INFORMATION REPORT:RENE DEPESTRE, HAITIAN COMMUNIST LEADER
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/17/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Rone DEPESTRE, Haitian

Communist Leader

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPEAISAL OF CONTENT IS VENTATIVE

SOURCE

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban

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

the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without

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fron an Official] travel manifest.

and his

wife, Edith, are living in Habana,

where DEPESTRE 13,

in effect, & salaried employce of Radio Habana, broadcasting

a program

in Creole to the Haitian populace..

Source was

asked

if he inew 1f DEPESTRE had a group of men for an

invasion of Haiti; source advised that DEPESTRE had no

invasion group, but believed that DEPESTRE was scheduled to

accompany one Jean Norbert MONTERO to Oriente Province in

January or February 196% to scout the province for guerrilla

trainee recruit's, but source does not know if DEPESTRE

actually went.

2. When queried regarding DEPESTRE's contacts in Moscow,

replied that he believed DEPESTRE had been

in Moscow

and, therefore, nould presumably have contacts there; but

source could not name any specific persons.

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED: INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE.

APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 13 TENTATIVE

SOURCES

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cubar

Intelligence Service unt1l™ 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 identified the name Rene DEPESTRE, a Haitian,

from an official travel manifest.

He advised that DEPESTRE

and his

wife, Edith,

are living in Habana,

where DEPESTRE 15,

in effect,

a program

salaried employee of Radio Haband, broadcasting

in Creole to the laitian populace.

asked if he inew if DEPESTRE had a group of men for an

invasion of Haiti; source advised that DEPESTRE had no

Invasion group, but believed that Depestle was scheduled to

accompany one Jean Norbert MONTERO to Oriente Province in

January or rebruary 1964 to scout the province for querrild

ralnee recrults, but source does not know it DEPESthE

actually went.

When queried regarding DEPESTRE's contacts in Moscow,

source replied that he believed DEPESTRE had been in Moscow

and, therefore, would presumably have contacts there; but

source could not name any specific persons.

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