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Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection

¿ETIONAL FORM NO.

LY 1477 EDITION

Act of 1992 144 USC 2107 Notel.

CSÃ' FPMP, 141 CFRI.101

UNITED STATES GOVERNEaSe#:NU 54464 Date: 10-11-2017

Memorandum

109

AMAS NO OBJECTION TO

ECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,

¿LEASE DE CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. RODrOCKA

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI

SECRE

FROM

LEGAT, CARACAS (64-2) (P)

DATE:

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINEO

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPI

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.

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SUBJECT:

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#RENE JESUS CASTILLEJO COVA

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Approximately two months ago, subject was offered the

position of Security Investigator by Mr. SIDNEY T. TELFORD, Regional

Security Officer (RSO), American Embassy, Caracas, Venezuela.

position involves conducting background investigations of local-hire

employees for the U. S. Embassy and other duties.

Subject currently resides in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles,

where he is under contract with the Netherlands Antilles Government

as Director of Training for the Netherlands Antilles Police Force

(NAPF), which position he has held for the past two years.

His

job with the American Embassy, Caracas, was to begin at the termina-

tion of his current contract

with NAPF.

When personally contacted by Mr. TELFORD in Curacao

approximately three weeks ago, subject stated he was looking forward

to his job at the American Embassy, and would report for duty in a.

few days. He did not report, and all efforts by the RSO and others

to contact him have been futile.

It should be noted that attempts

to contact his wife have also met with negative results.

Mr. RICHARD MARTINEZ, Narcotics Coordinator, Agency for

International Development (AID), American Embassy, Caracas, who has

and worked with subject for eleven years, states the apparent.

disappearance to be completely out of character for CASTILLEJO, and,

strongly suspects the possiblity of foul play.

Both MARTINEZ and

TELFORD point out that in Curacao subject was in contact with

level government officials, including the Minister of Interior and

the Minister of Justice,

and could have become privy to information

concerning illicit activities by these individuals; noting that

their approval is needed to establish gambling casinos, obtain.

licenses to manage casinos, and

to own Bepperate hotels in the

Netherlands Antilles.

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floating hotel-casino.off the island of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles,

negotiating to purchase

92-T0). RSO, Mr. MARTINEZ, and Legat suspect the floating casino

and the hotel may well be schemes to launder LCN money through the

Netherlands Antilles.

On the last attempt to contact subject and his wife, RSO

and MARTINEZ were told by NAPF authorities that the minister of

justice considered subject's contract to be indefinite, and further,

that no attempt to contact subject should be made in the future,

and refused to state where subject was currently located. Attempts

to contact subject through his family in Caracas have been negative.

It appears unlikely that Netherlands Antilles authorities

would have placed subject in isolation merely in order to prevent

him from accepting a position with the U. S. Embassy in Caracas.

However, because of subject's high-level contacts in government

circles in the Netherlands Antilles, he could possibly have come

into possession of information concerning corruption or political

intrigue that would make it advisable forthem to keep him in

Curacao if at all possible.

Both RSO and Mr. MARTINEZ strongly feel that subject's

disappearance is directly connected with his intention to take a

position with the U. S. Embassy at Caracas.

_CIA, Caracas,

the political scene in

Ustated they have no information concerning

the Netherlands

Antilles that might involve

subject, and suggested that CIA, Miami

nich handles the Netherlands

Antilles, be contacted in this regard

Venezuela

Subject is described as follows

Name :

Race:

Sex,:

Date of Birth:

Height:

Weight:

Hair:

Eyes:

Complexion:

RENE JESUS CASTILLES ON

White

Male

January 1,

1931

Aruba, Nether lands

Antilles

5'6"

160 lbs$

Black (balding)

Dark.

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He is a dual national (Netherlands Antilles - Venezuela),

and holds

Venezuelan Passport and National Identification Card No.

1875070.

The Bureau is requested to authorize the following leads

matter of cooperation with the RSO, U. S. Embassy, Caracas:

MIAMI

1. Be alert for any information from LCN sources that may

possibly bear on subject's disappearance, including problems in

LIcensing Iloating hotel-casino, or any information

indicating LCN

payoris to high Netherlands Antilles

Government officials.

2.

may have concerning subject and his activities in the Netherlands

Antilles. AB

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