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[20]COUNTRY Cuba REPORT NO. CSc t-316/01228-64
[21]SUBIECT Fernando FUENTES Coba DATE DISTR. 2 October 1964 ps
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[33]DATE ACQOctober 1964
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[36]THIS IS UNEVALUATED IHFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE,
[38]SOURCE A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence
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[46]Service until Apral 1964,
[47]Headquartors Comments
[49]The following report is one of a series containing personality
[50]information provided by the source and includes supplemental
[51]information from the records of this Agency.
[53]It is requested that the addressees take no action on any
[54]of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without
[56]first checking with this Agency.
[58]Fernando FUENTES Coba was a lieutenant in the Cuban Police
[59]Force and worked in the Confidential Department under Commander
[61]-Efigenio ALMEJEIRAS,, Chief of Police. Although source cannot
[63]verify it, he heard that FUENTES was discharged from the police
[64]force because of problems relating to drugs. The last source
[65]heard of FUENTES, ne was working 1n a printing establishment
[67]in Halifax, Canada, Source described FUENTES as being about
[68]five feet cight inches tall and 160 pounds.!,2, 24,5,6,7
[70]Headquarters Comments
[72]1. Ineluded with a report dated 27 November 1959, was a
[73]complete tist of the personnel employed by the Departamento
[74]Tecnico de Investigacioncs (Technical Department of Investi-
[75]gations - DTI) as of 6 November 1959. Included on the list,
[76]was one Sargeant Fernando FUENTES Cobas who worked in
[77]Bureau "A," the section responsible for foreign intelligence
[78]operations for the Pulicia Nacional Revolucionaria (National
[80]Revolutionary Police - PNR).
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[104]2. An untested source gave a representative of this Agency a copy of!
[105]a list of regulations issued on 15 May 1960 by the National
[106]Revolutionary Police, which came under the Ministry of the Revolu-
[107]tionary Armed Forces of Cuba, for the discipline of members of
[108]the Servicio Seercto Revolucionario (Cuban Revolutionary Secret
[109]Service - SSR). This document was signed by Fernando FUENTE Coba,
[110]Chief of the Confidential Section of the General Command of the
[112]National Revolutionary Police,
[114]3. Ina report dated 19 May 1962, an untested source, who was a guide .
[115]and interpreter for the ICAP, a Cuban government agency which mn .
[116]handied the needs of foreign visitors to Cuba, said that First
[117]Lieutenant Fernando COBAS was chief of the DTI until sometime in
[118]1960 when he started. working for the Tourist Police, a part of
[119]the PNR. In January ‘or February 1961, COBAS transferred to the
[121]Transit Police,
[123]‘4. In a report dated 20 September 1962, an untested source reported
[124]that Fernando FUENTES Covas was with the Policia Transita (Transit
[126]Police) in the DTI.
[128]5. Another office of this Agency, in a report dated 26 December 1962, . t
[129]reported that Fernando FUENTES Coba, a Cuban national, had been
[130]convicted in 1957 of violation of the United States immigration
[131]laws. FUENTES was engaged in forging birth certificates to assist
[132]Cuban nationals to enter the United States as Puerto Ricans.
[133]FUENTES moved to Miami, where he became an ardent Castrista. In
[134]July 1959, he served as a provacateur in luring an American flyer,
[135]Rafael dei PINO, to Cuba, ostehsibly to smuggle someone out of
[136]Cuba. Because of his success in luring del PINO back to Cuba,
[137]where he was badly wanted by the Castro regime, FUENTES received
[138]an important position in the Confidential Bureau of the Cuban
[139]G-2, and for a time served as chief of the Bureau.
[141]6. On 29 January 1963, a source whose reliability: cannot be determined,
[142]reported that he had seen Fernando FUENTES Coba, described as a
[143]Castro agent, debark from the SS Shirley Lykes on 25 January 1963,
[144]at Port Everglades. zy
[148]7, Anfofficialpliaison service} reported on -25 February 1963, that
[149]Ferfiando FUENTES Coba was Dorn on 21 June 1928, in Habana, Cuba. |
[150]FUENTES was a former permanent resident of the United States from
[151]1946 to 1949, and served in the United States Army. At the time of
[152]this report FUENTES was described as a photographer with the
[153]Tourist Commission in Habana, Source, in a report dated October
[154]1963, reported that FUENTES was settled in Halifax, Canada, and
[156]. had obtained temporary employment.
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