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[8]35 June 1964 . H
[10]Per hia request, 7ad Lt. Oliverio
[11]Aatoaic TOMED Vasallo wea recoatscted
[12]oa & June 64 at his place of resic-
[13]ence. He provided additional details.
[16]amd ideatif£ied Osiel GONZALEZ sad one
[17]"SoCo" as possible leads to Jose
[18]SLANUZA Gobé1.
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[26]138. Awe 1966
[28]= 1. At 1730 bours, & June 64, the » undersigned. was advised.
[29]“eG Bie residence that a itr. TOREU (Subject) had called the — ft
[30]security nupber qiven hin (351-6161) and left the mescage thet .
[32]be would Lite to tala sgnim with Paul Stroud: (the undersigned) . .
[33]anytine efter 160% hours, 6 June.
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[41]a GUBJECT: Recentact of Gliverio A, TOMEE Yasalic. (201-383206)
[42]3. Upom arriving at TOMKU's apartnent (pt. 303, 1028. .
[44]Wahler Place £3, High Poiat Apartzent House, tashington, D. C.), .
[46]18390 hours, 8 dune, TOMEU indicated ta bis two daughters be would
[48]like to have sane privacy and they snd his vite, Caridad, lest
[49]the opartucat..
[51]3. TORU apologized for not having recelled the nane ; _
[52]“Ge VAROMA” as that of Anz Gloria de VAROMA. He reiterated
[53]thet, while im hiding to escape capture by the Cuban Governsent
[54]@ubeoquent to hia infiltration, he knew only the first aanes of
[55]the pereces with whom &6 came in contact, but then added he knew
[56]Aza Gloria Ge YARONA, in whose bouse he wae hiding, because she.
[57]was the sister of Carlos de VAROMA, one of his infiltration teas |
[58]pendbers. (This Carlos de YAROMA may. be identical wits ose — - Ss
[59]Carlos Manus] de VARCM. » -201-280988; or one Carlos Arturo
[60]- ‘WAROMA Arjona, 301-253209. .
[62]on,
[64]ue 4. Om moveral cocoarioss, according to TOMED, he was seated |
[65]- et the table ia Ana's house with several other people. Cue of
[66]-. Qhese individuals, knowa to TCRMEU only as “COCO,” was described:
[67].. @@ the secretary to Jose LLAKUZA Gobel. There wag not, however,
[68]° gmp diecsussions in which TOMEU recalls LLANUZA or hie political
[69]|. Q@yupgathies boviag been discussed. Accerding te TOMEU's recol-
[70]- Jeetion 1t was "COCO" wae wae asscetated with LLAHUZA, and he
[71]Woe sot avere eof any relaticenstip betrse2 fea see LIANUBA.
[72]Althoags TORS bad na infursetion an to what sinally aappened
[73]'. -@@ Carles de VAROWA, hic iafsiltration team mate, he cucgested
[74]ebat af Carles cr Ann vere svailable they moy te eble to
[76]Sdentizy “COSC end provide date on. ‘his: p aececeability Lor
[77]evatact.
[79]8. One Caiei CONRALES, foruer- Cater ot the. Havana ire
[80]Department, woe identified by TONG am another possible lead
[82]ON ate AIR IA EINE Seeman By caNR AGN PEL APD = a RO RRS
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[97]who vould know LLANUZA. TOMKY effirned Csiel was previousl; .
[98]with MENUOYO Gutierrez in the Sécond Front of Escanhray. Osiel
[99]was under ssylum in the Brazilian habsasy (sic, Argentine
[100]_ Mabassy?), when TUMEU geined political asylum. When OGstel ‘
[101]; finally received his safe conduct from the imbassy, be sent.
[102]to Puerto Kico and, TOMEU postulates that Gaiel is now again
[103]with MENOTO in either: the United. States or. Puerto Rico,
[105]6. Two sap shota (to be returned) were provided by. .
[106]TOMA. of binself and six other individuals who were in asylus .
[107]at the seme tine. Se identified these, in the photograph in | te
[108]which Monsignor Eduardo BOZA Masvidal is seated, as, from :
[109]left to right: Manuel VILLAMANAN, Oliverio TOMEU, Nils DIAZ - .
[110](believed to be in US), Publio RUIZ (U8), Jorge Del VALLE
[111](ex?), and Guiel GONZALEZ (US or Puerto Rico?7).
[113]_ 7. Upcn completing the debriefing, Stroud and TOMEU :
[114]“exchanged tzalt talk” for a while until TOMEU finally stated
[115]that he still wished there vas comething more he could do to
[116]belp free Cuba, and asked "What do you think I should do?“
[117]Stroud replied that no person could really sake that type of
[118]@ecision for another individual, and countered by asking TOMEU
[119]ebat alternatives he had in nind, other than remaining in the
[120]VB Army as a career military officer.
[122]6. TOMEU replied that, of course, he was once an. : i
[123]agriculturalist, but that there were fer job opportunities in of
[124]which be could apply his past experience. His. sister had also ‘
[125]gaked hie if he felt he and sis family would want to. live with
[126]ber in Spain or Hexico, but he didn’t think too much of this
[127]idea, Me then atated that he had been asked by Manuel ARTIME.
[129]Ze take a job aa an instructor, Without indicating any
[131]association of even awareness of ARTIME's activitios, or of
[133]ARTIME's contact with TOXEY (as incicated in TOMEU's 201), ‘
[135]SOMEY was askod what he thought of ARTIME's proposition. :
[137]: QOMEY stated that he would no longer follow any wan as =a :
[138]individual. or as a leader, because a man's ideals, cutlosk,. i .
[140]y ead objectives. change with tine. For example, the people of
[142].- Gaba: followed Fidel because of the ideals he advocat<d. When
[144]' Fadel took ever, hia acconplishasnis gradually became qairs
[146]@asSerent from the ideals he had espoused, TOMEU continued
[148]esying he would “no longer follow a man, One could only E
[149]' @yust his idenis or an organization which followed: those f
[150]ideals, since a qood. organizetion would be loss likely of . y iP
[151]being controlled by a single man.“ When saked for an example '
[153]Gf. the type of organization he hud in mind, TOMEU replied he : “
[154]Was nost favorably inclined tovards the ideale and goals of ‘
[155]the JURE, (The JURE or JRC ie an organization crested by Po Bs
[156]Banoclo RAY. Rivero around s nucleus. of. forner 26 July Movesent. _ .
[157]leaders, See nemo and attachzent dated 45 July 1063 from. Joha an
[158]ugh Crineine, Coordinator. of Cuban A , ABA: Department i. a
[159]af. Gtate in. U's 201-283206.). : 3
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[178]| at sbouléd, perhaps, be noted here that in an inforeat
[179]exchange with Mra. Donald WEBSTER, TOMKU's supervisor at the
[180]Defense Language institute, Anacostia Rawal Annex, 4 June 64,
[182]Gra, VEBSTER volunteered the information that.
[184]“all of the other
[186]‘Brigade students here’ have told me they think very Bighly
[187]of TOMEY, and that he is very brave nan, because he and his
[188]ganily were very wealthy in Cubs and he gave at all “p to 6°
[190]into exile and fight the Castro Regize.~