LETTER:ON MY TRIP TO EUROPE/VISIT TO CUBAN CONSULATE IN PARIS
Originator: CIA
To: BILL
Document date: 03/01/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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en el Consuludo de cuba enaris ques hebter recibido del

una tarjeta pillendore un relod vique, to entred

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rasanco

que else lo tenderla a rca Venegas ostela de legado

Cubangs en la U IS

"en Praga que yo conosco do les Habana

oscostuctantos

Ub AllErsanco 1o congel el ano pasado cundo estabaros on Particon RY

Consulado cubano

n este ocastan estuve en el consulado dos veces enterta

noche a coner a rasunco, un la conversasion: que tuviscon el en las vac

que hablros re di cuenta que su minere de pensar es contricia s4:80b10r.ao

de Cuba ho:, ques ne hablaba cuy nal del anbajador diciendo que 10s

obligatoriurnete

ir todos jos viernes e la ambajadà a recibir

Lecc Loneside

adoctrinaniento hasat les 11 de la noche a todos los enpleados del. Consulado

Say un Si que se

que el conse cartien le hace la vida posible y queen

"yle anbajada riana Vorales Ique me presento a veces decuten con olconsun

yotros empleados de la Embijade Este Br orales) tambion Pereco una buena

persona y no sinpatizsante del reginen de cuba 0b

•en Paris con una Sra Espanola

Tarbin me conto que la ultima vez que vio a Venegas este regresaba de

Argetia y que le decia que Ben Bella era un admirador de Fidel J que la

ruptura del partido corúnista Argelino era un ardid para sucar dinero

de los Americanos pero que era sosialista mig que Fidel! •

Bill le cuento todo esto para si cree que puede ser inte esante que

Do yo trate de que este Sri Crasancol trabaje para nosotros so creo que lo podria

lograr hablando con el en otra ocasion yo de jo el carino preparado pues

solicite en el Consulado de Peris in pasaporte que tendra que venir de

duba y

se denora 40 dias mas ostenos,

cuando tenga que pasar a recojerlo

podria erpez r a hablar con el si Uds lo creen conveniente despues

chequear bien este Sr.

nel consulido tarbin vi cran cantijad de revistes y de

libros de cuba que

ontregan cono propaganda en Paris.

Bueno Bill mis saludos afectuosos y espero que esto sirva de algo

para tratar de erreglar el problema de nuestra Cuba •

Recuerdos

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•Esteened B1113

the Cúban Coneukin Partel thasnuch as I had received a card fron

Mr. Venegas asking me for a vatch and that I should deliver it at

C the consu to Tracenco no vould sent it to Prone veneras a tre

Cuban student delegate in the UIE In Prague who I set In Habene.:

I met trasenco last year when ve vere in Parts wich sc lo the.

Cuban ConsulaTe

U6 the occasion I vas in the Consulate trice and one bight I

sovited truenco to alex. In the conversation I bed ilth ale ou

the occasion that ve talked, I realized that his way of thinking lo

opposed to the Government of Cuba today since he spoke badly of the

Ambessador saying that he obliges everyone in the Consulate and

Enbasay to go on Fridays to the Emhassy to receive indoctrination

unt1l eleven at night; that the Consul also rakes life unbearable and

that tie and e gentleran mad Moral who he once presented to ba;

argue with the Consul and other Embassy employees. Inle Mr frales? (6

also appears to be à good person, and he 1s unsympathetle to the

cuban rectae.

¡Tragance has his fontly in exile in tie U. So I sellere h1s

father and one sister and urnther work for pireetone in Chlo. He 19.

married te a Spanlah voman in iarlo.

T/BR

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He also told re the last tine te sew vedeens, he vas returbins mor

Algeria, and he told hit that led Sella wed an edmirer of Fidel end that

the break with the Algerian Coreuniôt Party vas a plan to bet money trou

the leericans but that he vas sure-öf a Socalist than Fidel.

8111, I an telling you all this in case you bellere it may be of

saterest that I try to one this in fraise to word for we reptil t

could do it by talking to him afalo: I left the vey open since I requested

e passport in the Paris Consulate which vill have to case sion Cube end

which will take to days... more or less. When I have to go by to pick

It up, I could begin talking to his. 18 you think. It beet after checking

this gentlenan out.

At the consulate I

also san a large giantity of fuban Magazines

and Books that they delleer for propaganda in Farls.

sell, 3111, my fond regards and I hope this serves sorrhat in

trying in solve our cuban problem.

Re derdr,

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