INFORMATION REPORT:JOSE CASSA LAGRONO
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/01/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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COUNTRY Cuba/Dominican Republic

REPORT NO.

SUBJECT Jose CASSA Lagrono

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FIELD REPORT NO.

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE.. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

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

Information from the records of this Agency.

supplemental

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.

T/рV

Although source recognized a photograph of Jose CASSA

Lagrono, he could not recall any

pertinent data concerning

him.

When this Agency's representative suggested to source

that CASSA is a Dominican, source said he knew CASSA as a

Cuban, rather than a Dominican, although the latter is not

excluded.

Source added, however, that 1f CASSA is a

Dominican he

August 1963.1"ould not have arrived in Cuba until after

Headquarters Comment:

1. According to avallable information Jose CASSA Lagrono

born on 22 June 1916 in Santo Domingo and is

believed to be a Dominican citizen.

reported to be a member of the pro-Castro Agrupacion

Politica Catorce de Junio (APCJ - 14th of June Political

According to a usually reliable source CASSA

Domingo on 20 July 1963 for Panama City er

route to Mexico City to go to Habana to attend the 26tl

of July celebrations in 1963.

TDCS-3/554,908 reported

that an official travel manifest revealed

that CASSA

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mas one of 20 Dominicans who left Mexico City, by air, for Habana

on 26

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1963.

On 22 August 1963, it was reported that CASSA

arrived ia Rio de Janeiro, by air, on a chartered Cubana Airllhes

plane frin Fabana.

(See TDCS-3/557,280).

On 4 October 1963, he

*as arrested by the Dominican Police and was to be deported fron

the Domi=ican Republic.

(see TDCS-3/561,119).

On 10 October 1963

El Carise daily newspaper, reported that CASSA vas deported on

9 October 1963 to Puerto Rico where he was detained by United

states irzigration authorities, but that he returned to santo

Domingo the same day. (see TDCS-3/561,495).

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