INFORMATION REPORT BACKGROUND INFORMATIN ON PELEGRIN TORRAS, UNDERSECRETARY IN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 06/19/1962
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Cuba

Background Information on Palaerin

Torras, Under-ecretary in the Ministry

of Foreign Affairs

REPORT NO. CS D8-3/650,552

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19 June 1962

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Mexico, Mexico City

DATE ACQ. 10 June 1962

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

SOURCEI

Cuban (C) with nary contacts anong high-level goverment officials..

Appraisal of Content: 3.

Pelegrin Torrag, who has been appointed political under secretary in the.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

1s a long-time Cormunist but is a quiet,

conciliatory man, whose personal manner is anything but that of the

"typical comrade" and who 1s always "burled In his books". He 1s a

former university professor.

He is the brother of Jacinto Torras, under-

secrotary in the Ministry of Poreign Trade, who has acted as a sort of .

special secretary and alde to Raul Roa, Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Source Comment. Pelegrin Torras? appointment was probably supported

by Ros, who first brought him into the Ministry:

It 1s not known whether

his means that Ros had to take an old Communist, friend or not, as his

deputy.

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