INFORMATION REPORT- NORBERTO HERNANDEZ CURBELO.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/12/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUMECTiorberto HERNANDEZ Curbelo

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE APPEAISAL: OP CONTENT, ES TENTATIVE

SOURCE. A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Conments

The following report. is one of a series containing personality

infornation provided by the source and includes supplemental

Information from the records of this Agency.

Checas a the Agny:

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

individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first

Norberto

HERNANDEZ Curbelo, pseudonyms "Bucarell" and

"Noel,"'is the officer in charge of

the Guatemalan Desx in, the

Departamento de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation

Department - LN) in the Direccion General de Inteligencia (General

Directorate of Intelligence - DGI).

introduced by Ramon VAZQUEZ Montenegro.

Source first met HERNANDEZ in 1959 when they sere

In B1d-1959, HERVANDEL

started working for the Cuban G-2 under the command of VAZQUEZ

and Eduardo DELGADO..

When DELGADO was replaced as Chies of the.

Check Up and Vigilance Bureau in 1960, HERNLIDEZ was also

discharged fron the G-2.

In late 1960 or early 1961, HERNANDEZ started working for

the Cuban Electric Company as a simple laborer for street work aloag

with another former G-2 member,

"Pelencho."

In 1960 or 1961,

there was a public demonstration by the employees of the Cuban

Electric. Company who were dismissed vecause they were suspected

as counter-revolutionaries; HERNANDEZ attacked the demonstrators

by hitting them with guns and arresting some of them.

In front of

the Electric Company was a Conmunist Party site and HERV.LiDEZ

visited these offices frequently and was asually seen in the

company of new and old Comnunists.

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In December 1960, Ramiro VALDES formed a froup of twenty-five

former members

of the 26th of July Novemont in Habana

and former G-2 members.

VALDES:formed this group on the pretext of

an expected invasion from Guatemala

and this group was to stay with

him 1f the iñvastor should take place. HERNANDEZ was a member of

HERNANDEZ was transferred from the Cuban Electric Company to

the Departamento de Seguridad del Estado (Department of State Security -

DSE) and later to the: DaI:

In September 1963, HERNANDEZ spont a day in Jamaica in order

to.establish .contact with some Dominicans who were, according to.

source's information, to be transported to Cuba.

get to lexico, but was denied a visa.

HERNANDEZ studied for a. time

"Revolutionary Instruction" School in Habana; he seens to be very

convinced about the government

HERNANDEZ was born about 1939, is six feet one inch tall,

145 pounds, has a slim build, a fair complexion,

and short hair.

is married and has a daughter who was born in 1962 or 1963.

father 15 70th Sara Prince as the l dead, ERNAND, Cuba?

his telephone number is 29-5927.

Headquarters Comment

On HERNANDEZ records

of this Agency reveal no identifiable information

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