INFORMATION REPORT- RENE DEPESTRE, HAITIAN COMMUNIST LEADER.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/17/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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•Bune DEPESTRE, Haltlan

Sommunist Leader

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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 serics containing personality

information provided

by the source and includes supplemental

Information from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of

the

individuals mentloned in the personality reports without

first checking with this Agency.

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Source identified the name Rene DEPESTRE, a Haitian,

from an official)travel manifest.

He advised that DEPESTRE

and his

wife, Edith, are living in Habana, where DEPESTRE 1s,

1n effect, a salaried employee of Radio Habana, broadcasting

a program in Creole to the Haitian populace.

Source was

asked if he inew 1f DEPESTRE had a group of men for an

invasion of Haiti; source advised that DEPESTRE had no

Invasion group, but believed that DEPESTRE was scheduled to

accompany one Jean Norbert MONTERO to Oriente Province in

January or February 1964 to scout the province for guerrilla

trainee recruits, but source does not know if DEPESTRE

actually went.

Then querted regarding DEPESTRE's contacts in Moscow,

replied that he believed DEPESTRE had been in Moscow

and, therefore, would presumably havé contacts there; but

source could not name any specific persons.

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