CABLE RE: EMIGDIO AUGUSTIN BARRES-FOANJUL AND ANTONIO CAARLOS VECIANA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: DEA HQS
Document date: 07/26/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT: - EMIGDIO AUGUSTIL BARRES-ELAUL AND ANTONIO CARLOS VECIANA

REFERENCE: DEA 4768

Ja EMIGDIO AUGUSTIN BARRES-EGANÜUL REGISTERED WITH THE INTER-

AGENCY SOURCE REGISTER CISRI BY DEPT ARMY NOVEMBER 1962 AND THEN

DROPPED EMO DATE GIVENZ. ALSO KNOUN AS GUS BARRES. DPOB: 5 AUGUST

1935, CIENFUEGOS, LAS VILLAS, CUBA. SON OF HORTENSIO BARRES MECIA

AND ANGELINA FANJUL SOTO, PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: S'E": 160 LBS.

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BROUN EYES AND HAIR, COMPLEXION (DOI.

19617. VIFE CARMEN ROSALBA

FREIRIA: DPOB:

20 JANUARY 1935, CIENFUEGOS, CUBAi MARRIED 9 DECEMBER

BARRES

1956 CDOI 19697. EDUCATED AT COLUMBIA MILITARY ACADEMY, COLUMBIA,

TENNESSEE 1949-1951i UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA 1952-57 UITH A DEGREE IN

BUSINESS SCIENCES AND LAU. 1956-61 ACCOUNTANT-OFFICE MANAGER IN CUBA

FOR TECON CORPORATION Of DALLAS, TEXAS, MAY-SEPTEMBER 1960 EMPLOYED.

AS SUB-SECRETARY FOR COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT, HAVANA.

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1959: EMPLOYED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF RECUPERATION

AND PROPERTIES AS DISTRICT CHIEF FOR THE SOUTHERN AREA OF LAS VILLAS

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PROVINCE, CUBA. FEBRUARY-JUNE 1759 EM. LOYED AS INTERNAL REVENUE

AGENT FOR THE CITY OF CIENFUEGOS, CUBA. BARRE: STATES THAT HE

WAS A MEMBER OF THE CIVIL BRANCH OF THE ZUTH OF JULY MOKEMENT IN

CIENFUEGOS AND HAVANA FROM 1956 TO SEPTEMBER I'LO: HOWEVER, HE DENIED

EVER HAVING BEEN A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY, BARRES ENTERED THE

UNITED STATES & JANUARY 1961 REQUESTING POLITICAL ASYLUM. IN JUNE

1961 BARRES WAS EMPLOYED BY THE FARNSWORTH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.

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HATO REY, PUERTO RICE AS AN ACCOUNTANT. THERE ARE TUO REFERENCES

REGARDING BARRES POSSIBLE CONNECTION WITH THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT SPYDING.

ON CUBANS WHEN ME WAS IN CIENFUEGOS AND WHEN HE LEFT CUBA FOR THE U.S.

AND PUERTO RICO. THIS INFORMATION HAS NEVER BEEN CONFIRMED. HOWEVER.

BARRES HAS STATED THAT HE REPORTED ON THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT TO THE

AMERICAN EMBASSY IN HAVANA BUT AGAIN THIS INFORMATION CANNOT BE

CONFIRMED.

Z. ARTONIO CARLOS VECIANA BLANCH: DPOB: L8 OCTOBER 3928.

HAVANA, CUBA. ALSO KNOUN AS ANTONIO VECIANA SON OF ANTONIO VECIANA

AND ANA BLANCH. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION S'EULL", BROWN HAIR AND EYES.

DOGDDEDUCATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.

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WIFE: SIRA MUINO RODRIGUEZ, DOB: 4 ICT 1935. HAVANA: MARRIED

E5 MAY 1953. CHILDREN: ANTONIO, ANA, VICTORI: AND CARLOS. VECIANA

IS A CERTIFIED PUBLIE ACCOURTANT PRESE: TRY WOR ING POR DISTRIQUIDORA

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SÃ" CARACAS, VENEZUELA FEO 19732. FORMER EMPLOYMENT BITH

OFFICE OF CAPITAL DEVELOPMENTO U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOP-.

MENT CAIDS, LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, LIGA TO JUNE 30, 1772. VECIANA

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FOUNDER OF ALPHA 66(1762-1,965) AND FORMER MEMBER OF THE PEOPLE'S

REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT: AN ANTI-CASTRO GROUP IN CUBA: 1960-6L.

VECIANA ARRIVED MIAMI DECEMBER 1961 BY SMALL BOAT. VECIANA UAS A :

BANKER IN CUBA 1956-57 WHO REPORTEDLY EMIAMI NEUS. ITEM NOV bIS

ATTEMPTED TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO IN OCTOBER 1960. EMPLOYED.

AS CPA AND MANAGER OF DANCO FINANCIERO, HAVANA, CUBA LOAN COMPANY

QUED BY JULIO LOBO FOR FOUR YEARS 1957-6L. VECIANA WAS OF INTEREST.

TO THIS AGENCY IN 1962 BECAUSE OF HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE REVOLUTION-

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VECIANA TO THE U.S. ARMY MOVEMBER 1962 AND SHOUS TERMINATION WITHOUT

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