INFORMATION REPORT: JOSE FRANCISCO LLAGOSTERA GARCIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/08/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until 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 was shown a photograph of Jose Francisco LLAGOSTERA

Garcia and identified him as a Cuban Diplomat stationed in Mexico,

that ugh souVe A made mention of him TE 3, ergo bally, he recalls

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1. In a report dated 14 January 1963, a group of Cuban emigres trained

in the techniques of information collection and who have provided usefu

reports for two years, reported on personnel at the Cuban Embassy ir

Mexico City.

Included in this report was the name of one Jose LLAGOSTERA

(matronymic unknown) who was described as a contracted employee who

seemed to have a mission (sic), but appeared to be a gardner. Sources

believed that the gardners are G-2 types, because so many gardners are

unnecessary.

2. A usually reliable source in a report dated 13 June 1965, said that

JOSE LLAGOSTERA is returning to Cuba within a few days on leave. He

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3. A report dated 22 June 1963, Included a list of Cuban Dipleratic personnel

in Mexico.

Francisco Jose LLAGOSTERA Garcia, nickname "Pancho,

appeared on the list with the following biographic information:

Diplomatic or functional tith was described as "Mayordoma. " He was

born about 1924. LLAGOSTERA arrired in Mexico on 1l May 1962 and

carried passport number #/ 62,196. His wife, Marianela GONZALEZ

Piloto, passport E/62/410, and his son, Jose L. LLAGOSTERA

Gonzalez, passport number E/62/410, arrived in Mexico on

14 September 1962. The LLAGOSTERd's resided in the 'Cuban Embassy,

2nd floor, Mexico, D. F.

4. A source of paragraph l above (under Headquarters Comments!, in a

report dated 15 August 1963, stated that he had talked to Jose LI GOSTERA

Garcia, who had recently arrived in Mexico. LLAGOSTERA said his wife,

Marianela GONZALEZ Piloto, was residing at Jovellar 159, Apartment S,

Habana. He also said that he had participated in the interrogation of the

Playa Giron prisoners. LLAGOSTERA indicated that his currer' salary was

only $150.00 a month and said that he resided at the Cuban Emussy. His

brother, name not mentioned, has resideded in the United States for the

past eighteen years and in 1954 had obtained a United States residence

permit for LLAGOSTERA. Source described LLAGOSTERA as having

been born about 1917, being five feet sir inches in height, 135 pounds

and having a dark complexion, blacs hair, a moustache, and a pointed

5. A usually reliable source was told by Francisco Jose LLAGOSTERA,

an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, that Cubana

Airlines is accepting no other cargo for shipment to Habana but food,

medicine, and clothing. This was reported on 12 October 1962.

6. In a report dated 6 August 1964, from a Cuban exile with excellent

contacts in the Antillean Marine Shipping Corporation, it was stated

that Jose Francisco LLAGOSTERA Garcia is a suspected Cuban

Intelligence staffer attached to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.

As of March 1964 source believed that LLAGOSTERA was still

employed at the Embassy. Source has Known LLAGOSTERA for ten

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