECTORATE OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (DCT) . (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT. ESCALANTE FONT NOW HEADS THR MINISTRY *KNOWN FOR HIS INQUIRIES INTO THE PRES ‘S HISTORY COMMISSION AND TS IDENT <JOHN>F. <KENNEDY > ASSASSINATION, THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION, AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS.) on SS tt re -3 GUILLERMO FERNANDEZ DONATE E_LO-GUS TAVO-T(ARCOS) J" BERGNES 0: HUMAN RIGHTS (COMITE CUBANO PRO DEREC SUSPECTED OF BEING A LEADERSHIP. HE JOINED THE ccc ON TH ECAUSE FERNANDEZ WAS A MEMBER OF TH MBERS OF THE CCC ARE 1 > a et m ry is) ca] “QMMENT : MANY ME INITIALLY BECAME Of ARRESTS IN WH POLITICAL PRISON BRL CO ICH HE WOULD BE PLAC ERS. BYy| THE AUTHORITIES FOR DISCIPLINARY A FROM PRISON HE SEEMED TO BE IN EXCELL oO aol is 6. EADERSHIP ADDITIONALLY, SEVERAL OTHE SUSPICIOUS OF F o TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF FERNANDEZ BECAUSE HE HAD A HISTORY ED IN PRISON HE WOULD EVENTUALLY HAVE A FIGHT WITH A GUARD OR COMMIT AN INFRACTION OF REGULATIONS AND BE REMOVED BERNA y WHO WAS | S IS A CIVIL ENGINEER THE-CUBAN-COMMITTEE-FOR HOS HUMANOS). HE WAS MININT SOURCE AND A PROVOCATEUR BY THE CCC ENDATION OF ARCOS CLASS. (SOURCE ) TRE ccc RECOMM!I PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONALS. — 7 iy WITH VARIOUS GROUPS OF BY EMERGED FED. CTION. EACH TIME H ENT HEALTH AND WELL R ANOMALIES HAVE CAUSED THE VDEZ: S) ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, A. THEM TO BELIEVE THAT INFORMATION PROV WAS) OFTEN GROSSLY INACCURATE. WHEN A ARGOS DISMISSED CCC COMMENTS AS BEING B. IT HAS FERNANDEZ WAS FRIENDLY WITH JORGE GON ROCA. FERNANDEZ WAS PRIVY TO THE ACT CWRRENT, THE GROUP TO WHICH ROCA BI ROCA. RETNALDO ROQUE, SOCIALIST CURRENT, NOTED THAT WHEN TH AUTHORITIES MUST HAVE BEEN APPRISED O FERNANDEZ OR ROCA (OR BOTH) COULD HAV INFORMATION TO THE AUTHORITIES. CCC TO COMMUNICATE ITEMS OF MUTUAL I SUBSEQUENT ELICITATION OF ARCOS BY OTHER BEEN NOTED BY THE CCC LEADERSHIP THAT ELONGED, BY HIS ASSOCIATION WITH A MEMBER OF THE CCC, MEET, IT WAS CHALLENGED BY CUBAN AUTHORITIES SO OFTEN THAT THE FERNANDEZ HAS BEEN ASKED BY TEREST TO ARCOS. MEMBERS OF THE CCC LED D BY FERNANDEZ TO ARCOS ISED OF THIS SITUATION, PLE MISUNDERSTANDINGS.. IDE PPR STD H VLADIMIRO ED BY SOCIALIST Z2ALEZ AND WIT IVITIES PLANNI] WHO WORKED WITH E GROUP WAS SCHEDULED TO POITS SCHEDULE. EITHER E BEEN PASSING SUCH on ON ONE OCCASION, TO THE SURPRISE OF THE cc HERNANDEZ, A KARATE PRACTITIONER, INVITED THE ENTIRE ccc MEMBERSHIP TO GO TO THE CIUDAD DEPORT EXERCISE FIELD TO WORK OUT. CCC SECU PHIS WOULD HAVE ASSEMBLED ALL OR MOST HAVANA IN AN OPEN AREA WHERE IT COULD PHOTOGRAPHED . THE INVITATION, COMING ®PPORTUNITY WITH NO PRECEDENT, FUELED = 3 IVA (SPORTS CITY) TO AN RITY PERSONNEL NOTED THAT OF THE CCC MEMBERSHIP IN BE OBSERVED AND AS IT DID AS A ONE-TIME SUSPICIONS WITHIN THE ccc ANP THE INVITATION WAS DECLINED. A SERIES OF EVENTS INVOLVI NG RAFAEL ALCIDES, A NOTED SE CRET
13-00000 - »* a ry SECRET INTEL) vu AN POET AND FIRST HUSBAND oF TERESA (CEERNANDEZ)_)_.MARDONES {iA MEMBER-OF-THE CCC) , WAS SIGNIFICANT TO THE CCC BECAUSE IT CALLED INTO QUESTION WHERE ALCIDES’ LOYALTIES LAY. ALCIDES AND PERNANDEZ HAD ONE CHILD, A SON, TOGETHER BEFORE THEY WERE DIVORCED AROUND LATE 1993. FERNANDEZ HAD REMARRIED AND WAS LIVING WITH RONALDO { (ROQUE) ) (COUSIN OF REINALDO ROQUE), AND ALCIDES WAS SPENDING CONSIDERABLE TIME AT THE ROQUE RESIDENCE, PRESUMABLY TO BE WITH HIS SON. THE CCC BECAME CONCERNED WITH THE SECURITY OF THE SITUATION AS FERNANDEZ WAS PRIVY TO ccc INFORMATION AND WAS ASSESSED AS BEING EMOTIONAL AND TENDING TO CONFIDE TOO MUCH. MARTINEZ -AMORES WAS DISPATCHED BY THE ccc To FEEL OUT ALCIDES, AND EPORTED THAT HE SPOKE COHERENTLY AND LOGICALLY AGAINST THE URRENT REGIME. MARTINEZ-AMORES APPEARED TO BE REASSURED. SUBSEQUENTLY HOWEVER, IN CONVERSATION WITH ALCIDES, REINALDO ROQUE LEARNED THAT ALCIDES WAS PART OF A DELEGATION OF THE CUBAN NATIONAL UNION OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS (UNION NACIONAL DE ESCRITORES Y ARTISTAS DE CUBA - UNEAC) THAT VISITED MADRID SOMETIME AROUND 1994. WHILE THERE, ALCIDES SAID THAT HR WAS INVITED WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER UNEAC DELEGATES TO LUNCH WITH CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER. (SOURCE COMMENT: THRE LUNCHEON WITH MONTANER MUST CERTAINLY HAVE RECEIVED CUBAN GOVERNMENT APPROVAL, AND THE GROUP MUST HAVE INCLUDED CUBAN SECURITY PERSONNEL. } ALCIDES TOLD ROQUE THAT ON HIS RETURN TO CUBA, HE ATTENDED THE FUNERAL FOR A SISTER (NFI) OF FIDEL CASTRO AND DELIVERED THE IFUNERAL ORATION. FOLLOWING THE FUNERAL, HE WAS OBSERVED TO BE EMBRACED BY MINISTER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES GENERAL SENSIND: Cy RAUL ((CASTRO)) RUZ. poc: Ecc,[ | secure x-43770, stu t11 Loo. (LATE OCTOBER 1995) prssem: FIELD: SENT TO; USCINCSO, USCINCACOM, AIC, USCINCTRANS, USCINCSOC, JSOC. WARNING: REPORT CLASS S EC R E T--WARNING NOTICE -~--INTELLIGENCE SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLVED--NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. DBCL: Xl CL REASON 1.5(C) DRV FROM HUM-4 BY RECORDED REPORTING OFFICER. ALL PORTIONS CARRY CLASSIFICATION AND CONTROLS OF OVERALL DOCUMENT . END OF MESSAGE SECRET. > RELNO: E320080 ———~ Se ORIG: TIDIRPS — END OF MESSAGE SECRET SECRET