SUBJECTS HAVE ADVISED THAT ARTURO CHAUMONT HAS BEEN GRANTED SIX MONTHS NON-IMIGRANT VISA TO WORK AS CHIEF BUYER FOR PERFORACIONES.
Originator: CIA
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 09/03/1971
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CHAUMONT HAS BEEN GRANTED SIX MONTH NON-

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PERFORACIONES S.A., OWNED BY AMSTRUI-8. OUR UNDER-

STANDING FROM SLOMAN IS THAT CHAUMONT WAS MEMBER OF

CRIGINAL GRANIA EXPEDITION WHO ATTEMPTED COMMIT

SUICIDE WHEN CAUGHT BY BÎTISTA FORCES.. THIS

APPARENTLY CAUSED PERMANENT DAMAGE TO HIS MIND, BUT

SUBJECT WAS KEPT ON BECAUSE OF SENSE OF LOYALTY TO HIM

ON PARI OF FIDEL AND RAUL. IF THIS CORRECI SUGGEST WE

HAVE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR PROP PLAY THAT WOULD BE

ESPECIALLY DAMAGING TO CASTRO BROTHERS: CAMSTRUI-16

REPORTS THAT RAUL CA SIR O PERSONALLY INTERVENED

TO GET CHAUMONT HIS VISA TO VISII MEXICO.)

2: REQUEST UH/MAIMI SURFACE ABOVE STORY THROUGH

ONE OF THEIR ASSETS. WE SURE THAT IT WILL BE PICKED

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UP BY INTERNATIONAL WIRE SERVICES AND THAT WE CAN THEN

ARRANGE FOR FOLLOW UP IN MEXICO WITH, HOPEFULLY, SOME

CHANCE OF INTERVIEW BY LOCAL PRESS. SUGGEST STORY

FOLLOW LINE THAT THINGS MUST BE PRETTY BAD IN CUBA

WHEN MEMBER OF GRANMA EXPEDITION WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED

SUCH LOYALTY TO FIDEL THAT HE ATTEMPIED 1J SACRIFICE

HIS LIFE FEELS HE CAN NO LONGER TOLERATE CASTRO CUBA.

ALSO SUGGEST WH/SIAMI CONSIDER BRINGING IN ROLE OF.

CHAUMONT IN ARREST AND TRIAL OF CURBELO TO INDICATE

THAT CHAUMONT NOW APPARENTLY THINKS CURBELO HAD THE

RIGHT IDEA.

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