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[20]Country Cuba REPORT NO. CSC1-316/00699-64
[22]SUMECT Julian NOVAS Fernandes | DATE o1stR, 27 August 1964
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[36]THIS IS UNEVALUATED [INFORMATION SOUSCE ORADINGS ARE OEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT 1S TENTATIVE
[38]source: A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence
[39]Service until April 1964.
[41]Headquarters Comments
[43]The following report is one of a series containing personality
[44]information provided by the source and includes supplemental
[45]iuformation from the records of this Agency.
[47]It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of
[48]the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without
[49]first checking with this Agency .
[51]Source was shown a& photograph of Julian NOVAS Fernandez
[52]and source identified him as a Cuban fMntelligence Officer.
[53]Source saw NOVAS at the Cuban Embassy~in Mexico city ip
[54]March 1964 and assumed he was a functionary there. 4» “» 3, 4, 5,
[56]Headquarters Comments
[58]1. Although source saw Julian NOVAS Fernandez at the Cuban
[59]Embassy in Mexico City in March 1964, the records of this
[60]Agenvy reveal that source was probably in error in
[61]assuming that NOVAS was assigned to that Embassy and
[62]it is more likely that he was just passing through.
[64]The following traces by this Agency is the basis for
[65]this conclusion, #
[67]2. Anfjofficial Woateaireatredy in a report dated 24 March 1964,
[68]stat@d that Julian NOVAS Férnandez sorrived in Kingston,
[69]Jamaica, on 18 March 1964, to take up his duties at the
[70]Cuban Consulate in Kingston as Commercial Attache. ,Source
[71]said that NOVAS has the appearance of an American and
[72]speaks excellent English. Since his arrival he. has been
[74]$ espetially occupied with girls. It should be noted that Ss.
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[100]his wife did not accompany him and source speculated that her
[101]arrival may be delayed in view of NOVAS" present inclination for
[103]feminine diversion.
[105]In a report dated March 1964, this same source said that
[107]Julian NOVAS Fernandez, the Cuban Commercial Attache at the
[109]Cuban Consulate in Kingston, Jamaica, was born on 2 September 1938,
[111]m Habana, Cuba. He carried diplomatic passport D/64/90 which
[112]aS issued in Habana on 20 February 1964.- His home address was
[113]given as Carman No. 18, Vibora. He arrived in Kingston from
[114]Mexico on 18 March 1964, on Mexicana Flight Number 305.
[116]This same source, ‘in a report dated 28 April 1964, stated that
[117]..the wife of Julian:NOVAS Fernandez, the recently arrived Cuban
[119]Commercial Attache, arrived in Kingston on 22 April 1964,
[120]via Mexico. Her name is Amarilis Marta VALDES Hijuelos and
[121]she was born on 19 May 1937, in Jiquani, Oriente, Cuba. VALDES
[122]has been indisposed since her arrival in Kingston; this is
[123]probably due to her advanced pregnancy. Her home address if
[124]Cuba is Avenida 31, Number 3622, Habana. She carried diplomatic
[125]passport D,64/239, issued in Habana on 9 April 1964.
[127]This same source, ina report dated 9 May 1964, noted that
[128]the salary and allowances of the new Cuban Commercial Attache,
[130]“Julian NOVAS Fernandez, suggests that he is the new Cuban
[132]Intelligence Service chief in Jamaica, succeeding Gerardo
[133]SANCHEZ Robert.
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