INFORMATION REPORT- HECTOR PASCUAL GALLO PORTIELLES.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 09/16/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SOURCE A fOrmOr Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence

Service until Apr1l 1961.

Headguartors Comments

"be following report 1s one of a sordes containing personallt.

nformation. provided by tho source and includes supplementa.

Information from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addrossoes take no action on any of

the individuals mentionod in the personality reports without

Iirst checking with this Agoncy.

Source said that he had heard the name llector Pascual GALLO

source has never set Gauo.t,

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An official service in Asuncion) in a report dated 2 Decerbar

said that Hector GALLO Portielles, a Cuban Diplomat li

Asuncion, was born in Habana in 1924.

2. A report dated 27 February 1961, from a usually rellable

source,

stated that Hector Pascual GALLO Portieles had taker

over Cuban affairs In Costa Rica when the Cuban government

withdrew Ambassador Juan Jose FUXA Saens on 31 December 1980.

GALLo left Costa Rica by air on 26 January 1961 for Mexico and

on 12 February 1961; returned to Costa Rica and presented

hinsel! to the Costa Rican Foreigu Ministry as Charge d'

Affalros of the Cuban Embassy.

An untested informant told

source that GALLO and his helper, Kilfredo GONLALAL RaMICrOS,

wore leaving for Habana on 13 March 1961 and that both

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A usually rellable source, learned from a source lpside of the

uban Embaggy in San Joso that Hector GAwo Portlelea

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formerly second

secretary of that Embassy, 18 now restalag sl

¡onduras in an unofficial capacity ano

Cuban Intelligence Sorvice.

probably working for. the

This report was dated 20 July 1961.

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In a report dated 15 August 1961, 1t was roported that Hector

Pascual GALLO Portieles

presently the Cuban Charge d'Affaires

In Mexico City. ile and his wife were renting an apartment there.

5.

In a report dated 10 July 1962, a usually rollable

source said he

saw Hector Pascual GALLO Portiles in Santiago, Chile.

Socretario Adscriptö of the Cuban Embassy in La Paz, Bo'fyia. GALLO

had escorted thirty-one Bolivian studonta from La Paz to Arica to

catch. a Cuban. plane which transported them from Arica to Santiago,

Rió de Janeiro, and Habana.

6. An untested source, in a report dated 21 September 1962, trote the

following character sketch on Hector GALLO Portieles, First

secretary of the Cuban Embassy in La Paz:

GALLO, who arrived in Bollula In March 1962, gives the

impressicn of being a capable and dynanie worker, with a nervous

personality.

He is the person in chargo of giving scholarships

It is said that this job was created by Fidel CASTRO

in ansver to a roquest by the Avanzada Universitaria (University

group of the official govornment party).

He is seen frequently

at the University of la Paz and has many friends among the

GALLO does not spend much time with the cther Cuban

He is in frequent contact with the leaders of the

Communist Youth, and spends a good deal of time in the labor

and other union organizations.

He is also in contact with the

Trotskyist organizations, and makes many trips into the interior

of Bolivia which usually

do not last moro than six days. GALLO

meets the Cuban diplomatic couriers on their arrival in la paz,

and it is sald that his correspondence is sent separately from

the regular Embassy correspondenco tu Cuba. He is -the most

active of the Cuban diplorats in La Paz.

7.

according to a usually reliable source, Hector GALLO

Portieles, a Cuban Diplomat, arrived in

accompanied by his wife and

Mexico from Santiago, Chile,

three children.

On 11 March 1963, GALLO

and his family departed Mexico for llabana..

important Cozmunist in the Castro regime.

of the Foreign Service before the revolution. He is not

very intelligent. His wife is anti-Communist.

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