INFORMATION REPORT: JOSE RAUL VIERA LINARES
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/16/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SOURCE:

A forner Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1964.

Headquarters Comments

The following report 1s one

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

the individuals

mettioned in

the personality reports without

first checking with this Agency.

Scurce

identifted a photograph of Jose Raul VIERA Linares,

pseudorym

"Gomey,"

and said that he is the dess officer for

Colomhia In the Seccior. Sur (South American Section) of the

repartamento de Liberacion Nacional (The National Liberation

Department - li) in the Direccion General de Inteligencia

(General Directoraté of Intelligence - DGI). VIERA MaS a DGI

1 1963. He has not traveled since his return to Cuba.

Headquarters Comments

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A usually reliable source,

on 24 February 1961, reported that

Jose Raul VIERA Libares, borr on 20 April 1910 in Clenfuegos,

Cuba, arrived in Madrid

from Hexico-Habana on 19 February 1961,

for a position 1n che Ciban Embassy in Hadrid.

He carried

Cuban Diplomatic passport number 29, issued tu Habana on

6 February 1961.

Castro in ladrid.

He was residiag at the Hotel Rosalla de

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In a document dated 3 July 1961, it was reported that the

Bolivian Foreigo Ministry announced on 23 June 1961, that it

had asked the Cuban Foreign Ministry to recall their Cuban

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Charge d' Affaires because he had interferred in Bolivian domestic

affairs.

The Cuban Foreign Ministry apologized and satd. they wouzd

withdraw him.

In the same message provisional accreditation was

asked for Jose Raul VIERA Linares

for the position of Charge

d' Affaires in Bolivia: On 21 June 1961; VIERA arrived in La Pas

from Santiago, Chile, where he was first Secretary in

Embassy.

It was also stated that ViERA was born in

his first diplomatic post was Santiago, and that he was a voluntary.

teacher in Cuba prior to entering the diplomatic service:

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A fairly reliable source, in a report dated 15 March 1963,.

that he met Raul Jose VIERA Linares, a Cuban diplomat assigned to

La Paz, In Santiago about 21 February 1963.

VIERA 1s married tó

Maria Cecilla BERMUDEZ de Viera and they have an infant daughter,

Isabel VIERA Bermudez.

4. A report dated 20 March 1963 gave the following Infornation on

JOSE Raul VIERA Linares:

VIERA replaced Mauro GARCIA Triana as Interim Charge of the

Cuban Embassy In La Paz in late June 1961.

He held this position

until the arrival of Ramon AJA Castro on 13 March 1962.

untested source said that AJA severely criticized VIERA after

his arrival and relegated VIERA to Cultural Affairs officer,

& relatively low position.

Another untested source said that

VIERA has been meeting Cuban couriers at the airport which

would seen to indicate that VIERA has not climbed back'up into

the hierarchy of the Cuban Embassy.

5. A report dated 15 October 1963,

stated that Jose Raul VIERA Linares

nas being expelled from li Paz for attempting to get information

from the Bollvian Forcign Office by clandestine means. VIERA waS

expected to leave La Paz by 15 October 1963.

6. An lotricia travel mantlest revealed that Raul Jose VERA, his wile,

Maria VIERA Cogilla, and his daughter,

Isabel VIERA Beatriz, went

to labana from

Mexico City on 14 October 1963.

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