INFORMATION REPORT- ARSENIO FRANCO VILLANUEVA.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/16/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SOURCE: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligenco

Service unt1l April 1964.

Headquarters Connents

The following

report' is' one of a series containing personality

information provided by the source and includes supplemental

Information fron the records of this Agency.

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

individuals mentioned in tho personality reports without first

checking with this Agency.

ARSENIO FRANCO VIllanueva holds the rank of captain and la

Heacquarters Conments

1.

In a report dated 1 December 1961, an untested source sald

that sometime in 1960 he Joined the MRR and was assigned tó

the Sabotage Section under Jorge Francisco DIAZ.

group was penetrated by a captain of the Kunicipal Police

oi labana,

Arsenio FRANCO Villanueva.

FRAICO reported the

groups activities to G-2 during the Playa Giron larding.

2. In a report dated 2 October 1962, an untested source provided

a Ilst of G-2 agents, Communists

and individuals connected

with the communists.

Included on this l15t was Arsenio

FRANCO, alias "El Gallego," who was reportedly a captain in

Source said he was born about 1937, vas between 150

160 pounds, about six leet tall, had a white comploxion,

brown hait, and steen eyes.

An officia] travel manifest revealed that on 5 October 1962,

Arsendo FRANCO Villanueva, an active Conmunist Party member,

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srI1ved in Madrid fron Habana.

He was sreated at the airport by

ESTEVEZ, an employee. of the Cuban Embassy in Madrid.

A member of a group of Cuban emigres trained in the techniques

of information collection and who have provided useful reports for

"eno jears sald, In a réport dated 14 May 1963, that Areonto FRANCO

Villanüeva, a Cuban Police Captain, was a member of the Cuban

Delegation to the San Paulo games.

da untested source. in a report dated 4 May 1964, said that Arsento

FRANCO Villanueva, ras a captain in the Departamento de Seguridad

del Estado (DSE) and in charge of a11 DSE patrol cars in Habana.

His office was located at Las Maristas, La Vibora, Habana. FRANCO,

& Sierra Maestra veteran and formerly a Habana municipal pulice

was transferred to the

DSE in 1963. He is married and his

Sou po deso ted home can on to out me a feet call,

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