OPERATIONAL-INITIATION OF CONTACT.
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nos maso a yos or no doeision on cooperation ithout tine to think things over

after the sooting, and (b) APSESS would moot only with ANNIP and the c/0, hé void

not Boot with any other KUBARKERS now or later. AMERS' prinoipalgroccoupation

seccod to ba in the reali of compartmentation.

3. ArRes susgostod that the sooting take place at sono outiying rosterant

but ANIP ouggested that it ulcht be more soure to noet in a hotol soon taore.

lunch could be sorved.

Aramas agreed to this suggestion and said ho would D10k

up ABiP la frant of the diana thoater at 1330 houre 25 September fros vance the

to would prosood to the hotel in a tarl.

do Ths atation obtained two edjacent hotel rooms and JoBeph H. RESCIONO (P)

smatalled taro trananitrora in the room poledred for the intorview.

station

paradinal, enmicated by Jain R. BANDAMANTE (P), surveilled both the protomp point

and the hotel.

Annes arrived at the piek-up point at 1335 hours and explained

that ho had doosdod not to proaced to a hotel.

Ho explained to AMliP that he did not

elen to be soarded, ds aould ensily be done in a hotol roos, since he did not at thia

simo usa to ba porsed into maling a do01d1oa.

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atardon poreonel tere. gulelly alerted and transfured the currellenco

14ss hors. At 14y0 the B/0 showed up and found amies and Alp seated me a

cablo for tho in the uparaire portion os the restaurant.

No cabloo for darto

noso avasdablo.. After a quials handahake with the S/0 AManso suggedred ise the

¿roup ropalrito the nearby rostaurent Manu Kal harl tablos would suroly bo avallo

abdo. An a deourty nosure ardias proddedod to it restaurent alone followed by

Arap and the c/O. Only two othartables mere sooupled, one by a Merloan Pesdly,

one by two amorioon tourista, AMBUSS, mas seatod at a table

In the ross. ine

c/0 sat don opposite AMBEBS and AMNIP sat at the e/l's sido.

6. ANNIP introduced the C/O As "Bob'10o," and Robertio," iMHaS was vor?

friendly. He appaared to be somenhat nervous sor the first hour of the tho hours

forty five minutos that the moating lasted, looking down at the table and panorally

arosding eye contaot. After this he was complotely rolared and maintanad yo

canteet with the C/o. He apole in rabld, rather sloppy spanish hoavily landed with

Cuban along. A musat loudapoater over the table offeatively blanted out the conven

pation for othor sustanara and the natore.

7: AMBRSS quiokly seminded the C/O that he did not intend to make any comait

mento at this sossion and that he wished this to be understood beforo the sooting

proddeded.

The C/0 said that he was interested primarily in exananging opiniona

with Ansess, had plenty of timo at his diaposal, and did not tiah to rush into

anything.: A round of drinke was ordered and the C/O proposod a toast for cuba.

'Bensing that thore was nothing to be gained by further delay or attention to the

amanielde the C/O launched into his pitan.

8. In canondo the pitch to AMESS was as followe!

"wo noed faots. In order to build a sound Cuban folloy.

In

too many oases those coming out of Cube as exiles toll us what

they think we want to hoar, rather then the truth. Por examplo,

No constantly hear that people are starving in Cuba yot one hia

only to look at those stepping off the Cubana planas here to lnou

that this is not the oase. He need faots, good newd or bad, but

Paots.

In turning to you, ve have no intention of aaking you to

rate aotion me to plant bomba, to moet with other pooplo.

A11

no are after la oooasional meetings to talk over the situatian

and we will not expose you to any other people."

"You would be surprised to know how many of your companions

off101ally tled to the Cubi governmant o peoplo uno aro

operating in place in rather than by those uno charge around

In apoodboats shooting up sugar milla.

We have been studying

all Cuban offloials abroad. Among those I have studied, you

look 11ke tho sort of man who oan be oounted on to holp build

a now cuba, Some poople in exile think you are à real rat but!

In atudying you I saw sonathing solid which our friend hore

(AMNIP) confirned. I an not tryang to butter you up. I em

parsootly capablo

o3 0a11ng a man a "aabran" or "aljo do Duta"

18 the words fit, but I think I'm a protty good judgo of

ahareoter."

"Our sole interost le in a free cuba - 1900 fes the onbees.

As a nattor of possible intorost to you, I was inod a rather

rabid Aldoliata mygolf.

My government has no desire to 80e

another Batiata in Cuba, or a corrupt "autantioo." He are well

anars of the reasons for the cuban revolution and sympathise

with sia logatinato dima.

we haven't forgotion the platt

menament of other darts pages of USeCuban rolations, lo an

act flenting the poople of Cuba, We are fighting Communisn 1i

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ang son, thas sunna the Ruestene and

the

bashose.

when Case

AIgRATO SO OvEr tO MaL do everything wa san to Ento cube tha

chenpleen of densaraay in the wearera Henlephoro.. Ald will

Dour sa. Ouba Mili have 158 on Maraaall plan, badauso se 10

so our mational intertet to do do. do you are bed aware, ou

RatSOnal IARaTedte, thORO Ol yoUr pOOplA and Iino, aSe eRecatlelly

cho sene."

hon the house of carde collapeds un want to malo the tinam

Leavo to drink cuba llbres "en pachengal with my many good friende

In cuba e then my governmant will sond me off to arasing Ruandene

and chinose, We will have scooplihod cur mission in Cube,"

"La roturn sor your cooperation you will roderra ae your

grantost rovard the antiaransion or having played a vital part in

tha liberarson of your homeland.

In addition I dan offor you tho

20 wall and shot in the paanions of tho nonent

and (b) а дизнra."

9. AER88 repllod as followes

"I am not going to give you a doftaite you or no todey. I

have already told AMNIP this.

I need tiny to think things through.

Il I doolde to join your toan I will do so without rosorvationa and

wall work with you

to the death if nodessary so I an not afraid.

have road a good bit about Communion and I must be frank in tolling

you that I find it looks vory good on paper.

Bat In praotioo st

dons not work and I have not boen blind to how 1t has vrooked Cuba.

Novorcholoss there aro a lot of convinood Communiato in Cuba now u

youngeters whose mole edusation has been in that direation. They

aro a dotormined bunah.

Pithermore, I do not 8001, as you apparently

do, that the Russians will ever relinquish their hold on Cuba, their

only solla bage in Latin Amarioa.

I long for the liberation of my

countty but I dennot 1el it on the horison."

"Tho last tima I was in cuba it soemod to mo that things

waro a bit better. There 1e food.

There ang shoes, although not

many and of very poor quality.

Of course, when you bring any people

down as far an the Cuban people have been brought, in steady deoline,

any betterment 1s instantly notloed and appreciated no matter how

slight and regardless of the faot that conditions in general are

st1ll way below what they should be."

"Thon, I also have the problem of my father. I mant to.

bring hin out and that may take some timo.

I don't want to do

anything now that will jeopardize my chanoes of pulling this off."

to contemplate that.

"I approdiate your viewpoints unian are carly stated and I

approdiato your sinoerity. You in turn must approolate to necessity

Por me to think things over, to have another look at cuba.

going on Sunday (27 September), to see about bringing out my father,

to talk to my friends there.

All of this I must do beforo I 80e you

agAIn to gIVe you y deoieion."

APERT

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10. In the antmared enversation watch enced st noda becane e100r chat

primasy dandern in cocpurasion doneurned hid securseys ho sooned to ponesder.

18 almost a certainty that ho vould sooner or later do diabovered, Faa C/0 devorce

sovera! sinuses to the cubjort of operational nourity, asturing MAsted that ho bad

never dant a man sno pastrully followed the almplo sulos of compastesatation thereas

may peedle hed bon lont boocuss they had. like so muny cubans, doesded to insom

done third party of their involvansat in intelligence soclusty.

that nowane elde in adyaas knew that the C/O was talking to Aside, at Hodguartere

so was caly inon that the c/l was in Merio on offiolal business.

AMsEAd Inquirod

about the posalbillly that the c/o might try to intradude him to other paorlo,

afflalala or ajanta, and was told that no ouch sotion vas contemplatod at tale ema

or in the farminale suturo and that AMaRal would ninaya be in a position to rofuse

such contear 18 he folt lt endangerad his soourity.

As an example of the organisation e

ondern with the safoty of those cooperating with it, Antals was raminded that many

of his calledguos are alroady cooperating but that lie would nover joarn the identity

of. any of then from the c/0, in a similar manner hit identity mould be protested fron

both splend and 100.

Li, In socordance with AMNIP'O AGBeDEDent Of AMERGE dd W1llIng to tal but Doi

maling to subait st this time to a filling, for the firat part of the booting the

oversation as allowod to drift with a minimu of direstián, later on the c/o

posed more diront questions and AMBEl provided difoct enswers.

AMNIP had outioned

the C/o ropoatodly to so daBy on AMBRS8, not to push him or to bring up topian taich

he neht construe an designed

For example, the faot that AMBiAS

was involved in a thest euge involving offlolai funde in cenaguey was not mentioned.

Tho approach was designod to entice AMaRSE into cooperation rather than to soroo him:

12, Some of the infosastion dran frOn AMERAS fOllONdi

And. has a groat and enduring love for his homeland,

Do He le blamed by a lot of people for the imprisonment ind exeoution

of many persona in Cuba. At the time that he funotionad as Bedead

Chiof of the Habana Polioe Patrol ho arrestod many poople an orders

from his superiore, Bone of those are still in prison, othora havé

boes shot.

Poople sho don't loon any botter look upon his as

arrosting offloor, trial judgo, jury, and firing aquad.

long ago a lady ha never romembers having seen beloro

"murderor" at him in Habana as he drove down the stroet.

Many

people think ho is a murderer. He doonn't roally care what thay

think.

His aconomio aituation is good in Marloo,

At one tim he could

have gotten his hande on 700,000 dollars, not he could mate off

with about 125,000 dollarg

,18 ho mished.

His salary do just

over 500 dollars a month (confims LITAINT trash report) and he

gote an alloranoe for exponsos of Bone 150 dollars a month. Te

government pays him for gasoline uned by hia car.

be transferrad to cuba hia situation would be sueh worse sinoo bio

salary would drop back to about 200 Cuban posos a month.

d. He buys some clothing stema from the United States by nail.

e. His Borvant 1s not to be trustod. she used to more for Ramon

SINOBAS.

No plandestine cormunieation with him should be

through her.

I. •His uiie la complotely trustmorthy in every respect. It would be

alright to leave messages with her.

8. Hio wife mould very mush like to see her

father, 18 possible around

January 1965.

He lives in Hialeah,

Florida (confirms JAVE Infor

mat1on). Aml doesn't much caro for his father 1nolan.

The feeling

18 mutual but Aal thinka 18 Hould do his vito a lot of good 11 the

father-inolan could visit Morioo. He has been unable to get a

Mexioan visa.

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h. He sould nos roport prom cuba by saddo no Deling statione aro

as chias shero as muchrooms.

•(Nothing was paid about a radio

lant wish dod up to this point.

Ho was assured that ho could

Do craned in a aooure mathod of ocumniantion nut inolving

raddo of third parties. AMNIP endorsed this atatement).

Ho was aurprised rouently to loarn that his nothor had ond been

a Communset in the 1930'D.

This faot nas brought to hia attention

by Seourity offfers in Habana who had. run a non seourity ohook on

Aul. His mother i8 from "unodusated country stook."

His nother and father are divorced.

te is mich oloser to his

father.

His father la about 70, biridate inino oven to himself,

and has had prostate troubie recently

before the revolution he was ancountart and worised for a man now

residing in New York.

The acoounting firm was callod Fallin

autierrer.

1, He has never viaited the US. He planed to visit Washington in

the early days of the revolution when a friond was Consul deneral

it washington.

mo

Fidei CASTRo'n reaction to the triai of Margod RODRIQUEZ Allonso

cAsTRO had no alternative. Had he

was not murprising to Ast ine Comminiate the people of Cuba; fad

used the trial to lobber

up with Comminism, rould have taken thie às lioense to run amok

and turn the country üpside down.

n. He was onoe in Prague, Crechoslovakia, He Pound this a drab as

presentoday Habana even though it is touted as the most capital

1st1e ofty in Communiem,

His cormeroial aotivities don't keep him very busy. He made one

trip to Binalos to buy garbanzos (chlok peas). He negotiatad the

redent purohase of medioal equipment from Hoffman-Pinther & Bosworth

that caused so much trouble and publiolty in the papers.

He got the

now-famous cheok from the Banoo del Atlantico because the bank was

short of oath at the moment, when it was not acceptable he took it

baok and got cash instead.

This affair daused so much trouble, he

had to go to Habana to explain things to hia superiore.

Antonio GARCIA Lara did a lot more traveling about on coumeroial

aotivity because he knew so many more people in Merloo having

livod here during the time CASTRO was fighting in cuba.

9o The Ambassador is spooked by the thought that the Embassy 10 full

of hidden midrophones.

Ho oalled a staff mooting and road an

artiolo frun Time

or life about alootronio eavesdropping; sinoe

then he has "saen" miorophones everynhere, (Confirms INTAMIL 9

roports).

r. The soviet Embassy l8 also very worriod about hidden miorophones.

The code olori of the Cuban Embassy in Montevideo once left the

Babassy with the code materials in hia possession.

Ho was gone

for two days, was unable to male contaot with KUBARK and oventually

went baok to the Embassy to his wife and children. He wis sent

baok to Cuba as a prisoner. (This 1tem was revealed to AMNIP on

24 Boptember):

In reminisoing ith AMNIP about mutual aoquaintanoes dating from the time

of thair sorvice togother in O2, AMSESS revealad the followings

de

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LUÍO DOMEZ 18 nOM Segundo jefe de Operaciones, DSE, Camaguey.

His fathor da en oldotime PSP militant.

D. IENDO1 ARCIA Domingues, aka "El Chino," 18 Jefe de Inspeccion

de la Pollola for the entire 181and, Camilo DOMEZ, a DuI man,

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soouded Aross of bring a hanonemud but Arosa throstoned ultaesses

againet hia and they deadded not to t0at18y.

BOrEIng firo so hia hone after a quartol with hia wiso so s8 a

B1B20S Of SOES MERAHANTIS, There MarO a lOt Of arpiOcios sen

tha shamas sanched ammunition and unploalves in the house.

Figuerado has boon senito the prison on the jalo of pinel.

do Tho offloo Ol MARUOL PINEIRO, ate "Farbaroja, " has been novad.

¿ran hio homo to the Miniatry of Interior bullding.

bobauso pinairo was afraid that a nuarby embaasy mould bi used al

a slatening poet for technioal operations againut hia of:loe.

•, Captala Armando TORRES, ala "El FrAnDOs," 1B In aharge of

coordination of guerrilla warfare training coursed.

S. MAJOr OUILlAMO JIMENEZ and CamiiO COMEZ not work for the doI.

(Throughout Anl refered to the DOI as "p'" = he did not uso the

torE DOI) .

Bo AntonIo ARQUELLES 18 nOW in oharge of teahnioal operatione of

DaB.

b. Captaln orlando PANTOJA 18 in aharge of the counter-infiltration

grOUp of DSE.

1. Aal was assignod to a course in dounter-drillitratial teohniques

when groups specializing in this were being bet up, but then the

Conmunists found out about this they removed him from the cource.

A Soviet general taught in this courso.

J. (Au) SANTACOLOMA 1s in oharge of the Plan Norto and recently

went through Mexioo en route to Canada; he did not roturn via

Maxtoo.

(DEAR IP-1 recently reported Enrique OLIUSKI In charge

of this plan known as the Plan Norte de Matanzas, a vattio

raising enterprise).

k. A Suourity offioial named (Mu) CAMPOS rebently ment througt

Mox100.

I. Alberto PEREZ, aka "El Loco," is now in Paris.

14 On the subjeot of " (Direadion deneral de Inteligonoia), tha following

exahango took plaoos

c/0:

Who so the "y" ahief in the Embassy?

Ala Vega, (Manuel VEDA Perez)

C/O: Is he hore permanently now, or temporarily?.

Aols Permanently, I think.

C/Os

Who olse is with "Mr

A=1:

Rogolio (Rogello ROIRIQUEZ Lopez). Bit he 1s just a vocond retor.

A=18

It wouldn't aloar up.

C/08 Are the other consuls with "M" « Mariano (Mariano GARCIA Peroz.

Ovidio (Ovidio SAMA Viamonte) and Posada (JOBA LUlA POSADA TOrTON)?

A-18 No. Mariano 18 a very good consul by the may. Bama 18 a jori.

c/08. Are you with ""?

• A-ls. Well, yes.

C/08

You are considered an "M" offloer « by "u" and by yourgels?

Yes, but I am on tre fringe.

I don't do saything important.

Nevertheless they consider me as still connected with seourity

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looued now seour&ty

'and thay sent one to

C/ĐI

C/08

Aols

my hame all fallod out.

Here or in Habana?

in Habana.

What do you do for u"?

Littlo jobs pron time to time. parvine out monoy, for eramplo.

X 1s going to Pario do I ment him in a stroet cornor at right

and hand him an envelopo with 2, 000 dollars in 1% ma that sort.

of thing.

C/01

Aals

that olae8

That's about 1t.

:C/08

In VILLAVIOGnO1O With "p9*p

(Pussied expression, looking to AMNIP) Wino?

C/01 EnrIquO VILLAVICENCIO Argudi reading into elda grin) He does

oh! No, he 18 not with off".

spoolal work.

C/08

Aali

What kind of spoolal work?

You know.

C/O8

Aral 8

The same thing Interian (Elpidio INTERIAN Comozanaa) used to 1o8

Thet's right.

C/08

Arol i

What Sardinas (Armando SARDINAS daroia) did before that?

Right.

C/08

Aol8

C/0:

Aa18

Where 18 Sardinas now?

In Yugoslavia.

By the way, he got into some trouble when he was

haro - foll in love with some gitl in Bollvia where he was bofore

ho camo hero-mantod to marry her = trouble vas he already had a

w1f8 1n Cuba.

He's older then he looks an about 51 u but he sure

was In love with that Bolivian girl, (This Information confirmo

data fron LIMUD and LICARD 1)

Have Villavio0n010's wife and sun arrived yet?

Yea, they arrivod just recently, (ConfirMs LIPIRE and INTAnley.

C/01 Was N10O (JOBe Antonio DARCIA LaSa) WIth ""8

A-l1 Yes, but he did work of oven loss importanoe than I do.

C/08

What evor happened to Earle PEREZ Frimen?

A=l8

He's In the Uruguayan Embasay in Habana.

whon he cams through

here he gave us some oooksand-bull story about having been kids

nappod a sald his gun was taken away frow him but ho had another

one tucked in his belt and got away from his oaptors (Bame story

told to LITAMIL»9). Just bofore he loft here he got a call at

the Embassy from sono faroigner uno olalmad to ba a Canadian. I

took the oall (Call was made by a Station offloer). I escorted

PEREZ to Cuba as a prisoner.

over there they put him in the

Prosidento Hotal lor e couple of months ma told him to sit tight

while they investigatod his story.

Then someone told him that

Bacurity had a cage on him and he

slipped into the Uruguayan

Embassy just in time.

Ho's a orasy kid u sandwiches throe 1108

In between each two truths.

He got into trouble iden another

guy, a cranma expoditionary from Montevideo, defectod here in

Marioo en route home.

C/0:

Santana? (Rolando SANTANA Reyes)

Right, Santane never was anything. A real nuility.

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25. In the courgo of tho conversation, AMaRES was aated a numbor of questione

about offloore in tho Embassy and gave the inlloting roplies:

What do Asoua (BuDablo AZCUE LOpOs) doing now?

He 16 working with Lachuga (CArlOs LECHURA Hovia) tho recently

took ovor the Cultural Counoll replaoing that Communior woman.

It jo interesting to noto that Lochiiga, uno 10 not a Conmenist,

raplaood a Communist, (Confirme LITAMILaD roporte)

C/O8

Aoli

Where de Teresa Proenzal (Torosa FROENZA PrOenza)

Probably 1n' bod with sono other "marimacha." (leablan).

she worke in tha CaBa de Las Amertons: she was pulled cut booduso

, of her notorioty as a losbian..

Habana got tired uf hearing

complaints about her son people uno came through here on tripo.

(ConflIms LITAMIL reDOTtO)

C/0:

Asle

When to Buenaventura (Buenaventuri REYES Adosta) coming bials!

It loake Ilke he won't, for two reasons.

He is having trouble

gotting a visa (Mertean) and, more important, his father 11ves

In Puerto 1100. (ContiIms IIMUD information.

Notes the report

of MEXI 0679 to the effoot that REyES was book in Mexido was

erroneous.

C/08

The Ambassador (Joaquin HERNANDEZ Armas) 18 due to go baos soon

and there are reports from Habana that he might be fired. Is

this true?

Al:

He was saheduled to go baok dunday but got a oable telling him

to malt a couple of weeks.

He will take his wife and daughter

with him when he goes.

He name here under a bit of a aloud

BOema he made Bone

statemants in Brazil at the tima of the

Dotober Crisis (1962) that were not too well received in Habana.

He has done some things wrong here, too. He has a very good

reputation as a lawyer in Pinar del R10.

He was married before,

began playing around with Clara (Clara CARBONEL Reyes, h1s

present wife) end his first wife divoroed him. Clara 1ß not a

Communist, The Ambassador 18 an old PSP typo. (Confirme

LICLOD»] reportE).

C/0:

When 1s Dra, Machado (Margot MACHADO Padron) leaving? Is Bertica

She is leaving very soon, probably on the next plane, and will

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C/O8 What 1s the news on Sinobas? (Ramon SINOBAS Casado) We hoar

from Habana that he 15 ooming here again.

Aola

That's right, he will be here very soon, He 18 going to replace

Dra, Machado.

C/Os Is Camilo (Camilo DOVENECH dudea) st1ll around?

Yes, he 18. my boss, (An1 appoered 11ttle disposed to talk about

Domenech).

C/08

How do you get along with Vega? (Manuel VEGA Perez)

Aols

Fino, I like Vega a lot.

He 18 a nice person and I consider him

& very good friond.

Vega 18 a most unusual type of Communist.

(During the conversation Aol mentionedthree or pour times his

friendship with Vega).

16, When the matter of an additional meeting was disoussed, AMSESS Bald that he

would be willing to meet the C/0 and AMNIP In December or January (1965).

sold that he was unable to see why 1t should take AMSE8S so long to make up his mind,

that he, the C/O, could come baok to Mexioo to see AMSE88 at any time, and that he

Mould 11ke to see APISESS soon after AMSpSS' return from Cuba, AMSE8B repeated his

condern about neoding ties to think things through and sald he could not possibly

¿ maet esain before November. He was invited to pick a date and chose 10 November

to wnich the C/O readily agreed. Although the matter never came up for discussion,

the C/0 had the impression that AMSSS8 in Interested in sooing which way the elections

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La tan undred statos so bofore having further contaat.

87. Tha c/o euscosted that the nast mooting take place at dose outoofathermay

restaurgat and met about to suggest the Restaurant Jardin in Villa Obragen when by

COSMOLdEND AMENSO sugHested the sana pleDo, emplaining tune he and hLe w18e had

eaten there a few tuman and that di seemed to ba a good spot for holding an monasrued

eating.

Tas santaat plan an agued upon 10 aa sullowas on or soon after 10 lovembera

RiBEr 30D0 houre, ANNIP or the C/0 u111 phone alcung at homo and tell him that "do

marto do Jasma, lan medioinas blogaran bion.

" I8 AMASS' rOpLy dA favOrablO or

DaBItivo, such as "a alogro mucho que hayan Ilignão" the meeting will talra place the

nati day at 1400 houre at the jardin, Il his reply le nogative, such an liento.

que so ho podião mandar nas" he viil be unablo to make the mooting the nast day but

wall be at the sardin ino dura later at tho hour indioatoe.

AMEnsE artioned the

C/D and AMNOP not to loave uny mossages for him with his mald.

18, One problem which had boen bothering ALlIESS sinco AMNIP IIFHt nado contaot

canoeined the advisability of roporting to hla ruperlors that AMNIP had contaotod

He brought this up repeatodly; saying that le felt he must report the contaot

to dover himael! in ouse the two had been suen rogather, however he mie olearly

undooided. At one point he said, "il I do raport it boloro I 80 to Cuba they u1l1

probably nover bellevo that AMNIP did not rocruit ma and might keep m in Cuba!"

after this thought had ocourred to him he opined that he should probably report

the conteot to Voge after his return from Cuba.

Both the C/0 and AMNIP adviaod him

not to roport the contaot and at the very end of the meeting. he seemed to have

nocopied thla advice.

As he was walking away

from the table he turned around,

cane baak to AMNIP and said, "please, for dod's sako, don't mention a vord of this

to anyone."

Althourh only a partial suocess at beat, the meeting soened to go woll.

AMNIP toid the C/O later that he felt that the case was much more promoing than

the LookE ouse at the same stage when LIOOZE asked for two months to think things

through. AMNIP also noted as a good sign the laot that AMSESS was very friendly

with the c/0 whereas AMNIP had expeoted AMSiSS to be somerhat standoffish in his

intrial dealings with a KUBARKER.

20. The C/0 represented himself as coming from ERMETAL.

This fiotion was

supportod by appropriate prups such as book matches, which Amsass noted, as weil

as by AMNIP's remarks.

At the same tine the C/O displayed considerable knonlodgo

of Maxioo Clty and goings on 1n Habana and the Cuban Embassy, this as done in an

offort to convinco AMSEB8

ronto that many of AMBRos, "I the omnicolende of XUBARK and to rointoros the stato

oolleagues were already cooperating. A number of

questions vero phrased in such a way as to causa AMsE88 to ballove that the

information in the C/O's possession came from sources in Habapa.

AMSESS conveyod an improssion of sincerity to both the C/0 and AMNIP.

Ho 18 a strong personality, quite sure of himself. and ready to fade the consequences

of hia aota.

He has a well-developed sense of humor.

The information he provided

natos him a tantallzing prospect for future development since he 18 obvioualy in a

much bottor position than INTAMIL-9 to furnish information of value. Much of the

information ho suppilod 18 confirmed by other sources and no evidence can be found

of doooption. AMNIP fools that AMSESS would not have imparted so much detail had

ho not already made up his wind to cooperate and that with the continued exeroise

of patience in doaling with AMSESS his recruitment would appear to be assured.! At

chio time AMBESS cannot be considered as rearuited.

He expoots to remain at his

present poot unt1l june 1965 and the station hopes to persuade him to cooperate in

plass and socopt transfer to Habana after the completion of his tour. The matter

of Minandial compensation has not yet been broached.

22. Depending on the outoome of the November meeting, the station may wish

to bring the father of AMSEBS' wife to Mex100.

Il he 1s unable to obtain a Mortoan

v1oa by hls oun offorts, 1t 18 felt that he should probably ba brought to Mexico on

PLoTto Ridan doomentation Biaoe station efforts to obtain him a visa through Maxioan

goversent ahannels might possibly joopardize the seourity of the operation.

It 1e requested that ANNIP be nade available to the Station for the follon

up contaot in November.

AMITP and AMSESS are cloBe friends and AMNIP'a presence in

tho 1n1 t1al stagos of the operation till do much to insure AMSESS' cooperation.

statson nould appreciate 1i 11 he can be scheduled to travel to Mexico on 9 November.

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