(404-10712-10201 . ‘ , : * A Ss SS 1 March 1963 LF CRS oO ek : & ES MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: Harold R. NOEMAYE (P) To : This is a voluntary statement offered to the Career Panel as supplementary information for review and consideration of an operational assignment for the undersigned. It contains Subject's resume of service and experience, as well as his evaluation of qualifications and capabilities. It is also : submitted to provide the Panel with current thinking and ‘i attitude of the subject, as related to this agent career asSignment on one hand, and / os On the other, which, whether/ _ Ce ~ } has affected his two previous tours of duty. "Concerning service and experience: I have spent all my adult life in government service (Enlisted in the Field Artillery 29 August 1940). Twenty years of this service has been in the intelligence field, beginning with Combat Intel- ligence and covering Economic and Political Intelligence while in the Air Force. KUBARK service began in June, 1949, in Foreign Intelligence with some Psychological Warfare and ultimately, Paramilitary. About gsgventeen years of this service has been in Latin America - (Panama (Costa Rica, )(é-/3 “*Guatenala) @exio) and Cuba - with abdut seven years in three ifferent (universities, ‘ 2 "IT believe that my qualifications and capabilities have been utilized (as well as neglected) in a more unique manner than in the case of the average career agent, because in addition to speaking and living like a Latin American, I can think like one and consequently create or inspire confidence, identifying with their biases, ranging from sincere criticism to active opposition to the United States. This, naturally, led to my specialization in the field of Communist Penetration operations in International Communism branch, where I think my record will speak for itself.
14-00000 rr o "It appears that Communist Penetration operations were well assigned and between 1949 and 1969, I gained experience in recruitment and management of Latin American Communist agents. During this period, I also received two courses in Clandestine Tradecraft given by the Headquarters Covert Training Branch. It was my understanding that my work was above average and indicated a flair for clandestine operations. Later, some of my actual case histories of penetration operations were sterilized and reproduced as training aides in the Covert Training Branch. During this service, I also gained experience in postal intercept and surveillance, audio surveillance, photography, and the operation of equipment used in these activities. "After a four-year tour in Cuba, I volunteered to under- take an FI mission with CASTRO's forces then in the Sierra Maestra (April 58). The results of this mission were hailed as satisfactory and well recorded and although I was never really satisfied with Agency support and follow-up on this mission, it. is now buried under the Cuban situation which is a dead lien behing much pawed over these days. [6-3 "While in(Mexico)on an FI assignment, I was asked to return to the Sierra Maestra in Cuba in December 1958. I accepted and arrived in Havana in time for 1 January 1959 ouster of BATISTA and the first period of chaos. After covering the scene as an observer for about three weeks I returned to my assignment in (Mexico City) , (o3 "In retrospect, 1959 was my year of decision which began with violence and ended in violence. Decision, because I should have heeded Havana Station and requested immediate transfer there, disregarding my sophomorie loyalty to the (3 Qlexico Station )assignment. Instead, I returned to what I ey ‘add to this / shall always feel was a malassignment. (Having been trained and briefed for CP Penetration, I ended up in reports writing and translations, being absolutely forbidden to take part in penetrations operations that would have jeopardized the Communist agents I was handling.) Whether cause or affect, . ° and by early 1960 I was returning the ZI. Although J requested this return, undoubtedly the(tiexico Station)had already made this decision. igf-3 mo