INFORMATION REPORT: GUILLERMO ARASTAGUIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/11/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT Guillermo ARASTAGUIA

REPORT NO. CS CI 316/00643-64

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Do Noi Reproduce REFERENCES CSCI-3/779,803

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE ORADINOS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVR

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 serles containing personality

information provided by the source and includes supplemental

information

fron the records of this Agency.

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

the individuals

mentioned

In the personality reports without

first checking with this Agency.

Guillermo ARASTAGUIA, pseudonym

department pasted operate "al Support he shierol the

Direccion General de Inteligencla (General Directorate of

Intelligence - DGI).

He was formerly the secretary of

Ramiro VALDES In the Departamento de Seguridad del Estado

(Department of State Security - DSE), but ARASTAGUIA was a

follower of Anibal ESCALANTE and because of a problen

concerning ESCALANTE and because ARASTAGUIA was believed to

be a homosexual, VALDES transferred him to the DGI:

ARASTAGUIA

went to the Youth Festival in Helsinki as a representative

of the DGI and has traveled to Moscow three times.

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ARASTAGUIA was

born in 1934, 1s about five feet seven inches

1n height, has

blond hair and green eyes.

He is fat, has a

chin that juts out, lips that are somewhat sunkef;zad has a

rather high pitched voice and seems effeminate.

Headquarters Comments

1. A report dated 6 October 1960, from an official Ecuadorean

ARRASTIA, OKA

provided a list of Cuban Communists.

One Guillermo

"Rene," possibly identical with Guillerno

ARASTAGUIA, was included and described as a first lleutenant,

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erecutive. in G-2.

ARRISTIA was reported to here the confidence

or Raul CASTRO and Ramir, VALDES; and he was VALIEs' righthand

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in G-3.

2.

An official roster listing the milltary staff personnel comprising

she Intelligence Department, G-2, of the Cuban Miaistry of the

draed Forces (MINFAR) tas recelved by a represestative of this

Agency from an untested source in a report dated l Harch 1961.

Included on this list nes one First Lleutenant Guillermo

ARRASTIA Fundora, possibly Identical With Guillerzo ARRASTAGULA.

3.

In a report dated 28 October 1962, a list of ideatifled and

suspected Cuban intelligence officers was included, the list was

received from an official liaison servicol

One First |l

Eleutenant Guillerso ARRATIA (or ARRASTIA) Fundora vas included :

on the list and described as an identified intelligence officer

on the G? Headquarters staff.

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