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TO: SAO PAULO INFO BRASILIA, HAVANA.

FROM: LIMIT CIC/LA INFO LA/COG, LA/COGEO, LA/COGIO LA/ SAGSC,

CIC/CEGLAAF

SLUGS :

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555

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SUBJECT:

RIO MEETING OF CUBAN CI OFFICERS AND ALLEGED CIA

OFFICERS

S REF:

A. SAO PAULO 61631 95 1298402

B. SAO PAULO 61496 95 1181973

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-ACTION REQUESTED:

SEE BELOW.

PLEASE FORWARD ANY

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SEMINAR OR ATTENDEES.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS PROVIDED REF A WERE MUCH

APPRECIATED. CHECKS OF AGENCY INDICES DID NOT TURN UP A JOHI

NEWMAN AS A CURRENT STAFFER.

HAVING ONLY JOHN NEWMAN'S NAME, AS

PROVIDED BY THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, WAS INSUFFICIENT TO RUN A

MEANINGFUL CHECK OF OTHER INDICES AND PERSONNEL RECORDS.

_FABIAN ( (ESCALANTE) ) FONT (201-969899) LAST SURFACED

PUBLICALLY AT-THE JANUARY 91 (ANTIGUA) AND JANUARY 92 (HAVANA)

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS CONFERENCES.

AN NC /WASHINGTON ASSET WHO

ATTENDED THE 91 CONFERENCE AND SPOKE WITH ESCALANTE WAS TOLD BY

HIM THAT HE (ESCALANTE) BELIEVED THAT ' SOME ELEMENTS OF THE CIA

OPERATIONAL ARM' IN COMBINATION WITH THE MAFIA WERE RESPONSIBLE

*FOR THE<ASSASSINATION>OF< PRESIDENT KENNEDY. > ESCALANTE MADE IT

CLEAR THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE THE CIA ACTED ON ITS OWN.

ESCALANTE'S CURRENT POSITION IS UNCLEAR. THE ATTENDED THE

CONFERENCE AS A POC-CC MEMBER.

CHIEF OF MININT'S POLITICAL SECTION WHO WAS BRIEFLY CHIEF OF THE

PCI FOLLOWING ABRANTES' DISMISSAL AND WHO IS NOW WRITING MININT

UNIT HISTORIES.

ESCALANTE ALSO TOLD THE ASSET THAT HE WAS HEAD

OF THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SECTOR/CHIEF OF COUNTERESPIONAGE FOR

THE US AT THE TIME OF THE MISSILE CRISIS, AND THAT HE WAS

RESPONSIBLE FOR INTERROGATING ALL SUSPECT CIA AGENTS DURING THE

1960'S

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ANY INFORMATION BASE CAN OBTAIN ON THE

SEMINAR AGENDA)

AND ATTENDEES AND WHAT PROMPTED THE HOLDING OF THE SEMINAR BY

JOSE LISBOA DA (IGAMA MALCHER)! WOULD BE OF INTEREST IN

EVALUATING THE CUBAN HAND AND INTENT.

INTERESTED IN LEARNING WHETHER AGEE OR ANY OF HIS ILK PLAN

ATTEND AND THE MEANING OF SROULEVICH'S STATEMENT REGARDING CUBAN

'I OFFICERS' 'PARALLEL CONTACTS' WITH CIA OFFICIALS EXPECTED TO C

BE IN ATTENDANCE.

FILE: 010-009-013, 201-969899. DECL OADR DRV HUM 4-

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34429) ; AUTH: CIC/LA; COORD: LA/COG,

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