REPORT CONCERNING RALPH PEREZ.
Originator: CIA
From: STEVENS, M.D.
To: CHIEF, SRS
Document date: 10/18/1967
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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Real i.

Suchier, sas

IC/SRS and C/FIOD, Sks

M. L. Stevens

PEREZ,

Ralph

F44÷ 2611

18 Catober 1967

Document Number.

1343-1055

for FOlA Roview on

MAR 1977

" ith reference to Ralph PEREZ who is mentioned in

paragraph 2 of the attached memorandum on Richard S. CAIN

dated 9 October 1967, he would appear in all probability to be

Subject who in the spring of 1963 becante of interest to DCS (00/C)

for routine esploitation as a soarce of foreign positive intelligence.

2. On 28 June 1963, Security advised DCS regarding an un-

substantiated report that Subject subscribed to the Communist

publication "VOZ. de MEXICO"' and was a Communist leader in

1944. He reportedly was a leader of the Communist nuclena in

the Chicago Mesican colony. According to a notation dated 6/26/63,

this information was considered resolved in Subject's favor through

1959 B.I. conducted on Subject's sister." DOS was also informed

that Subject's sister (Maria GuadaluDe GALLARDO, with various

akas) was reported by reliable informants to have been a member

of the Mexican Commission of the Communist Party in 1946 and a

card carrying Communist Party member in 1951. Daring an inter-

view in 1954, she admitted attending meetings of the Communist

Party nad a Communist Party school during the mid-1930's in Chicago

but denied having attended Communist Party affairs subsequent to 1945.

or te ever having been a member of the Communist Party.

3. l'ith reference to Guillermo ESCOBAR, whom Subject

(PEREZ) is said to have given Horace SPEED II, 1199 499, a a

lead, he may or may not be Guillermo (ESCOBAR) MARTINEZ, aka:

Guillermo (MARTINEZ) ESCOBAR, 1414 269, a Mexican citizen who

in October 1956 was issued an operational approval for use as a memo

ber of the LIPSTICK Team in Mexico under unindicated cover. This

approval was cancelled by NH/Ill in a memorandum dated 9 November

1957. There is no derogatory information in ESCOBAR's file and no

information on him since 1957.

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%. The only other Guillermo ESCOBAR oR whom there 1s

information in Security Indices lo as individual by that name llsted

In & 5 December 1949 seport on The Fourth (TROTSKYIIE) Inter-

national. This CulllerIo ESCOBAR, Secretaty GeReral dl tie

Chilean organization.

Ad. D. Stovers

Attachment: memo did 9 Oct 67

MDS/cer

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