INFORMATION REPORT- BALDEMIRO CASTRO GARCIA.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/14/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SOUACE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPAISAL OR CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE:

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cubar

Intelligence Service until April 1964.

Headgüarters Comments

The following report is one of a series containing personality

inforsation provided by the source and includes supplemental

inforzation from the records of this Agency.

•I is requested that the addressees take no setion on any o1

he individuals mentioned in the personality reports without

• first checking with this Agency.

1. Source identified Baldemiro CASTRO Garcia, a

oninican, as a member of the Marxist-Leninist Moviniente

Popular Dosinicano (MPD) who was a student at the guerrilia

variate training school in Cuba.

Source only saw CASTRO

once, and this was at the home

of the delegate of the

pro-castro Agrupacion Politica

• Catorce de Junio (APCJ) in

5'g' Fall, thin, and wearing a sustache.'

CASTRO was described by source 3s being about

Headquarters Comments:

1.

The representative of the APCJ in Habana was probably

Socrates Isajas

"Pupo" PEGUERO Sehourer.

source reported in TDCS-314/05506-64 that

PEGLERO will be removed from his position as representative

01 the APCJ in Habana, and will be replaced by Daniel

Abrfu, who is now in Habana.

2.

According to another source CASTRO 1s white,

5°10°

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a pocä-marked

face, kinky hair, and is "pop-eyed."

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3.

In May 1962 an untested source, who was thien a member of the uPD.

said that CASTRO uas probably Secretary of Horkers' Affairs or

the Central Committee of the MPD.

(See CS-3/511,325). An Offscial 4.

Tamaican germace heported In CS-3/561,001 that CASTRO arrived 1t

Anaston,

September 1963 en route to Habana as a

delegate

to attend the Seventh Congrees of the International Undon

of Architcits, to be held from 29. September to 3 October 1963.

His passport, No. 115933,

Issued on 10 September 1963,

that he

was born on 5 May 1928 in Santo Domingo and that he ras

an industrial enployee.

In December 1963 an untested source, a

member of the APD,

reported that the first rebel groups

under

the direction of the IPD had been formed at Hato Mayor and at

El Selbo,

in

the

eastern part of the Dominican Republic, and that

the Mato Mayor group, composed of about 150 men' from all leftist

parties, was under the leadership of Roman Baldemiro CASTRO.

(See IDCS 3/567,279). In October 1961 CASTRO is reported to have

returned to the

Dominican Republic from Cuba.. (See CS-311/06078-64)•

CASTRO 18 married to Ana Mercedes ESPINAL, and they have six

children.

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