INFORMATION REPORT: OVIDIO SAMA VIAMONTE
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/15/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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INFORMATION REPORT

ASINEORMATI EPORT.

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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COUNTRY Cuba

REPORT NO. CSCI 316/01203-6-1

SUBJECT. Ovidio SAMA Vlanonte

DATE DISTR. 15 September 1964

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE.

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APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

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 from the records of this Agency.

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.

Ovidio SAMA Viamonte, pseudonym "Salgado," is the Cuban

Vice Consul at Veracruz, Mexico.

He was recently (Apr11 1964)

indived in the shooting of an individual who attempted to

omb the Consulate: SAMA is out of fail on bail.

Source said

hat SAVA is an officer of the Direccion General de

Inteligencia

(General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI).

source has no documentary proof, he said he knew of SAMA's

intelligence affiliation from his own (Source's) trip

o dexico, from observations in the del Headquarters, and Iros

eneral shoptalk.d,2,3,4,:

Headguarters Comments

1. An April 1963 report identified Ovidio SAMA Viamonte, Cuban

passport number 63/174,

as a Cuban diplomat assigned

Cuban Consulate in Veracruz, Mexico.

2.

A usually rellable source, in a report dated 2: May 1963,

stated that Ovidio SAXA was the Cuban Vice Consul in Veracruz,

Mexico, and that he was quite sick with an amoeba.

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3. An untested source, in a report dated 28 Nay 1963, said he had

received a letter on 14 lay 1963 from & friond of his in Cuba who

reported that an agent of the Cuban G-2, posing as a representative

of the Political Department of the Institute for Friendship with

Peoples,

arrived recently in Mexico. The agent, known only by the

nickname "SAMA," is operating in Voracruz, Mexico.

4.

A usually reliable source, in. a report dated 6 June 1963, stated

that Ovidio SAMA, an employee of the Cuban Consulato In Veracruz,

was in Mexico City where his wife had just arrived from Cuba.

5.

On 16 April 1964, two newspapers reported that Ovidio SAMA

Viamonte, the Cuban Consul

at Veracruz, Mexico, was Jailed in

Mexico City on 16 April 1964 after shooting and wounding Alejandro :

REINOSO Herrera, a Cuban exile. REINOSO threw two Molotov cocktails

at the Consulate.

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