INFORMATION REPORT:JOSE MIGUEL FERNANDEZ ROA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/07/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBECT JOSe Miguel FERNANDEZ ROa

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

SOURCE:

A former Cuban IS officer

who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1964.'

Headguarters Comments

Information provided by the source

Information from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of the

individuals

mentioned

in the porsonality reports without firs

checking with this Agency.

reference).

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Headguarters Comments

• In a report dated 19 December 1956, an untested source reporte

ist the Juventud Socialista (Cuban' Comnunist Yout

Organization - JS) at the l'niversity of Habana was promoting

Jose Miguel FERNANDEZ Roa in the School of Philosophy

and

for the executive committee of the Federacion Estudiantil

Universitaria (University Students Federation - FEU).

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In a report dated 27 April 1963, it was reported by a usually

reliable

source that Jose M. FERNANDEZ Roa, carrying Cuban

Diplomatic passport 634214, arrived in Mexico from Habana.

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3.

marce, In a report dated 3 lay l9u.. ilated

that duse FERNANDE? Rod Is the Thard Secretary of. Dro Cuban

Embasso in dexico.

On li was 1963, another fairly reliable

source said thal Jose FERVIVDEZ Roa, the neuli appoined diplomat

to the Cuban Embassy in versed, is married and has or child.

4.

A usually reliable source, in a report dated 17 May 1963. said that

JoSe FERNANDEZ Roa 1S the Socond Secretary of the Cuban Embassy

in Mexico City.

5: A former Cultural Attache and Cuban Intellagence Serrice officer

gave

the folluwing

information ou Miguel FERNANDEZ Rua in a

report dated 21 August 1963:

Source first met FERNANDEZ in 1951 during the early

day's of the organization of the 26th of Julj Norement in Cuba;

FERNANDEZ was one of the organizers of the lovement.

later heard that FERNANDEZ was a member of the Cuban Intelligence

Service in the Cuban Esbassy in Mexico City. In 1954-55,

FERNANDEZ attended the Cniversity

of Habana, where he studied

philosophy and was a leader of the student group

"Luchando en

la Fila Ortodoxo."

In 1959 he returned to Cuba from Mexico

and was designated Cozandancia General de la Policia in Habana.

He was later named assistant to Efigenio ALVEJEIRIS Delgado;

when Ramiro VALDEZ replaced ALMEJEIRAS as Chief of Police,

FERNANDEZ remained

In his same position.

FERVANDEZ was born

in Manzanillo, Oriente Province.

about 1935.

His father at

one time worked at the Central Estrada Paima in Manzanillo.

FERNANDEZ is an intellectual type and liked

to live an easy

in accord with the Revolution. but was a

Communist sympathizer.

He is married, but has a reputation

for woman-chasing.

FERNANDEZ is about 135 pounds, five feet

four inches tall, has crown wavy hair, brown eyes, and a

fair complexion.

6. A usually reliable source. in a report dated 23 January 1964,

said that Jose

Miguel FERV.LYDEZ Roa was the Third Secretary and

Press Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

7. In a report from this Agency's representative in Mexico, l6 June

1964, it was reported that Miguel ROA and Jose Miguel FERNANDEZ

Third Secretary and Press Attache of the Cuban Embassy in

Mexico Cits, are believed to be identical. The description of

ROA given by the source in the above referenced report fits that

Of FERNANDEZ with the exception of the hair color; FERNANDEZ'

hair is dark rather than biond..

FERVANDEZ Roa is known by the

Cuban Embassy staff in devico as ROA.

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