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

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COUNTRY Cuba/Dominican Republie

REPORT NO.

+561-316/02401-68

SUBJECT JOSe CASSA LAgrONO

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION, SOUACE GRADINOS ARE DEPIMITIVE.

APPRAISAL OF CONI

SOURCEI

forner. Cuban is officer who served with the Cuban.

Intelligence Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Conments

The following report is one of a series containing personality

information provided

by the source

and includes supplemental

intormation from the records of this Agency.

It 1s requested that the addressees take no action

on any of

the individuals mentioned in

the personality reports without

first checking with this Agency.

Although source recognized a photograph of Jose CASSA

Lagrono, he could not recall any pertinent data concerning

When this Agency's representative suggested to source

that CASSA 1s & 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

would not have arrived in Cuba until after

August 1963.1

Ileadquarters Comment:

1.

According to available information Jose CASSA LagrOnO

on 22 June 1916 in Santo Domingo and 1s.

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

Group).

According to a usually

reliable source CASSA

left Santo Domingo on 20 July 1963 for Panama City

en

route to Mexico City to go to Habana to attend the

26th

of July celebrations in 1963.

TDCS-3/554,908 reported

that an official travel manifest revealed that CASSA

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

on 26 Julj

On 22 August 1963, 18 was reported that CASSA

the Dominican Republic.

(see .TDCS-3/561,119). On.10 October 1983

El Caribe,

dally newspaper, reported that CASSA was deported on

9 October 1963 to Puerto Rico where ho was detaired by Undted

States Immigration authorities, but that he returned to Santo

Domingo the same day. (see TDCS-3/561,195).

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