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[120]WARNING: INFORMATION REPORT, NOT FINALLY EVALUATED INTELLIGENCE
[121]REPORT CLASS S E C R E T--WNINTEL--NOFORN
[123]DIST: 18 JANUARY 1996
[125]COUNTRY: CUBA
[127]SUBJ: SUSPECTED CUBAN SECURITY PENETRATIONS OF THE CUBAN HUMAN
[128]RIGHTS/DISSIDENT MOVEMENT IN CUBA
[130]DOT: 1992 - MID AUGUST 1995.
[132]SOURCE: CUB-04298 IS A MID-LEVEL TECHNICIAN WHO HAD EXTENSIVE
[133]CONTACT WITH DISSIDENT GROUPS IN CUBA. UNLESS OTHERWISE
[134]NOTED, INFORMATION REPORTED IS FROM DIRECT OBSERVATION
[135]OR GOOD SECONDARY SOURCES. SOURCE DID NOT REPORT A
[136]SECURITY CLEARANCE.
[138]SUMMARY: LEADERS OF THE CUBAN CIVIC CURRENT (CORRIENTE CIVICA
[140]* CUBANA), A DISSIDENT GROUP IN CUBA, SUSPECTED THREE MEMBERS OF THE
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[148]GROUP, AND THE FORMER HUSBAND OF A GROUP MEMBER, OF BEING CUBAN
[149]SECURITY SOURCES OR PENETRATIONS. THE LEADERS OF THE DISSIDENT
[150]CROUP.DID NOT HAVE ANY SPECIFIC EVIDENCE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS WERE
[151]CONNECTED TO CUBAN SECURITY, BUT INCIDENTS IN WHICH EACH OF THESE
[152]INDIVIDUALS WERE INVOLVED LED THE LEADERSHIP TO BECOME SUSPICIOUS
[153]OF THEM.
[155]TEXT: 1. AS OF MID AUGUST 1995, THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CUBAN
[156]DISSIDENT GROUP, CUBAN CIVIC CURRENT (CORRIENTE CIVICA CUBANA -
[157]ccc), WAS CERTAIN THAT THE CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISSIDENT
[158]MOVEMENTS HAD ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF CUBAN SECURITY, PRIMARILY
[159]THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MININT), AND THEY BELIEVED THAT MININT
[160]WAS TRYING TO PENETRATE DISSIDENT ORGANIZATIONS. CCC MEMBERS
[161]CONCERNED OVER THE GROUP’S SECURITY TAGGED FOUR INDIVIDUALS WHO
[162]EXHIBITED BEHAVIOR OR ACTIVITIES IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS OR DISSIDENT
[163]ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUGGESTED THAT THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH
[165]MININT. THE INDIVIDUALS WERE JORGE ((GONZALES)), VLADIMIRO
[166]((ROCA)) ATUNEZ, GUILLERMO ( (FERNANDEZ) } DONATES, AND RAFAEL
[167]( (ALCIDES)) .
[169]2. THE CCC LEADERSHIP WAS VIRTUALLY CERTAIN THAT JORGE
[170]GONZALEZ, OF THE CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT (MOVIMIENTO
[171]CRISTIANO LIBERACION), HEADED BY OSVALDO ((PAYA)) SARDINAS, WAS A
[172]CUBAN SECURITY PENETRATION. DIRECTORS OF THE CCC NOTED THAT HIS
[173]QUESTIONS WERE USUALLY SO PENETRATING AS TO SUGGEST INSIDE
[174]KNOWLEDGE. A TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE ccC WAS DIRECTED AGAINST
[175]GONZALEZ, PROVIDING HIM WITH MOSTLY BOGUS INFORMATION KNOWN ONLY
[176]TO THE CCC MEMBER AND THE CCC LEADERSHIP. RECORDS OF THE DATE THE
[177]INFORMATION WAS PASSED WERE KEPT BY THE ccc. THE INFORMATION
[178]LATER SURFACED THROUGH MININT DURING THE COURSE OF MININT
[180]- INTERVIEWS OF DETAINED CCC LEADERS. THE CCC LEADERSHIP BELIEVED
[181]THAT GONZALEZ MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN VENEZUELA AS OF MID AUGUST 1995.
[183]3.  VLADIMIRO ROCA OF THE CUBAN DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST
[184]CURRENT (CORRIENTE SOCIALISTA DEMOCRATICA CUBANA), WHO IS ONE OF
[185]THE CLOSEST ASSOCIATES OF ELIZARDO ((SANCHEZ)) SANTACRUZ OF THE
[186]CUBAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
[187](COMISION CUBANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y RECONCILIACION NACIONAL) ,
[188]CAME UNDER CCC SUSPICION AFTER AN INCIDENT IN 1992. IN THAT YEAR,
[189]SHORTLY AFTER THE LETTER BY CUBAN PROFESSIONALS TO THE IBERIAN
[190]AMERICAN SUMMIT WAS PRESENTED, CCC CHIEF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
[191]VLADIMIR ((MARTINEZ-AMORES)) ALVAREZ WAS VISITED AT HIS HOME BY
[192]TWO MININT OFFICERS. THE TWO OFFICERS WERE NAMED "MARCIAL" AND
[193]"DANIEL." THE SENIOR OF THE TWO, DANIEL, REMARKED THAT ELIZARDO
[194]SANCHEZ WAS A U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENT. IN DUE COURSE THIS
[195]INFORMATION WAS PASSED BY MARTINEZ-AMORES TO SANCHEZ IN THE
[196]PRESENCE OF VLADIMIRO ROCA. AROUND DECEMBER 1992, DURING AN
[197]"INTERVIEW" BY MININT OF A CCC MEMBER, MARCIAL MADE A STATEMENT
[198]THAT INDICATED THAT HE KNEW THAT HIS INITIAL REMARKS TO
[199]MARTINEZ-AMORES ABOUT SANCHEZ HAD BEEN PASSED TO SANCHEZ. WHEN IT
[200]WAS REPORTED TO SANCHEZ THAT MININT HAD MADE THIS STATEMENT, HE
[201]ATTRIBUTED IT TO TECHNICAL COVERAGE IN HIS HOME ASSOCIATED WITH AN
[202]LP OPPOSITE HIS HOME. THE CCC WAS NOT CONVINCED BY THIS
[203]EXPLANATION AND THEREAFTER KEPT ROCA AT A DISTANCE, AS THEY
[204]ASSUMED THAT IT WAS ROCA WHO HAD PASSED THE INFORMATION TO THE
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[213]MININT. (SOURCE COMMENT: ONLY ROCA, SANCHEZ AND MARTINEZ-AMORES
[214]KNEW THAT. SANCHEZ HAD BEEN TOLD, AND BOTH SANCHEZ AND .
[215]MARTINEZ-AMORES WERE TRUSTED MEMBERS OF THE CCC.)
[217]4. CCC’S SUSPICIONS CONCERNING ROCA HAVE GROWN STRONGER IN
[218]LIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING INCIDENTS:
[220]A. CCC MEMBER FELIX ((DIAZ)) WAS DENIED A REQUEST FOR
[221]A VISA TO THE U.S. BY THE U.S. INTERESTS SECTION. THE REPORTED
[222]GROUNDS FOR DENIAL WERE THAT DIAZ HAD NOT SUBMITTED SUFFICIENT
[223]EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY THE VISA. ROCA WAS HEARD TO TELL DIAZ THAT
[224]HIS.REQUEST HAD BEEN UNDERMINED BY FELIX ((BONNE)) CARCASSES, THE
[225]CCC LEADER. BONNE DENIED THIS ACTION, SAYING THAT HE WOULD HAVE
[226]HAD NO INTEREST IN UNDERMINING DIAZ.
[228]B. IN EARLY 1993, JORGE GONZALEZ, A CLOSE FRIEND OF
[229]ROCA, INFORMED THE CCC LEADERSHIP THAT AN AUTHORESS, IDENTIFIED AS
[230]MARIANA ((BADELL)) (PHONETIC), WAS PREPARING A BIOGRAPHY OF CUBAN
[231]PRESIDENT FIDEL ((CASTRO)) AND WANTED TO MEET BONNE. THE REASON
[232]FOR SUCH A MEETING IN CONNECTION WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF CASTRO WAS
[233]NOT CLEAR, BUT THE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN GONZALEZ’ HOME, AND
[234]INCLUDED BADELL, BONNE, AND MARTINEZ-AMORES. THE CCC LEADERS
[235]NOTED THAT BADELL APPEARED TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE DURING THE COURSE
[236]OF THE MEETING. SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD HAD LUNCH WITH AN
[237]OFFICIAL OF THE SPANISH EMBASSY IN HAVANA, WHO WAS ASSISTING HER
[238]WITH THE BIOGRAPHY OF CASTRO BY PUTTING HER IN TOUCH WITH ONE
[239]CARLOS’ ALBERTO ((MONTANER)) IN MADRID, WHO WOULD EDIT THE BOOK.
[240]SHE DECLINED TO IDENTIFY THE SPANISH OFFICAL, BUT DESCRIBED HIM IN
[241]SUCH DETAIL THAT BOTH BONNE AND MARTINEZ-AMORES RECOGNIZED HIM AS
[242]JORGE ((DE ORUETA)), A LONG-TIME CONTACT OF THE CCC. WHEN THE
[243]CONVERSATION WAS RELAYED TO DE ORUETA BY THE CCC, HE RECALLED
[244]BADELL HAD- BEEN INTRODUCED TO HIM BY VLADIMIRO ROCA’S WIFE. HE
[245]FURTHER RECALLED THE LUNCH AND MENTION OF THE BOOK, BUT DECLARED
[246]THE MONTANER INFORMATION TO BE SPURIOUS. THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
[247]SUGGESTED TO CCC SECURITY PERSONNEL THAT THERE WAS COORDINATION
[248]AMONG INDIVIDUALS SUSPECTED OF BEING DIRECTED BY CUBAN SECURITY.
[250]c. IN 1993 A GROUP OF DISSIDENTS, INCLUDING BONNE, WAS
[251]INVITED TO THE HOME OF PIOTR ((MIKISKA)) (PHONETIC), FIRST
[252]SECRETARY AT THE CZECH EMBASSY, TO ATTEND A VISIT FROM THE CZECH
[253]VICE CHANCELLOR. (SOURCE COMMENT: THIS KIND OF CONTACT WAS
[254]ANATHEMA TO THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT.) THE CZECH INVITATION TO BONNE
[255]WAS SENT THREE DAYS IN ADVANCE BY WORD OF MOUTH VIA ROCA. BY
[256]COINCIDENCE, ANOTHER CCC REPRESENTATIVE VISITING MIKISKA WITHIN A
[257]DAY OR TWO OF WHEN THE INVITATION WAS RELAYED TO ROCA WAS ASKED
[258]ABOUT THE INVITATION TO BONNE, AS BONNE HAD NOT RESPONDED TO THE
[259]CZECH EMBASSY. THE CCC REPRESENTATIVE INCLUDED THE QUERY
[260]REGARDING THE INVITATION IN HIS REPORT OF THE MEETING TO THE CCC,
[261]GIVING BONNE HIS FIRST NOTIFICATION THAT THERE HAD EVEN BEEN AN
[262]INVITATION. ROCA FINALLY PASSED THE MESSAGE TO THE HOME OF
[263]GEORGINA DE LAS MERCEDES ( (GONZALEZ) ) CORBO, ONE OF BONNE’S CHIEF
[264]ASSISTANTS, TWO HOURS PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE FUNCTION.
[266]D. IN MID 1995, REINALDO (({ROQUE)) MALHERBE OF CCC
[268]REPORTED THAT VLADIMIRO ROCA‘S WIFE WAS UNDERMINING ELTZARDO
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[276]SANCHEZ BY PASSING AROUND STORIES THAT HE HAD BEEN WITHHOLDING
[277]ORGANIZATIONAL FUNDS, INTENDED’ FOR THE SOCIALIST CURRENT, FOR HIS
[278]PERSONAL USE. (SOURCE COMMENT: THIS RUMOR CAMPAIGN MAY HAVE
[279]*CONTRIBUTED TO SANCHEZ’ REPORTED RESIGNATION FROM THE<EXECUTIVE>
[280]COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST CURRENT. }
[282]E. REPORTING ON RADIO MARTI FROM MIAMI AROUND MID 1995
[284]ALLEGEDLY REFERRED TO VLADIMIRO ROCA AS AN AGENT OF CUBAN STATE
[285]SECURITY. ROCA HIMSELF WAS REPORTED IN CUBAN DISSIDENT CIRCLES TO
[286]HAVE STATED THAT HE WAS A LONG-TIME FRIEND OF MAJOR GENERAL FABIAN
[287]((ESCALANTE)) FONT, WHO WAS REPORTEDLY THE CHIEF OF THE MININT .
[288]DIRECTORATE OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (DCT) . (HEADQUARTERS COMMENT:
[289]ESCALANTE FONT NOW HEADS THE MINISTRY'S HISTORY. COMMISSION AND IS
[290]*KNOWN FOR HIS INQUIRIES INTO THE PRESIDENT<JOHN>F . <KENNEDY>
[291]ASSASSINATION, THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION, AND THE CUBAN MISSTLE
[292]CRISIS.)
[294]5, GUILLERMO FERNANDEZ DONATES IS A CIVIL ENGINEER WHO. WAS
[295]CLOSE TO GUSTAVO ((ARCOS)) BERGNES OF THE CUBAN COMMITTEE FOR
[296]HUMAN RIGHTS (COMITE CUBANO PRO DERECHOS HUMANOS). HE WAS
[297]SUSPECTED OF BEING A MININT SOURCE AND A PROVOCATEUR BY THE CCC
[298]LEADERSHIP. HE JOINED THE CCC ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF ARCOS
[299]BECAUSE FERNANDEZ WAS A MEMBER OF THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS. (SOURCE
[300]COMMENT: MANY MEMBERS OF THE CCC ARE PROFESSIONALS.) THE CCC
[301]INITIALLY BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF FERNANDEZ BECAUSE HE HAD A HISTORY
[302]OF ARRESTS IN WHICH HE WOULD BE PLACED WITH VARIOUS GROUPS OF
[303]POLITICAL PRISONERS. IN PRISON HE WOULD EVENTUALLY HAVE A FIGHT
[304]WITH A GUARD OR COMMIT AN INFRACTION OF REGULATIONS AND BE REMOVED
[305]BY THE AUTHORITIES FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION. EACH TIME HE EMERGED
[306]FROM PRISON HE SEEMED TO BE IN EXCELLENT HEALTH AND WELL FED.
[308]6. ADDITIONALLY, SEVERAL OTHER ANOMALIES HAVE CAUSED THE
[309]CCC LEADERSHIP TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF FERNANDEZ:
[311]A. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, FERNANDEZ HAS BEEN ASKED BY
[312]THE CCC TO COMMUNICATE ITEMS OF MUTUAL INTEREST TO ARCOS.
[313]SUBSEQUENT ELICITATION OF ARCOS. BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CCC LED
[314]THEM TO BELIEVE THAT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY FERNANDEZ TO ARCOS
[315]WAS OFTEN GROSSLY INACCURATE. WHEN APPRISED OF THIS SITUATION,
[316]ARCOS DISMISSED CCC COMMENTS AS BEING SIMPLE MISUNDERSTANDINGS .
[318]B. IT HAS BEEN NOTED BY THE CCC LEADERSHIP THAT
[319]FERNANDEZ WAS FRIENDLY WITH JORGE GONZALEZ AND WITH VLADIMIRO
[320]ROCA. FERNANDEZ WAS PRIVY TO THE ACTIVITIES PLANNED BY SOCIALIST .
[321]CURRENT, THE GROUP TO WHICH ROCA BELONGED, BY HIS ASSOCIATION WITH
[322]ROCA. REINALDO ROQUE, A MEMBER OF THE CCC, WHO WORKED WITH
[323]SOCIALIST CURRENT, NOTED THAT WHEN THE GROUP WAS SCHEDULED TO
[324]MEET, IT WAS CHALLENGED BY CUBAN AUTHORITIES SO OFTEN THAT THE
[325]AUTHORITIES MUST HAVE BEEN APPRISED OF ITS SCHEDULE. EITHER
[326]FERNANDEZ OR ROCA (OR BOTH) COULD HAVE BEEN PASSING SUCH
[327]INFORMATION TO THE AUTHORITIES.
[329]C. ON ONE OCCASION, TO THE SURPRISE OF THE CCC,
[330]FERNANDEZ, A KARATE PRACTITIONER, INVITED THE ENTIRE CCC
[331]MEMBERSHIP TO GO TO THE CIUDAD DEPORTIVA (SPORTS CITY) TO AN
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[338]EXERCISE FIELD TO WORK OUT. CCC SECURITY PERSONNEL NOTED THAT
[339]THIS WOULD HAVE ASSEMBLED ALL OR MOST OF THE CCC MEMBERSHIP IN
[340]HAVANA IN AN OPEN AREA WHERE IT COULD BE OBSERVED AND
[341]PHOTOGRAPHED. THE INVITATION, COMING AS IT DID AS A ONE-TIME
[342]OPPORTUNITY WITH NO PRECEDENT, FUELED SUSPICIONS WITHIN THE CCC
[343]AND THE INVITATION WAS DECLINED.
[345]7. A SERIES OF EVENTS INVOLVING RAFAEL ALCIDES, A NOTED
[346]CUBAN POET AND FIRST HUSBAND OF TERESA ((FERNANDEZ)) MARDONES (A
[347]MEMBER OF THE CCC), WAS SIGNIFICANT TO THE CCC BECAUSE IT CALLED
[348]INTO QUESTION WHERE ALCIDES’ LOYALTIES LAY. ALCIDES AND FERNANDEZ
[349]HAD ONE CHILD, A SON, TOGETHER BEFORE THEY WERE DIVORCED AROUND
[350]LATE 1993. FERNANDEZ HAD REMARRIED AND WAS LIVING WITH RONALDO
[351]((ROQUE)) (COUSIN OF REINALDO ROQUE), AND ALCIDES WAS SPENDING
[352]CONSIDERABLE TIME AT THE ROQUE RESIDENCE, PRESUMABLY TO BE WITH
[353]HIS SON. THE CCC BECAME CONCERNED WITH THE SECURITY OF THE
[354]SITUATION AS FERNANDEZ WAS PRIVY TO CCC INFORMATION AND WAS
[355]ASSESSED AS BEING EMOTIONAL AND TENDING TO CONFIDE TOO MUCH.
[356]MARTINEZ-AMORES WAS DISPATCHED BY THE CCC TO FEEL OUT ALCIDES, AND
[357]REPORTED THAT HE SPOKE COHERENTLY AND LOGICALLY AGAINST THE
[358]CURRENT REGIME. MARTINEZ-AMORES APPEARED TO BE REASSURED.
[359]SUBSEQUENTLY HOWEVER, IN CONVERSATION WITH ALCIDES, REINALDO ROQUE
[360]LEARNED THAT ALCIDES WAS PART OF A DELEGATION OF THE CUBAN
[361]NATIONAL UNION OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS (UNION NACIONAL DE
[362]ESCRITORES Y ARTISTAS DE CUBA - UNEAC) THAT VISITED MADRID
[363]SOMETIME AROUND 1994. WHILE THERE, ALCIDES SAID THAT HE WAS
[364]INVITED WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER UNEAC DELEGATES TO LUNCH WITH
[365]CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER. (SOURCE COMMENT: THE LUNCHEON WITH
[366]MONTANER MUST CERTAINLY HAVE RECEIVED CUBAN GOVERNMENT APPROVAL,
[367]AND THE GROUP MUST HAVE INCLUDED CUBAN SECURITY PERSONNEL. )
[368]ALCIDES TOLD ROQUE THAT ON HIS RETURN TO CUBA, HE ATTENDED THE
[369]FUNERAL FOR A SISTER (NFI) OF FIDEL CASTRO AND DELIVERED THE
[370]FUNERAL ORATION. FOLLOWING THE FUNERAL, HE WAS OBSERVED TO BE
[371]EMBRACED BY MINISTER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES GENERAL
[372]RAUL ((CASTRO)) RUZ.
[374]Ppoc: ECC, HOWARD, SECURE X-43770, STU IIT (703) 506 7687.
[375]ACQ: (LATE OCTOBER 1995)
[377]DISSEM: FIELD: SENT TO; USCINCSO, USCINCACOM, AIC, USCINCTRANS,
[378]uscINcsoc, JSOc.
[380]WARNING: REPORT CLASS S E C R E T--WARNING NOTICE - - INTELLIGENCE
[381]SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLVED--NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS.
[383]DECL: Xl CL REASON 1.5(C) DRV FROM HUM-4 BY RECORDED REPORTING
[384]OFFICER. ALL PORTIONS CARRY CLASSIFICATION AND CONTROLS OF
[385]OVERALL DOCUMENT.
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