INFORMATION REPORT SUBJECT JOSE POSADA TORRES.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/14/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUSJECT JOSE POSADA Torres

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14 August 1964

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• DATE OF 1964

INFO:

PLACE & Washington, D. C.

DATE ALQ AUguSt 1961

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INFORMATION, SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE: APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

SOURCE A forper Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban

Intelligence Service until April 1964.

Hezdquarters Comments:

The following report is one of a series containing personality

infornation provided by the source

ard includes supplenental

information from the records of this Agency,

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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.

JOSE POSADA TUITeS, pseudonya "Calixto," is the Cuban

Consul ât Tampico,

Mexico.

He is an ofiicer of the Dircecion

General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence -

POSADA was originall,2, sagged to vera cruz, but

was reassigned to tampico.

Headguarters Comments

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Then the source of the above information vas queried

concerning proof of POSADA's association

with

the DGI

2nú the Cuban Intelligence Service, source said he had

= docuentary proof.

However, he said he knew of

POSADA's affiliation from his our trip to l'exico, from

observations. at the IGI leadquariers, and fron general

shoptalk.

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A fairly liable source

in a report dated 20 June 1962

provided -isitive

identification of Cuban G-2 agents

Included on the list for agents in lexico was

(inü) POSADA,

the Cuban Consul

in Vera Cruz.

was described as having been born about 1936, five feet

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wight inches tall, having bioin hair, a this brown mustache,

and being

diese.

This same source in a report dated

• july 1902, added the folloring information:

POSADA also

has jurisciction over Isla luheres' where (fau) SONES, an:

old time G-2 menker,

Is stationed.

poSaRi weighs about

1SO pounds, has a white complexion, and is very careless

in liiy dress.

A repOrt SIon a UsuaLly

stapo that the cuban consula vera crue, rexico ly 1962,

JOSE LUIS POSADA.

Infor-ation dated July 1962 revealed the tollowing infornation

on JOSe L. POSADA Torres:

Assignod to Vera Cruz in Deceaber 1960, POSADA

1s reportedly also engaged in the aistribution

propáganda and the supcivision of the Cuban espionage

service in Mexico.

Fic has: been identified

by a source

-of tsceternined.rellability.as. either & member of.

the Connunist Party or a party achercat.

He 1s known

to have

been in contact. with General seriberto Jara

corona,

forner president of the lexican peace dovement,

a Communist-front organization:

POSAdA reportedly

spent two years training in dloscow.:

It was reported on 14 June 1963 that Jose Luis POSADA,

the Cuban

consul at vera cruz, mexico, was departing

for Cuta on 28 June 1963.

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