Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
Document date: 11/10/71
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

4/29/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90082-10020

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 97-3728-17

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

DATE: 11/10/1971

PAGES:

15

SUBJECTS :

ANTONIO CUESTA VALLE

ANTONIO VALLE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/14/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INDEX

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DATE: 11-14-2017

RELATIVE WHO HAS BUREAU MAIN FILE

SECRET

The relationship and biographical data of Antonio Cuesta Valle,

who was imprisoned in Cuba for his Cuban revolutionary activities, were

set forth in the serials of the main file on his relative, as follows:

NAME

RELATIONSHIP

REFERENCE

SEARCH SLIP

PAGE NUMBER

Maria De Lourdes

Blanco Diez De

Cuesta

Wife

(5)

05-161504-2

•2-2

41)

5-11,14

16

-60.1-3,5

-38

-42

+34)

14,34

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GLOSSARY

CL..

....A violently anti-Castro group

DIER..

.. An Army investigative agency which

confined itself to investigations within

Cuba and had no agents outside of cuba..

MRr................................An anti-Castro organization which

operated

inside Cuba

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(continued)

REFERENCE

2-1622-318 ep.6

-321 ep. 2

-329 ep. 2

105-95677-611 p.1

- 617 p.3

-618 ep. 2

-621 ep. 1

-622 p.2

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

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128

On 5/20/68 MM [228S advised that Lilla Emilia Cuesta Perez

was the half-sister of Antonio Cuesta Valle, a hero of the anti-Castro

forces currently in jail in Havana, Cuba.

She was the daughter of Valle's

father, had been adopted by the family of Lilia Perez Arias, her step-

mother, and lived with the Arias family at Calle 5a #336, Casino de

Deportivo, Havana. Ls a result of several visits to the prison hospital

to see Valle, she met Raul Alfonso Roldan,

a Department of State Security

(DSE) officer, who invited her to visit him at DSE headquarters. During

February 1968, Emilia visited DSE headquarters on severäl occasions for

interviews with Roldan and others who questioned her at length concerning

the sympathies and activities of her family and Valle.

She cooperated

with DSE authorities and apparently furnished them whatever information

she had ef

(u)

65:

-63987-210-1083 ep. 1, 2187(4)

The following references pertain to the Cuban counterrevolutionary

and anti-Castro activities of Antonio Cuesta Valle from January 1959

to 5/29/66 in Miami, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

Cuesta, who was an early supporter of Fidel Castro, belonged to several

middle-of-the-road exile organizations, headed the

tenant of the Cuban Department of Logistics of the National Revolutionary

Police,

Havana, a former investigative branch of the Cuban Government,

belonged to the MRR and was second in command of DIER. He attended meetings

and affairs,

was in contact and associated with numerous individuals.

Cuesta anticipated, led and/or participated in military operations

against

the Cuban Government including an attack on a Russian vessel at Caibarien

and a raid on the residence of President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado in

Havana City.

He accepted donations and worked toward unifying anti-

Cuban revolutionary organizations. Cuest was jailed in Cuba

as an after-

math of the suicide of the Minister of Public Works and as of 3/16/59 he

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REFERENCE

SECRET

109-584-3976 p.11,12

-4069 p. 6,7,19,20,25,26

-4075 ep. 1

-4104 p.1

-4114 p.14

-4179 p. 12

-4269

ep. 1,2

-4272 p.5,6

-4324

p.10-12

-4359 p.1-3

-4409 p.1,3-6

-4491 ep. 1,3

-4522 p.9

--4561

ep.2

-4573 p.8

-4605 p.7

-4600 ep.4

=A "Saturday Evening Post" 6/8/63

-A King Features Syndicate, Inc. 5/22/64

109-590-1p. 3; ep. 1,3,5,7,8 (interviewed 3/6/59)

-8 p. 1, 3,8,10, 12, 13, 21,23,27-30

(interviewed 3/0/59; jailed, Cuba)

134-15592-4 p.2

[134-21466-X p.2,3 (Interviewed 9/23/65)

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

5, 30 420

(XX)

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REFERENCES NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SUMMARY

The following references on Antonio Valle, One Toto and One

San Martin maintained in the Special File Room in the Records Branch,

Files and Communications Division,

whether they are identicäl with the subject of this

were not reviewed mary! Is not inown

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REFERENCE

64-330-240-53-25

65-41271-199

65-41773-234

105-12189-4595

-4794

SECRET

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

1522

The following reference on Antonio Cuesta Valle contains infor-

mation of an administrative nature and has not been included.

SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER

REFERENCE

105-97459-210-214 p.22

See the search slip filed behind file for other references

on this subject which contain the same information (SI) that is set

out in the main file.

Although the information is

same it may have

been received from different

sources.

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