MEMORANDUM: COBB, VIOLA JUNE, C-83492
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: CHIEF, CI/OA
Document date: 10/15/1962
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

CECRET,

15 October 1962

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Chief, CI/OA

SUBJECT

: Viola June COBB, C-83492

Reference:

Request for Information and Review,

9 October 1962

1. As requested in the reference, attached

hereto is a copy of the technical interrogation of

Viola June COBB.

(Please return this file to

WH/3/Mexico for Subject's 201).

2.

Staff D collateral information, routed

through CI/OA on 9 October 1962, provided no

derogatory infornation that is not included in

Miss COBB'S 201 file:

expulsion from Guatenala

in November 1961 after proof was obtained by the

Government of Guatenala "that she was a Castro

agent whose mission in Guatenala was to distribute

pro-Castro and Communist propaganda

among university

students"; translator of a book written by former

Guatemalan President Juan Jose AREVALO, "The

Fable of the Shark and the Sardines," which assails

government and business in the United States.

3.

Below is a summary of information from

subject's 201 pertinent to the reference, witt

attachments which are to be returned to wH/3/Mexico

for inclusion in Subject's 201.

Since Mexico City

Station has consistently provided information

concerning Subject and her relation to Station

operations and agents, no further field traces

will be requested unless requested by your office.

a. Viola June COBB, born in Ponca

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Oklahoma, on 24 August 1927, left

City' sor Mexico City in 1947-48 after

her father remarried.

She has since lived

in Ecuador, Cuba, and Mexico, and has

been involved with the men and politics

of a number of Latin Countries. During

these years she has developed a host of

friends and acquaintances, both U.S. and

Latin,

that includes political leaders,

journalists, diplomats, and men and women

from a number of professions, some of

which do not enjoy general social acceptance.

Her taste in friends is omnivorous.and

she embraces (sometimes literally) and

has access to extremists from both right

and left political groups and has variously

been accepted and distrusted by both pro-

and anti-u.s. interest groups.

(See List

of Associates, para. 3, d,1, below).

First

contacted

by a KUBARK Staff Employee in

Habana in 1960 when she was employed..by

the government of Fidel Castro, she reported

on Cuban personnel and activities until

she left Cuba and for sone time afterward.

She was picked up by Mexico Station in

December 1961 when she had lost her access

to Cuban targets and has been reporting

on the activities and thinking of various

Latin pro-Communist revolutionaries

including LINLUCK, a Communist Party

penetration who is her current lover.

b. She has intentionally or

unintentionally indicated her employment

with the U.S. Government to a number.of

Intimates and acquaintances.

Persons

suspecting her association

with u.s.

intelligence include

the following:

Horacio GODOY, Argentine law professor;

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Bayless MANNING, Yale University law

professor;

Michael Sidney COLIN, U.S. citizen who

was associated with Willian L. Morgan

in Habana;

Rosalbo ROCA, close friend in New York

who is a citizen of the Dominican Republic;

and Diane ALEXANDRIA, also a friend in

New York City on resident visa.

C.

In March 1962 she was called before

the Senate Subcommittee on Internal

Security and questioned on Cuban associations

and activities.

To our knowledge, she

did not divulge any contact with

KUBARK.

As a result of this hearing, she was

contacted by Drew Pearson's

assistant,

Jack Anderson, and the interview resulted

in an article

in Parade, the Washington

Post, 12 August 1962.

d. Attached to this menorandum are

the following documents fron Subject's

201 (to be returned to WH/3/Mexico):

1.

List of Associates of Viola June

2.

3.

COBB. (1960)

Memorandun to WH/3/Mexico, from

RH/A/CI (on Subject)

Memorandum for the Record (2 April

1962).

Contact report with Subject

concerning Senate Subcommittee

hearing.

4.

Article on subject from Parade:

"Heet June Cobb."

Ned P. Holman

Chief, WH/3

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