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SUNECT JUlian NOVAS Fernandez

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DATE OISTR 27 August 1964

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MIS IS UNEVALUATED INPORMATIOM SOLTER ORADINOS ARE DEFINITIVE.

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SOURCEI

A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until April 1961.

Headquarters Comments

The following report is one of a sordes containing personality

information provided by the source and includes supplemental

Information from the records of this Agency.

It is requosted that tho addressees take no action

on any of

the individunls mentloned in the personality reports without

first checking with this Agency.

Source was shown a photograph of Jullan NOVAS Fernandez

and source identified him as a Cuban Pintelligence Officer.

Source saw NOVAS at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico Clif, 2, 3, 4, 5,

Warch 1964 and assuzed he was a functionary there.

Headquartors Comments

1. Although source saw Jullan NOVAS Fernandez at the Cuban

Enbassy in Mexico City in March 1964, the records of this

Agency revenl that source was probably in error in

assuming that NOdS was assigned to that Embassy and

it is moro likelj that he was just passing through.

The following traces by this Agency is the basis for

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An official Janican source,

in a report dated 24 March 1964,

stated that Julian YOVAS Fernandez arrived in Kingston,

Jamaica, on 18 Narch 1964, to tako up his duties at the

Cuban Consulate in Kingston ay Conmercial Attache: Source

sald that NOVAS has the appearance of an Amerdean and

speaks excellen: English.

Since his arrival he has been

espetially occupied with girls.

It should be noted that

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his wife did not accompany him and source speculated that her

arrival may

te delayed in view of NOVAS' present inclination for

feminine diversion.

In a report dated

March 1964, this same source said that

Julian NOTiS Fernandez, the Cuban Commercial Attache at the

uban Consulate in Kingston, Jamalca, was born on 2 September 1938

ln Habana, Cuba.

le carried diplomatie passport D/64/90 whicl

was issued in Habana on 20 February 196%. His home address was

given as Caraan No. 18,

Vibora.

. He arrived in Kingston

from

Mexico on 18 March 1964, on Mexicana Flight Number 305.

This same source, in a report dated 28 April 1961, stated that

the wife of Julian NOVAS Fernandez, the recently arrived Cuban

Commercial Attacho, arrived in Kingston on 22 April 1964,

via Mexico. Her name 1s Amarilis Marta VALDES Hijuelos and

she was born on 19 May 1937, in Jiquani, Oriente, Cuba.

VALDES

has been indisposed since her ariival in Kingston; this is

probably due to her advanced pregnancy. Her home address là

Cuba is Arenida 31, Number 3622, Habana. She carried diplomatic

passport D/61/239, Issued in Habana on 9 April 1964.

This same source, in a report dated 9 May 196%, noted that

the salary and allowances of the new Cuban Commercial Attache,

Julian NOVAS Fernandez,

suggests that he is the new Cuban

Intelligence Service chief in Jamaica, succeeding Gerardo

SANCHEZ Robert.

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