DISPATCH: INFORMATION ON 13 OF MARZO MEMBERS FROM GUILLERMO GONZALES SEAVEDRA.
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Document date: 09/15/1969
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11 August 1969

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

TO: CAS - Hadrid

FROW: Army Representative

SUBJECT: 1. Integram with Cuban limigre Gulllermo GONZALEZ

2. Partial Biographical Data Major Victor DREKE Cruz

1. On 31 July 1931, and 4 August 1969, Guillermo GONZALEZ

Saavedra (CC 4113) a 3l-year old Cuban emigre who arrived in

Madrid, Spain, on 19 June 1969, was interviewed in Madrid,

Spain,

and stated substantially the following:

He was born

in Central Fidencia, Placetas, Las Villas, Cuba, on 8 June 1935.

He has a sixth grade education.

In 1957,

he joined the 13 of

March Movement, and became the aide of Major Rolando CUBELA

Secades at the

Escambray mountains.

Upon the overthrow of

Batista in 1959, he continued as aide to Cubela with the rank

of Captain of the Revolutionary Army.

In May 1960, he was

assigned Chief of the Transportation

Repair Shop. Zone H-7;

Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA), located in San Jose de

Las Lajas, Havana.

In January 1961, he was apprehanded by the

Cuban authorities, and charged of cooperating with a counter-

revolutionary movement headed by ex-Cuban Major Cesar PAEZ.

Though Source indeed sent weapons to Paez, he denied it, and

the Cuban

authorities could not prove Gonzalez connection with

the Paez movement.

He was released from jall in May 1961 and

he was reassigned to INRA, Sal Jose de Las Lajas, but was not

appointed to a specific job. In August 1961. he

was approached

by Major Enrique OROPEZA who offered him a job with the State

Security Department (DSE).

His first assignment was to infil-

trate a suspected counterrevolutionary organization being

formed by personnel of the Transportation Repair Shop, INRA

Lone H-7.

Oropeza said that he vas ideal for the assignment

because

he has just been released from prison, and the counter-

revolutionaries would have confidence in him.

Source did not

accept Oropeza's proposition, and in turn warned the members

of the Transportation Repair Shop.

From August 1961 to April

1962, he was Chief of discipline of Hermano Gomez Technical

School (former Belen College), Havana. In December 1961,

he

was discharged from the Revolutionary Army, but continued to

work, as a civilian, in the same position.

From. April 1962 to

December 1962, he

was Chief of discipline of Havana

University

students dormitories which was located between 12 and Malecon

Streets, Havana.

From February 1963 to June 1964, he was the

Administrator (Administrador) of a pre-medicine course which

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was being conducted at building "Sonellan", 17 and O Streets,

Vedado, Havana.

From August 1964 to September 1966, he was

Paymaster of the construction projects at Ciudad Universitaria

"Jose Antonio Echevarria, Marianao, Havana.

In 1965, he divorced

hig wife Zenaida

ARCE Fernandez who is living at 35-25 164th

st.,

Flushing, New York, and whom he re-married by proxy on 6 April

1969.

Upon divorcing ARCE, Source moved to Cubeln's home,

38 Street, Havana (exact address unknown), where he lived until

Cubela's arrest by theCuban authorities for plotting to kill

Fidel CASTRO.

On the day

in which Cubela was arrested Source

was managing a kiosk (a temporary hut in which people are sold

drinks during carnivals) at a Carnaval in Havana. and did not

sleep at Cubela's house.

When he returned to Cubela's house

he learned from Cubela's mother, Virginia SECADES, that Cubela

had been arrested and that the house had been searched by the

Cuban police.

Other persons which were apprehended for plotting;

with Cubela, against the regime, were Ramon GUIN, Alberto Blanco,

(FNU) GALLARRETA,

and two unidentified Cubans.

(Source denied

having any knowledge of the plot, though he suspected that some-

thing was going on).

Source was never interrogated by the

police on Cubela's plot, but noted that he was being followed

by DSE agents.

Prior to Cubela's arrest Major Faure CHOSON

and Efigento ALMEJEIRA, two or three times a week, visited

Cubela and engaged in private talks.

Source never participated

in the private talks between Chomon, Almejeira and Cubela.

The last time he talked to Chomon was on 24 December 1965, when

Source made a social visit to Chomon at his house in El Vedado

(address unknown), accompanying Cubela and Guin.

Politics was

not discussed during

the occasion.

Gonzalez attended Cubela!s

trial accompanying Cubela's mother.

Source could not provide

details of the proceedings other than saying that "the Cuban

authorities knew everything about the plot!

Cubela made

about a one-hour long speech on his behalf; in his speech he

admitted he had had a meeting in a hotel in Madrid with ARTIMES

(fou) a Cuban exile, Alberto Blanco, and ROBENO (Inu), allas

"El Mago," a Cuban exile residing in Barcelona, Spain, who

"everyone in Cuba knows he is working for the CIA; but that

the meeting was very vague and that the attempt to kill Castro

was not going to be pursued. Cubela also admitted having a

reakness for drugs.

In the same trial Roman Guin admitted

plotting against Castro and divulged the name and address of

& CIA agent who had contacted him in Havana (name of agent

unknown).

About four months after Cubela's trial, Gonzalez

visited Major Victor DREKE at.

his home, near Havana Z00.

(Source has met Dreke in 1957, when both were Cubela's aide

12 El Escambray). He told Dreke that he was being followed

by DSE agents.

Dreke told Gonzalez that he was going to take

the matter with Jose ABRAHANTES, Chief of the DSE.

Since

Gonzalez visit to Dreke, Source did not notice being surveilled.

During the first quarter of 1966, Source met at a party, Mirtha

PEYROT Alfonsos, a female 39-year old Uruguayan doctor heart

specialist, who

was under contract with the Cuban Government.

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Gonzalez thought of an opportunity of leaving Cuba with the

help of Peyrot.

He married Peyrot two or three munths after

they first met. Peyrot made an attempt to get an Uruguayan

visa for Gonzalez, and in her attempt she made a long distance

telephone call,

to Uruguay,

to an Uruguayan doctor named Carmen

(Inu), who Peyrot claimed was the personal doctor of the Uruguayan

Minister of Interior.

Peyrot also told Source that Carmen

was

the one who got her into accepting the Cuban contract.

Failing

to get an Uruguayan visa for Gonzalez, Peyrot opted for paying

Gonzalez airplane fare to dadrid.

Source had limited knowledge

of Peyrot's background.

She had been in Cuba from 1963 to 1964.

Gonzalez became suspicious that Peyrot was cither working for

the Cuban intelligence or the CIA, when she began asking him

captious questions about himself.

In public, openly and unafraid,

she expressed disaffection toward the Cuban regime.

At an

occasion,

she suggested to Gonzalez, that once he arrived in

Spain, to contact Robeno

"El Mago"

in Barcelona, and to join

months. prior to

her departure

him in working for the claiwo or three times a week, an office.

from Cuba Peyrot visited;

of an alleged Brazilian dentist, that was located in a building

in Iront of El Hutel Capri, 21st Street, Havana. Source never

met the Brazilian dentist.

In November 1968, Peyrot supposed

to have left Cuba for Uruguay via Mexico.

Source, and other

unidentified friends, who went to the airport to say good-by

to Peyrot the day she left Cuba, did not see her, taking the

Mexico airplane flight, though the passengers were easily

distinguished when they were entering the airplane.

Shortly

after Peyrot left Cuba (date unknown), Gonzalez divorced her

on the grounds of default.

(Field Comment:

Source had a

difficult time

remembering the dates in reference to his

personal history.

He seemed to be anxious to cooperate,

and

said that he was going to write to his present wife

(now in

the U.S.), and ask her to send him a copy of his divorce papers,

in order

to confirm some of the dates which he was not sure of.

It is interesting to note that a Myrta TEIJEIRO, an Uruguayan

doctor was mentioned by

Julio RIVAS Delgado (see Memorandum for

the Record to CAS, Madrid, dated 20 November 1968, paragraph 22),

where Rivas stated that she has visited the Cuban

Embassy in

Madrid at approximately the same period Mirtha PEYROT left Cuba.

Though it may be coincidental, it is probable that Mirtha Peyrot

and syrta leijeiro are the sane person.

Source did not divulge

any information on his past associations with Mirtha Peyrot in

his initial

interrogation at the Cuban Reception Office

(OFC),

because he was afraid of discussing sensitive matters with the

ORC interrogator.

He stated that he has a seven-year old son

In Cuba,

and is afraid that the Cuban authorities may take

repraisals by not letting his son exit Cuba if they, the Cuban

authorities, would find out that he has brought the

subject of

Peyrot to the attention of the Cuban inturrogator at the ORC.

Source stated that ho is willing to cooperate In any way possible

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with the U.S. Intelligence services should his services be

required.)

2.

Gonzaloz providod the following partial biographical

data of Major Victor DREKE CruZ:

Major Victor DREKE Cruz was born into a poor negro

family in Sagua La Grande, Las

Villas, Cuba, in 1938 or

1939.

In 1957, he joined

the 13th of March Movement, and

became one of the personal aides of former Major Rolando

CUBELA Secades:

Upon the overthrow of Batista. in January

1959, he returned to live with his family in Sagua La

Grande.

In 1960, Cubela convinced Dreke to join the

Cuban Revolutionary Army (FAR). Dreke joined the FAR

with the rank of Captain, and was assigned commander of

a unit located near the city of Cienfuegos.

Dreke led

an Army unit against counterrevolutionaries.in the

Escambray in 1961.

In 1963, he was appointed Chief of

Guerrilla Warefare of the FAR general Staff. As of May

1969,

he was Chief of the Political Committee of the

FAR General Staff (Source Comment: He obtained the

information from Captain Julio MARTI, an acquaintance,

in a conversation that took place when Source and Marti

casually met on a bus in Havana in May 1969:

Marti also

told Gonzalez that Major Julio GARCIA Oliveras who was

the Cuban Ambassador to North Viet-Nam) was the second

In command of the Political Committee.

Narti also. stated

that he,

himselt, was a member of the committee.) Dreke

is considered a Fidelista rather than a Communist. He

Is intelligent and very brave.

He was described as

Negro, 5'5"

tall, 125 pounds,

siender build, black kinky

hair, abnormal large head.

He is living with his wife

(name unknown), and two daughters at Alturas del Nuevo

Vedado, near the: Havana Zoologic. Park, Havana.

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