CABLE RE ITEMS IN 'EL PAIS'
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 08/04/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RETURN TO CIA

TO: IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR INFO PRIORITY MEXICO CIT Background Use Only

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DIRECTOR 268527

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4 AUGUST EDITION OF MADRID DAILY "EL PAIS" CARRIED 04

A HALF COLUMN ARTICLE CONCERNING ALBERTO CESAR AUGUSTO

RODRIGUEZ GALLEGO'S CIA AFFILIATION. HEADLINE READS8

"SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE BERLITZ ACADEMY IN MADRID - A CUBAN

EXILE DENIES HIS ASSOCIATION WITH CIA," THE BYLINE IS EFE.

04 (SAME ARTICLE ALSO CARRIED BY MADRIO DAILY "YA").

ARTICLE

IDENTIFIES

LRODRIGUEZJ IN FULL NAME, BY NATIONALITY, AND THROUGH HIS

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT AT BERLITZ.

ARTICLE STATES

HE CATEGORICALLY DENIES ANY ASSOCIATION WITH CIA, JOKINGLY

BRUSHING OFF THE ACCUSATION AS ABSURD. ARTICLE GOES ON TO

STATE THAT RODRIGUEZ LIVED IN MEXICO FROM 1960-1972 AS A

COLOMBIAN NATIONAL, BUT IN ACTUALITY WAS BORN IN CUBA ON

6 NOVEMBER 1922.

CITING THE "YOUTH ACCUSES IMPERIALISM"OL

DOCUMENT, THE EFE ARTICLE STATES THAT IN 1961 [RODRIGUEZ!

RESIDED IN A BUILDING LOCATED IN FRONT OF THE CUBAN MISSION •

IN MEXICO CITY, WHERE HE CONDUCTED AN EXPIONAGE MISSION FOR

THE CIA.

_ARTICLE ENDS WITH STRONG DENIAL BY (RODRIGUEZ']."Y

960-1972.

WORLD WORKS FOR THE CIA."

AMBASSADOR BRIEFED PER PARA Z, REF A ON 4 AUGUST.

IF DIRECTOR OF BERLITZ RETURNS TO MISSION, CONSULAR OFFICER

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STATION TO CONTACT RODRIGUEZ PER PARA 4 REF A.

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