ESP-CUBA-PANAMA; RA-CUBA-PANAMA
Originator: CIA
From: CIA
To: FBI
Document date: 04/08/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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ATTENTION: INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

SECRET/WARNING NOTICE - SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SDURCES AND

HODS

INVOLVED/NO FOREIGN DISSEM.

CIR-316! 01514-78

SUBJECT: OTOMCAT: ESP-CUBA-PANAMA; RA-CUBA-PANAMA

REFS: A.. FBI TELETYPE DATED 052028Z APRIL 1978, CAPTIONED AS

CIR-316/00260-75, DATED i8 FEBRUARY 1975, CAPTIONED

"SALVADOR ALDERESUIA, ALSO KNOWN AS "EL GALLEGO" INTERNAL SECRUITY

CUBA.-': WITH REGARD TO CLARIFICATION OF SALVADOR ALDEREGUIA'S.

ASSOCIATION WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND PARTICULARLY WITH CIA.

REFERENCE: B ADVISED. THAT HE WAS OF INTEREST TO THIS AGENCY IN 1960

WHEN WE WERE INDIRECTLY INVOLVED IN ASSISTING IN HIS EXFILTRATION

FROM CUBA... HOWEVER, HE TOOK ASYLUM IN THE URUGUAYAN EMBASSY IN

HAVANA ON 3 JULY 1960 AND DEPARTED THE SAME: DAY FOR CURACAO.

HIS ARRIVAL: IN MIAMI IN FEBRUARY 1961, THIS AGENCY WAS BRIEFLY IN

CONTACT WITH HIM BUT OUR INTEREST WAS DROPPED PARTLY BECAUSE HIS

UNCLE, ONE OF THE LEADING FOUNDERS OF THE CUBAN COMMUNIST PARTY, WAS

THEN CUBAN AMBASSADOR TO YUGOSLAVIA AND ALDEREGUIA'S TRUE LOYALTIES

WERE UNKNOWN..

THIS AGENCY HAS HAD NO: INTEREST. IN OR CONTACT WITH

ALDEREGUIA SINCE THAT TIME.

VLADIMIR RODRIGUEZ LAHERA DOB 6 FEBRUARY 1937;

HAYANA, CUBA WAS A.FORMER DGI STAFF OFFICER WHO DEFECTED ON 21

APRIL 1964 IN HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA. HE WAS DEBRIEFED AND HANDLED

THROUGH NORMAL DEFECTOR CHANNELS AND WAS. THE SOURCE OF NUMEROUS

SCI'S CONCERNING THE DGI IN 1964 AND 65.

HE: WAS USED OPERATIONALLY.

IN RECRUITMENT ATTEMPTS AGAINST DGI OFFICERS

DURING 1964-1967.

HE WAS TERMINATED IN

JULY 1967, AND WAS CONSIDERED, BUT NEVER USED. FOR ANOTHER

RECRUITMENT ATTEMPT IN 1971. SINCE 1971 RODRIGUEZ HAS NOT BEEN

INVOLVED IN ANY CIA OPERATION IN MIAMI OR ELSEWHERE.

JOSEPH NORRIS IS THE ALIAS. OF A

CIA REPRESENTATIVE WHO PERIODICALLY DEBRIEFS RODRIGUEZ ON PERSONALITIE

AND METHODS OF THE DGI. THERE IS NO OTHER CIA INVOLVEMENT

RODRIGUEZ.

THIS AGENCY WILL QUERY ITS REPRESENTATIVE IN MIAMI TO

316/01514-78

DETERMINE IF: HE HAS ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THIS

MATTER.

ALOONO GORY SECRET

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