INFORMATION REPORT- FELIX PITA ASTUDILLO.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/05/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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IINFORMATION REPORT

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

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SUNECT Fel1x PITA Astudillo

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MIS IS UNEVALUATED INPORMATION. SOURCE ORADINOS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAI OR CONTENT IS TENTATIVE

SOURCE A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Comments

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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.

Source identified a photograph of Felix PITA Astudillo as

being a member

of tho Direccion General de Inteligencia (General

irectorate of Intelligence - DGI), 1,2,3,1,5

Headquarters Comments

1. In a report dated ll August 1962, Felix PITA was identified as

the Cultural Attache at the Cuban Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

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and who have provided useful reports for two years,

that Felix PITA Astudillo is an assistant (sic) at the Cuban

Embassy in Rio de Janelro.

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A defected Cuban intelligence officer, In a report dated

1 February 1963, stated that Felix PITA Astudillo 1s the

son of Felix PITA Rodriguez,

the Communist poet.

During

the Batista regime PITA lived in Venezuela.

In 1961 ho

attended the MINREX Diplomatic School, he also attended the

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indoctrination school).

source described PiTA as having been born

about 1911 in cuba, king about five feet cight inches tall, 130

pounds, having light eyes, medium-dark hair, a slin build, and white.

did not know his Communist Party status.

A fairly reliable

source, from a report dated l6 February 1963,

that Felix PiTA is the son of Felix PITA Rodriguez, author,

PITA was born about 1941.

Cultural Attache about April or May 1962.

Source also stated that

PITA was rather cowardly' and timid, that. he was afraid to leave the

embassy premises and

would not go out on the streets alone.

appeared to be an opportunist rather than a Communist or pro-Castro

and possibly obtained his job through his father's influence.

In a report dated 12 March 1963, Felix PITA was identified as a

Cuban intelligence officer under cover as the Cultural Attache in

the Cuban Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

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