INFORMATION REPORT: OSCAR CONCEPCION MENDOZA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/16/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SUBJECT OSCAr CONCEPCION Mendoza

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REFERENCES

CSCI-3/779,352

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE ORADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE

SOURCE, A former Cuban IS Officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

•Sorvice until April 1964.

Headguarters Comments

The following report is one of a sertes containing personality

information provided by the source and includes supplemental

information

from the records of this Agency.

It 18 requested that the addressees take no action on any of

the

individuals montioned in the personality reports without

first checking with thie Agency.

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oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza, nickname or pseudonym "Ricardo

"Conchito," is the Cuban Commercial Attache at. the

Cuban Embassy in Mexico.

He is a member of the Direccion General

de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI) and 1E

the cutout for Venezuelan groups. Source saw him in Mexico in

March 1964.

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being live feet eight inches tall, 150

with a widows peat, light brown eyes, a tht,2,g,4,5,d,ghlte

comploxion, and a round, clean shaven face.

Headquarters Comments

1. The Subject of this Agency's above referenced report, (fnu)

was later identifled in a photograph by the

source of that report as Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza.

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An untested source, in a report dated 1 March 1961, identifiod

Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza, as a sub-lieutenant in the Intelligence

Department, G-2, of the Cuban Ministry of the Armed Forces

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3.

I report dated 17 June 1963, stated that Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza

had been appointed Commerçial Attache to the Cuban Embasgy in Mexico

Cats, replacing Benigno CASTELLAR Sanchez.

The following information was received by a member of a group of

Cuban emigres trained

in the technique. of

information collection.and

who laye provided useful reports for two years, from an untested

source concerning

information on Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza." The

report was dated 4 November 1963.

CONCEPCION was born in Clego de: Ayalaa

Cuba, about 1933. He is white, flve feet eight inches: tail.

150 pounds, and has brown hair.. ic was a member of the 26th

of July. Movement during the fight against the Batista regime.

CONCEPCION arrived in the city of Camaguey shortly after the

Hubert MATOS incident ir 1959 and began 'employment as a member

of the Cuban Intelligence Service, then called "G-2".

According

to rumors, he has taken

courses in political and revolutionary

instruction, and is a militant member of the Communist Party.

He has participated in almost all of the revolutionary trials

in Camaguey, and also the execution of "Billy" PATTEN in March

1961.

He participated in the wholesale arrest of persons at the

time of the Giron invasion, and arrested a few thousand

Camagueyans who were belleved to be anti-Communist or opponents

of the regine. CONCEPCION and Eliseo ALTUNAGA, also a member

committed thefts in the city of Camaguey amounting

is the st 2,000,000 pesos and for this reason CONCEPCION was

transferred to Oriente Province.

While in Canaguey he was

Chief of Opcrations of the State Security Department.

5. A usually reliable source, in a report dated 7 January 1964, said

18 December 1963, one "Augusto" was at the gate of the Cuban

Embassy in Mexico City to see Oscar CONCEPCION.

"Augusto" has long

been in secmingly clandestine contact with CONCEPCIOY and "Augusto"

also appears to

be engaged in assisting unspecifled people, sometimes

Venezuelans, to travel to Cuba.

ô. A usually reliable source reported that Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza

arrived

in Mexico City from Habana

on 16 January 1964.

He carried

uoan Diplomatic passport number D/63/403.

. An lorrica adriest revealed that Oscar CONCEPCION Mendoza arrived

in Mexico City from Habana on 21 April 1964.

On 11 May 1964, he

arrived in Mexico City from Habana, with his wife, Marta CABALLERO

Carder, and two children, Marta CONCEPCION Caballero and Teresa

COYCEPCION Caballero.

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