MEMO RE PEREZ, RALPH.
Originator: CIA
From: STEVENS, M.D.
To: CHIEF, SRS
Document date: 10/18/1967
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Schiel, SR

M. D. Stevens

PEREZ, Ralph

F444 260

18 October 1967

Document Number

1343-1055

for FOlA Review on

MAR 1977

1. Pita reference to Ralph PEREZ who is mentioned in

paragraph? of the attached memorandum on Rich rd S. CAIN

dated 9. October 1967, he would appear in all prob bility to be

Subject who in the spring ni 1963 becamde of interest to DCS (00/C)

for routine exploitation as a source of foreign positive intelligence.

2. On 28 June 1963, Security advised DCS regarding an un-

aubstantiated suport that Subject subscribed to the Communist

publication "VOZ de MEXICO" and was a Communist leader in

1944: He reportedly was & leader of the Communist nucleua in

the Chicago Mexican colony. According to a notation dated 6/26/63,

this information was' considered resolved in subject's favor through

1959 B.I, conductnd on subject's sister." DOs wae also informed

that Subject's sister (Maria Guadalups GALLARDO, with various

akas) was reported by reliable informants to have been a member

of the Mexican Commission of the Communiat Party in 1946 and a

card carrying Communiat Party member in 1951. During an inter-

View in 1954, she admitted attending meetings of the Communist

Party and a Communist Party school during the mid-1930'e in Chicago

but denied having altonded Communist Party affairs subseguent to 1945,

or ts ever having been a rember of the Communist Party.

3.

Vith reference to Guillermo ESCOBAR, whom Subject

(PEREZ) is said to have given Horace SPEED IIA $199 499, an a

lead, he may or riay not be Guillormo (ESCOBAR) MARTINE?, aka:

Gulllermo (MARTINEZ) ESCOBAR, # 111 260, a M'exican citizen who

in October 1956 wagliasued an operational approva! for use as a mem-

§ber of the LIPSTICK Tear in Mexico under unindicated cover. This

approval wae cancelled by ! I/Ill in a memorandum dated § November

1957. Thore is no derogatory information in ESCOBAR'e file and no

information on him since 1957.

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dowagrading and

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4.

The only other Guillerno ESCOBAR on whom there is

information in Security Indices l6 an individual by that nane. listed

in a 5 December 1949 report on The Fourth (TROTSKYITE) Inter-

national. This Guillermo ESCOBAR, Secretary General of the

Federacion de Obreras de Imprents de Chile, was listed as

g one of

the personalitles in the Partido Obreto Revolucianaria, an affiliated'

Chilean organization.

M. D. Stevens

Attachment: memo did 9 Oct 67

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