Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MCATEER, CHARLES F. JR.
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 04/27/1945
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/17/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10292-10308

HQ

64-29479-5

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note) .

Case#:NW 54462 Date:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

MCATEER, CHARLES F. JR.

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 04/27/1945

PAGES:

11

SUBJECTS :

MTP, BKG, REL, EMP, TRA, RES, POLIT ACT, ASSOC,

MEMBER, CP

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 06/26/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

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This Case Originated at HABANA, CUBA

Report Made At

Date When

Made

HABANA, CUBA

4-27-45

Title

SECALL

File No. 100-45

Period for Which Made

Report Made By

12-12, 18-44;1-31;

mae

2-1,6;4-19-45

CHARLES F. MCATHER, JR.

Character of Case

MARIA TERESA PROENZA (Y PROENZA)

aka TERESA PROENZA

SECURITY MATTER - C & R

Classied

eclassify

*I INFORMAFTON CONTATNE

HEREIN IS LNCALEGIETDD BACERE

WHERE SHOWS CORES

Information concerning activities of TERESA PROENZA

Synopsis of Facts: and her family reflect many of them have been active

revolutionaries for a number of years.

Reliable

ources disagree.on whether subject is member o

Communist Party but all advise she has in the past Le u

been in contact With members of the Russian Legation

Diplomatic Mission In Habana.

However, since de-

parture of Mrs. NORA P. CHEGODAEVA, Russian Press

Attaché, her contacts at Legation have ceased, but

she still continues contact with prominent members

of she Communist Party.

Subject, by letter dated

12-19-44, resigned her position with OVERSEAS NEWS

AGENCY and presently represents several Mexican

magazines in Cuba.

Reference.

Present activities reported

not suspicious.

STATUS:

DECLASSIER 8Y 5U68 SLD./KSK

on ll = 95-97

.. (JEK)

REFERENCE: Report of Special Agent CHARLES F. MCATEER,

Jr.

75

CC TONS - Lund

REQ. REC'D.

11/15/61

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Forwarded:

Made Available

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SENTEN

ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS

The files in the Military and Naval Attachés?

offices as well as the Embassy Central Files Section at

Habana failed to reflect any pertinent information on

, since the Russian Press Attache

the Legation have ceased. Another basis for closing the

case is the fact that she is no longer active in the affairs

of the OVERSEAS NEWS AGENCY and reliable sources disagree

Party.

*Confidential Informant #656-1 points out in his

report that the police accused subject's brother of dis-

seminating seditious propaganda of

a Communist type and that

other members of her family were arrested at different times.

It should be borne in mind that the modus operandi of the

MACHADO police in arresting revolutionists and members of

groups in opposition to him was to accuse them of having

disseminated Communist propaganda which could be used as a

legal basis to incarcerate them or exile them from the

country as the Communist Party was operating illegally at

the time. This same modus operandi was used by the MACHADO

Regime to arrest many members of the opposition group who

are now and always bave been violently opposed to Communism.

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RE:

Apr 11

-200 1945

MARIA TERESA PROENZA (Y PROENZA)

al sonknown as TERESA, PROENZA

Habana, Cuba

DA

Source Conwho is considered to be reliable, advised

that TERESA PROENZA 19 a nativo Cuban about 38 years of ego

and unmartled. She has & brother and sister living in Mexico

and she herself was employed in that country working for the

Mexican Government in an unknown capacity in 1933 or 19340

She returned to Habana from Mexico in 1939 and after residing

in Cuba for some time made several trips back and forth bo-

tween these two countries.

Subject formerly lived on Calle 27 #155 in Vedado

in a boarding house but at present, she is residing at 6s

Calle Carcel (also known as Capdevila, between rado eng

venios edado, Habana, cuba. One of her brothers. Justo, PROENZA,

is connected with the Cuban diplomatic corps and is prosontly

a Cuben Vice Consul in the Dominican Republic. Prior to that

time he was Cuban Consul in Java, It is said that JUSTO PROENZA

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speaks. Javanese well and knows the customs of that country.

Source D, who is also considered reliable, learned

from a former co-worker of TERESA PROENZA that during the

presidency of MACHADO in Cuba sho and her sister were pros

minent in student activities at the University of Habana

which were considered to be against the Mach po regime. whey

wore also activoly engaged in the aissemination of Communist

propaganda as well.

In 1963, at which timo rovolationary

activitios were at a peak, tho two sisters vere forced to take

refuge in Mexico because of threats of prosecution made by

MACHADO!S henchmen.

Before they vere ablo to loave Cube, sub-

Jects sister recoived a package through the mail which con

tained a bomb and upon opening the package, the bemb exploded

and her eyesight was saved only by a delicate surgical operation.

In Mexico subject became connected with the ovErstas

NEWS AGENCY and after several years thero, became one or ita

traveling representatives. She represented the OVERstAs is

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IDENTIFICATION OF SOURCES:

The sources mentioned in the report of Special

Agent CHARLES F. MCATEER, Jro, dated April 27, 1945,

at

Habana, Cuba,

entitled "MARIA TERESA PROENZA (Y PROENZA),

aka, SECURITY MATTER - C & R", are listed below:

Source C:

Confidential Informant #656-4

Source D:

/Confidential Informant #656-5

• Source E:

contidentIal InFormant $347-5

Source F:

/Confidential Informant #360-2

Source G:

Confidential Informant #656-1

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