INFORMATION REPORT: JOSE POSADA TORRES
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/14/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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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 series 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.

Jose POSADA Tures, pseudonym "Calixto," 1s the Cuban

Consul at Tampico, Mexico.

le 1s an officer of the Direccion

General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence -

DGI) .

was reassigned to Tampico.

POSARA was Crime aged to Vera Cruz, but

Headquarters Comments

1.

When the source of the above irformation was queried

concerning proof of POSADA's association with the DGI

and the Cuban Intelligence Service, source sald he had

POSADA's affiliation

observations at the DGI Headquarters, and from general

shoptalk.

2. A fairly rellable source in a report dated 20 June 1962

provided positive identification of Cuban G-2 agents

Included on the list for agents in Mexico was

one (fnü) POSADA, the Cuban Consul in Vera Cruz.

was described as

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eight Inches tall, having broon hair, a this broan mustache,

and being obese.

This saze source in a report dated

1 July 1962, added the folloving Information.

POSADA alsO

has jurisdiction over Isla duheres where (ínu) MOSES, an

old time Gol member, is stationed. Masada relgis about

180 pounds, has a white complexion, and is very carelose

In his dress.

3.

A report from a usually reliable source dated 27 July 1962,

stated that the Cuban Consul in Vera Crus, Mexico, la

JOSC LUIS POSADA.

4.

Information dated July 1962 revealed the following Information

on Jose L. POSADA Torres:

Assigned to Vera Cruz In Deceaber 1960, POSADA

is reportedly also engaged in the distribution

propaganda "and the supervision of the Cuban espionage

service in Mexico.

He has been identified by a source

of undetermined reliability as either a member of

the Communist Party of 2 party adherent. He is knowr

to have

been in contact with General Feriberto Jara

Corona,

former president of the Mexican Peace Hovement,

a Communist-front organization.

POSADA reportedly

spent two years training in doscow.

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It was reported on 14 June 1963 that Jose Luis POSADA,

the Cuban

Consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico, nas departing

for Cuba on 28 June 1963.

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