INFORMATION REPORT- JOSE MIGUEL FERNANDEZ ROA.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 10/07/1964
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.

Source has now identified a passport photograph of Jose

Miguel FERNANDEZ Roa as being identical with Miguel ROA (see

reference).

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1.

In a report dated 19 December 1956, an untested source reported.

that the Juventud Socialista (Cuban Communist Youth

Organization - JS) at the University of Habana was promoting

Jose Miguel FERNANDEZ Roa in the School of Philosophy and

Letters 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 lexico from Habana.

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A fairly relsable source, In a report dated 3 Xay 1963, stated

that Jose. FERNANDEZ Roa 15 the Third Sccretary of the Cuban

Embassy in derico.

On l7 May 1903, another

fairly reliable

said that Jose FERNANDEZ Roa, the newly appointed diplonat

to the cuban Enbassy in Mexico, is married and has one child.

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I usually reliable source, in a report dated 17 day 1963, sald that

Jose FER'ANDEZ Roa is the

Second Secretary of the Cuban Embassy

In Mexico City.

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A former

Cultural Attache and Cuban

Intelligence Service officer

gave the following infomation on Miguel FERNANDEZ Ros in a

report dated 24 August 1963:

Source first met FERNANDEZ in 1951 during the early

days of the

organization of the

26th of Juls Movement in Cuba;

FERNWDEZ was one of the organizers of the Xovement.

He

later heard that FERNANDEZ was a member of the Cuban Intelligenco

Service in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico. City.

In 1954-55,

FERNANDEZ attended the University of labana, where he studied

philosophy and was a leader of the student group "Luchando en

la Fila Ortodoxo.".. In 1959 he returned to Cuba fron Mexico

and das designated Comandancia General de la Policia in Habana.

He was later named

assistant to Efigento ALMEJEIRAS Delgado;

when Ramiro VALDEZ replaced ALMEJEIRAS as Chief of Police,

FERNANDEZ remained in his sane position.

FERNANDEZ was born

in Manzanillo,

Oriente Province,

about 1935.

His father at

one time worked at

the Central Estrada Palma in Manzanillo.

FERNANDEZ is an Intellectual type and liked to live an easy

life.

He was hot in accord with the Revolution, out was a

Communist sympathizer.

He is married, but has a reputation

for woman-chasing.

FERNANDEZ is about 135 pounds, fivo feet

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

fair complexion.

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

said that Jose Miguel FERNANDEZ Roa was the Third Secretary

and

Press Attache of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

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In a report from this Agency's representative in Mexiço, 16 June

1964, 1t was reported that Niguel ROA and Jose Miguel FERNANDEZ

Third Secretary and Press Attache of the Cuban Embassy in

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

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

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

hair is dark rather than blond.

Cuban Embassy staff

in Mexico as ROA.

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