POSSIBLE IDENTITY OF MEXICAN KGB AGENT, (FNU) MORA.
Originator: CIA
To: CHIEF, SB DIVISION
Document date: 1969-06-06 00:00:00
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POSSIBLE IDENTITY OF MEXICAN KGB AGENT, (ENU) MORA.

06/06/1969

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MORA

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Chiel, SB Division

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REDTUY AEKICK

Possible Identity oi Mexica KGB Agent. -(104) - MURA

ACTION REQUIRED. REFERINCES

Reterence: HMMW-1/142, 11 March 1969

1.

Reterence asked tor any recent traces on Juan MIGUEL de

BORA

Vaquerizo (201-239192), and whether he might be & personal

acquaintance of the

tormer

Mexican President,

AdOlIO LOPEZ MATEOS,

In an effort to determine whether he might be the KGB agent, (inu)

MORA, descrived by AEDUNOR.

MORA

2.

A carerul review of the Station tile on Juan MIGUEL de

Vaquerizo (please note that it has been determined that Suuject

USES

"MIGUEL" as his patronym) has tailed to reveal any close connec-

tiong with Mexican government personalities, or his appointment to

Mexican government delegations

(per Paragraph 3 of Reterence).

While

Juan MIGUEL de MORA has been consistently pro-leit, and anti-Mexican

Government, and has had contact with Soviet Embassy officials in

Mexico Clty, there has been no indication that he has any good

high-level government connections (other than what might be routine

press access).

There was one meeting (reported in HMMA-13323,

17 July 1959)

among HAGUEL de MORA, Pavel YATSKOV (201-120123), then

stationed with the Soviet Eubassy in mexico.

and a TDY Soviet

(Mikhail Vesilyevich KREMNEV), In June 1y5y which could be

considered to have had some puzzling clandestine overtones; \there

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nothing else, however, to contirm that Juan MIGUEL de MORA is the

KGB agent

the AEDUNOR report.

As for Juan MIGUEL de MORA's

recent activities, reference is made to OFPA-8899%, 15 January 1969;

HMMA-3042%, 11 February 1869; and OFPA-89015, 15 April 1969, which

reveal that MIGUEL de MORA 1s currently residing in Paris and employed

by French radio/TV (ORTF) .

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HOS HILE NUMBER

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HMMA - 37296

"3.

" On the other hand, a detailed review of the thick Station

file on Dolores DE LÁ MORA Cepeda (201-82/19%) revealed several

traces which seen to tit the description oi Paragraph 3 of Reterence,

despite the assumption that the KGB agent reterred to was a male.

The following points,

which in the Station's opinion make Dolores

DE LA MORA a tar more crodible candidate no the KGB agent, are

offered for Headquarters consideration:

DOlOres DE LA MORA Cepeda is (or was

at the time)

director and owner of 'Nueva Provincia,

" a newspaper in Lagos

de Morenos, Jalisco, single and described as the youngest

director o1

a newspapor (UGFA-12(68, ü December 1963). She

was also described as a tormer candidate for deputy irom the

Third District o1 Jalisco (HMM-5853,

24 August 1961).

More

recently she has been writing articles for "El Dia,"

"Siempre, "

(See MEXICO CITY 1175,

In January 1905, DE LA MORA married Luis

SANCHEZ ARREOLA, Intormation Chiet of "El Dia," but per

LISANPAN,

14 March 1968, she was divorcing her husband.

D. < Dolores DE LA

MORA" has had close contacts with Cuban

Embassy officials and

has made several trips to Cuba (she lias

also bragged about her friendship with Fidel CASTRO--see below)

since 19ul.

Althougn she is known to be friendly with the

Cuban Ambassador (previous and present), it should be noted that.

ber most trequent contacts in the past,

per LIENVOY,

SINOBAS (201-339249) Reyna do

CEPEDA (201-1/0133), and

Januel'VEGA Perez (see MEXi 5052, 17 June 1963), all known

intelligence odricers

Simlarly,

, DE LA MORA has had continuing overt (per

LIENVOY) contact with Czech Embassy Officials, again identilied

intelligence

oilicials.

The first recorded contact was with

Jirl_ 8VESTKA

(201-285441), Czech

_Consul, in August 1961; she

apparently took up with SVESTKA's successor,

Luvonir BLAZIK

(202-20 0043), and with SVESTKA's return (replacing AS aLO

again resumed her riendship with him.

in contact with Czeslaw LIMONT (201-155910)

tormer Second

secretary an the Polish Embassy and known UB officer.

However,

It is curious to note that through all the years of overt

regular contact with such Cuvan and Bloc ofticials, there has

been a noticeable

absence o1 similar regular overt

contacte

mith Soviet orlicialo.

d. Several reports in December 1960-February 1961. InvOLve

Dolores. DE LA MORA /Üith Manuel MARCUE Pardinas, leftist

publisher, and hig wife, and Luis MONTER Valenzuela,

According

to the reports, Dolorey used her intluence in obtaining printing

paper from the

Mexican government-controlled agency (under the

guise o1 buying

it for her own Jalisco publication) 10r

MARCUE Pardinag' lettiet publication,

MONTER Valenzuela is

the brother 01

(201-823/1y] who hag

been or SB interest.) \

DOlOreS DE LA MURA, despite her known lettist contacte,

apparently has had some good high-level Mexican government

Per LIENVOY reports, she has been reterred to aB

a relative ("pariente") o1 Francisco GALINDO Ochoa, prominent

PRY official, who, until February 1968 when he was

allegedly

lorced to resign by President DIAZ ORDAZ, was the Presidential

Press and Public Relations Uilicer. Also according to LINVOY,

Sublect has been extremely friendly with Julio SCHERER Garcia,

currently Director General of "Excelsior," one of Mexico City's

largest daily newspapers.

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CLASBIPICATIONES

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HMMA- 31296

& Memorandum for the Record dated 10 Septenber 1962

"by Willard C. CURTIS contained the toilowing intormation on

DOlOreS DE LA MORA as reported by LIENVOY-2:

DE LA MORA

"trom Guadalajara,

tried to get a job in the Presidencia,

but

President LOPEZ MATEOS, despite her 'high recommendations'

personally decided agailist having her work there.

She then

tried to get a job in Sicial Sacurity with COQUET.

He also

turned her down.

She in now 'violently antt-Government'."

LITALUS-2 (a LITEMPO agent who was assigned to keep

DE LA MORA undel: survetllance at the tine) reported

1962 that Dolores DE lA MORA was a close iriend

Of COLLAPATA Vell and elso that she was the mistress of

the Mexican Senator, Manuel MORENO SANCHEZ:

was used us an accommodation addresg

by KGB officer Stanislav SYCHEV (203-326963] while on TDY in

quito, Ecuador (QuITO 1136, 28 May 1968].)

h:

LITAMILY reported on 3 January 1963 (sent Headquarters

a8

attachment to HMMA-20546, 22 January 1963) that Dolores

DE LA MORA told him that President LOPEZ MATEOS

was "always

agking her to tell him more about Fidel CASTRO." She also said

she was leaving Mexico (for Cuba--LITAMIL-9 was at the airport

to see her oit) without her parents knowing it as they were

not in tavor of her iriendship with CASTRO.

LITANILY alB0

reported on 21 January.

1963 that Subject bad told him she was

to be given a diplomatic post in the next regime.

(Ot course,

some of DE LA MORA's statements may represent braggadocio on

her part for LITÄMIL-9's beneilt but undoubtedly,

there was

some truth to her claims of triendship with CASTRO and

acquaintance at least with tormer President LOPEZ MATEOS.)

LITAMILY also subsequently reported on 24 February 1963

that ne had "bumped into" DE LA MORA on 23 February 1963 and

(InU) DE LA MORA, an architect

me to conte came "cattana, "' wanted to talk to

FLITAMILY about a Cuban/Mexican cultural exchange. A check, °1

¡Station tiles reveals that Subject's uncle is Enrique

'#DE LA MORA Y PALOMAR and his wito-Is Tatiana ASKINAZY #DE LA

MORA',

bori, August 1018 in Russia.

They reside at Cerrada

de la Cerca 62,

San Angel,

Mexico City.

Tatiana has in the

paat worked at the Ibero-American University and has been noted

per LIENVOY for her contacts with Syatoslav KUZNETSOV (201-

084222).

(See the SPR on KUZNETSOV, HMMA-32689, 3 August 196%.)

A Station Memorandum for the Record on Tatiana Askinazy DE LA

her mother, Anna

had all been known

socially to Jonathan L. WEENING.

Although the DE LA MORA's

contacte with

time rated Tatiana and her husband

intellectual.

to LIENVOY on 15 November 196%, Dolores

LA MORA told Jiri SVESTKA, Czech Consul, that she was about

to leave on a trip to Caracas, Venezuela, as the "minister

had named her his representativo"! there.

Other LIENVOY reports

01 Noveaber 196% indicate that DE LA MORA was probably referring

to the Mexican Minister of Education, Agustin YANEZ, and on

14 Docember 1967, per LIENVOY, DE LA MORA told the Cuban

Ambasuador in Mexico that she

had just returned tron a trip to

South America where she "represented the Minister."

Carlo: ZAPATA vela

(avi-105,612)

Dea me dice friend fled:

Pr LA Main 125.

3 :!"?, 8:d.:

• ACRINERA

tor/Willard C.

201-239192

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