INFORMATION REPORT: SUBJECT - JULIO DAMASCO VASQUEZ
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/08/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

. LENiXAL INIELLIGENCE AGENCY

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COUNTRY

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Cuba

REPORT NO. CS CI-316/00715-81

Jullo DAMASO Vasquez

DATE DISTR 8 September 1984

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REFERENCES.

DATE Of

1964

RETURN TO CIA

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Background Use Only

DATE ACQ.

Sautember 1961

FBO REPORT NO.

Do Not Reproduce

THIS IS UNEVALUATED IMPORMATION SOURCI CANOPOS

ANA DEFINITIVE

APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TRATATIVI

SOURCE,

A former Cuban IS allicer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Comments

The following report is one of a series containing personality:

information provided by the source and includes supplemental

information from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addresanes take no action en ery ol the

Individuals mentioned in the personallty reports without first checking

with this Agency.

An Individual whose true name Is not known but uses the name of

Jullo DAMASO Vasquez, pseudonym "Sergio," 18 a Cuban Intelligence

stalfer. He has been trained for an assignment to Central America in

parachuting, secret writing codes, ciphers, and radlo, but who until

very recently, was still in Cuba, 1, 2, 3, 1, 5, 8

Headquarters Comments

Vasquez above.

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ressed, Masari,

when it lasted near Mandinga, 2 ptara Colorado, San Blas

• Territory,

Parama,

on 25 daril 1959. The Guardia Nacional did not

reseal their source,

howerer, sewspaper accounts indicated that the

Guardia)lound a list of the 87 names on the reveree side of a United States

29 Naral chart aboard the Marar:

Included on the lis: ras one Julio NUSCARO

Vasquez, possible identical with In: DADIASO Vasquez.

3.

A fairly reliable source, in a report dated 15 May 1959, stated that

he was present during the initial questioning of the Cuban youths who were

captured at Portobello during the invaston of Panama' He Identified one of

the youths as Jullo Damaso VASQUEZ, born about 1936. He was a medical

student who had one year of study left before he could get his degree. He

joined the Sierra Morena rebel forces and was made in army doctor and given

the rani of captain.

4. A usually sellable source, in a report dated 29 August 1960,

said that

Julio Damaso VAsQUEL was working lor cuban a and had odered a

friend in Panama a position with Radio Rebeldp.

. In a report dated 2 June 1962, an untested scarce reported that

Jullo DAMASO was the administration chief at the Moa Bay Nickel and

Cobalt Plant and a Communist. He said that DAMASO participated

in the Cuban attempt to invade Panemia.

Source described DAMASO as having

been born about 1935, being about five feet nine inches tall, having

a medium build and white.

An untested source, in & report dated 22 December 1963, said that

Julio DAMASO Vasquez was a lieutenant in the Departamento de. Seguridad

dei Estado (Department.of State Security - DSE) detalled to Minas de Moa,

Baracoa, Oriente Province,, Cuba,

DAMASO was a close friend of Ramon

VAZQUEZ Montenegro, a known Cuban Intelligence Service officer.

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