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[38]DIST: 18 JANUARY 1996
[40]COUNTRY: CUBA
[42]SUBJ: SUSPECTED CUBAN SECURITY PENETRATIONS OF THE CUBAN HUMAN
[43]RIGHTS/DISSIDENT MOVEMENT IN CUBA
[45]DOL: 1992 - MID AUGUST 1995
[47]SOURCE: CUB-04298 IS A MID-LEVEL TECHNICIAN WHO HAD EXTENSIVE
[48]CONTACT WITH DISSTDENT GROUPS IN CUBA. UNLESS OTHERWISE
[49]NOTED, INFORMATION REPORTED IS FROM DIRECT OBSERVATION
[50]OR GOOD SECONDARY SOURCES. SOURCE DID NOT REPORT A
[51]SECURITY CLEARANCE .
[53]SUMMARY: LEADERS OF THE CUBAN CIVIC CURRENT (CORRIENTE CIVICA
[54]CUBANA), A DISSIDENT GROUP IN CUBA, SUSPECTED THREE MEMBERS OF THE
[55]GROUP, AND THE FORMER HUSBAND OF A GROUP MEMBER, OF BEING CUBAN
[56]SECURITY SOURCES OR PENETRATIONS. THE LEADERS OF THE DISSIDENT
[57]GROUP DID NOT HAVE ANY SPECTFIC EVIDENCE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS WERE
[58]CONNECTED TO CUBAN SECURITY, BUT INCIDENTS IN WHICH EACH OF THESE
[59]INDIVIDUALS WERE INVOLVED LED THE LEADERSHIP TO BECOME SUSPICTOUS
[60]dF THEM.
[62]TEXT: 1. AS OF MID AUGUST 1995, THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CUBAN
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[71]BISSIDENT GROUP, CUBAN CIVIC CURRENT (CORRIENTE CIVICA CUBANA -
[72]ccc), WAS CERTAIN THAT THE™CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS-AND-DESSLDENT —_—~——_
[73]MOVEMENTS HAD ATTRACTED THE ATTENTION OF CUBAN SECURITY, PRIMARILY
[74]THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MININT), AND THEY BELIEVED THAT MININT
[75]WAS TRYING TO PENETRATE DISSIDENT ORGANIZATIONS. CCC MEMBERS
[76]CONCERNED OVER THE GROUP’S SECURITY TAGGED FOUR INDIVIDUALS WHO
[77]EXHIBITED BEHAVIOR OR ACTIVITIES IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS OR DISSIDENT
[78]ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUGGESTED THAT THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH
[79]MININT. THE INDIVIDUALS WERE JORGE ((GONZALES)}, VLADIMIRO
[80]((ROCA)) ATUNEZ, GUILLERMO ((FERNANDEZ))} DONATES, AND RAFAEL
[82]( (ALCIDES}) .
[84]2. THE CCC LEADERSHIP WAS VIRTUALLY CERTAIN THAT JORGE
[85]GONZALEZ, OF THE CHRISTIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT (MOVIMIENTO
[86]CRISTIANO LIBERACION), HEADED BY OSVALDO ((PAYA)) SARDINAS, WAS A
[87]CUBAN SECURITY PENETRATION. DIRECTORS OF THE CCC NOTED THAT HIS
[88]QUESTIONS WERE USUALLY SO PENETRATING AS TO SUGGEST INSIDE
[89]KNOWLEDGE. A TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE CCC WAS DIRECTED AGAINST
[90]PONZALEZ, PROVIDING HIM WITH MOSTLY BOGUS INFORMATION KNOWN ONLY
[91]TO THE CCC MEMBER AND THE CCC LEADERSHIP. RECORDS OF THE DATE THE
[92]INFORMATION WAS PASSED WERE KEPT BY THE CCC. THE INFORMATION
[93]LATER SURFACED THROUGH MININT DURING THE COURSE OF MININT
[94]INTERVIEWS OF DETAINED CCC LEADERS. THE CCC LEADERSHIP BELIEVED
[95]THAT GONZALEZ MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN VENEZUELA AS OF MID AUGUST 1995.
[97]3. VLADIMIRO ROCA OF THE CUBAN DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST
[98]GURRENT (CORRIENTE SOCIALISTA DEMOCRATICA CUBANA), WHO IS.ONE OF
[99]SHE CLOSEST ASSOCIATES OF ELIZARDO ((SANCHEZ)) SANTACRUZ OF THE
[100]QUBAN COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
[101](COMISION CUBANA DE DERECHOS HUMANOS Y RECONCILIACION NACIONAL) ,
[102]GAME UNDER CCC SUSPICION AFTER AN INCIDENT IN 1992. IN THAT YEAR,
[103]SHORTLY AFTER THE LETTER BY CUBAN PROFESSIONALS TO THE IBERIAN
[104]AMERICAN SUMMIT WAS PRESENTED, CCC CHIEF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
[105]VLADIMIR ((MARTINEZ-AMORES)) ALVAREZ WAS VISITED AT HIS HOME BY
[106]GWO MININT OFFICERS. THE TWO OFFICERS WERE NAMED "MARCIAL" AND
[107]"DANIEL." THE SENIOR OF THE TWO, DANIEL, REMARKED THAT ELIZARDO
[108]SANCHEZ WAS A U.S. INTELLIGENCE AGENT. IN DUE COURSE THIS
[109]INFORMATION WAS PASSED BY MARTINEZ-AMORES TO SANCHEZ IN THE
[110]PRESENCE OF VLADIMIRO ROCA. AROUND DECEMBER 19932, DURING AN
[111]j INTERVIEW" BY MININT OF A CCC MEMBER, MARCIAL MADE A STATEMENT
[112]jPHAT INDICATED THAT HE KNEW THAT HIS INITIAL REMARKS TO
[113]MARTINEZ-AMORES ABOUT SANCHEZ HAD BEEN PASSED TO SANCHEZ. WHEN IT
[114]WAS REPORTED TO SANCHEZ THAT MININT HAD MADE THIS STATEMENT, HE
[115]ATTRIBUTED IT TO TECHNICAL COVERAGE IN HIS HOME ASSOCIATED WITH AN
[116]LP OPPOSITE HIS HOME. THE CCC WAS NOT CONVINCED BY THIS
[117]BXPLANATION AND THEREAFTER KEPT ROCA AT A DISTANCE, AS THEY
[118]ASSUMED THAT IT WAS ROCA WHO HAD PASSED THE INFORMATION TO THE
[119]MININT . (SOURCE COMMENT: ONLY ROCA, SANCHEZ AND MARTINEZ-AMORES
[120]KNEW THAT SANCHEZ HAD BEEN TOLD, AND BOTH SANCHEZ AND
[121]MARTINEZ~AMORES WERE TRUSTED MEMBERS OF THE CCC.)
[123]4. CCC’S SUSPICIONS CONCERNING ROCA HAVE GROWN STRONGER IN
[124]LEGHT OF THE FOLLOWING INCIDENTS:
[126]A. CCC MEMBER_RELI“_UDIAZ))_WAS DENIED & REQUEST FOR
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[135], ALLEGEDLY REFERRED TO VLADIMTRO ROCA AS AN AGENT OF CUBAN STATE
[137]SECRET
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[141]A VISA TO THE U.S. BY THE U.S. INTERESTS SECTION. ‘THE REPORTED
[143]GROUNDS” FOR-DENTAL-WERE-THAT-DIAZ HAD NOT SUBMITTED~SUFFLETE Se
[145]EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY THE VISA. ROCA WAS HEARD TO TELL DIAZ THAT
[147]HIS REQUEST HAD BEEN UNDERMINED BY FELIX ((BONNE)) CARCASSES, THE
[148]cece LEADER. BONNE DENIED THIS ACTION, SAYING THAT HE WOULD HAVE
[149]HAD NO INTEREST IN UNDERMINING DIAZ.
[151]B. IN EARLY 1993, JORGE GONZALEZ, A CLOSE FRIEND OF
[152]ROCA, INFORMED THE CCC LEADERSHIP THAT AN AUTHORESS, IDENTIFIED AS
[153]MAR TANA ((BADELL)) (PHONETIC), WAS PREPARING A BIOGRAPHY OF CUBAN
[154]PRESIDENT FIDEL ((CASTRO)) AND WANTED TO MEET BONNE. THE REASON
[155]FOR SUCH A MEETING IN CONNECTION WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF CASTRO WAS
[156]NOT CLEAR, BUT THE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN GONZALEZ’ HOME, AND
[157]INCLUDED BADELL, BONNE, AND MARTINEZ-AMORES. THE CCC LEADERS
[158]NOTED THAT BADELL APPEARED TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE DURING THE COURSE
[159]OF THE MEETING. SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD HAD LUNCH WITH AN
[160]OFFICIAL OF THE SPANISH EMBASSY IN HAVANA, WHO WAS ASSISTING HER
[161]WITH THE BIOGRAPHY OF CASTRO BY PUTTING HER IN TOUCH WITH ONE
[162]CARLOS ALBERTO ((MONTANER)) IN MADRID, WHO WOULD EDIT THE BOOK.
[163]SHE DECLINED TO IDENTIFY THE SPANISH OFFICAL, BUT DESCRIBED HIM IN
[164]SUCH DETAIL THAT BOTH BONNE AND MARTINEZ-AMORES RECOGNIZED HIM AS
[165]JORGE ((DE ORUETA)), A LONG-TIME CONTACT OF THE CCC. WHEN THE
[166]CONVERSATION WAS RELAYED TO DE ORUETA BY THE CCC, HE RECALLED
[167]BADELL HAD BEEN INTRODUCED TO HIM BY VLADIMIRO ROCA’S WIFE. HE
[168]FURTHER RECALLED THE LUNCH AND MENTION OF THE BOOK, BUT DECLARED
[169]THE MONTANER INFORMATION TO BE SPURIOUS. THIS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
[170]SUGGESTED TO CCC SECURITY PERSONNEL THAT THERE WAS COORDINATION
[171]AMONG INDIVIDUALS SUSPECTED OF BEING DIRECTED BY CUBAN SECURITY.
[173]C. IN 1993 A GROUP OF DISSIDENTS, INCLUDING BONNE, WAS
[174]INVITED TO THE HOME OF PIOTR ((MIKISKA)) (PHONETIC), FIRST
[175]SECRETARY AT THE CZECH EMBASSY, TO ATTEND A VISIT FROM THE CZECH
[176]VICE CHANCELLOR . (SOURCE COMMENT: THIS KIND OF CONTACT WAS
[177]ANATHEMA TO THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT.) THE CZECH INVITATION TO BONNE
[178]WAS SENT THREE DAYS IN ADVANCE BY WORD OF MOUTH VIA ROCA. BY
[179]COINCIDENCE, ANOTHER CCC REPRESENTATIVE VISITING MIKISKA WITHIN A
[180]DAY OR TWO OF WHEN THE INVITATION WAS RELAYED TO ROCA WAS ASKED
[181]ABOUT THE INVITATION TO BONNE, AS BONNE HAD NOT RESPONDED TO THE
[182]GZECH EMBASSY. THE CCC REPRESENTATIVE INCLUDED THE QUERY
[183]REGARDING THE INVITATION IN HIS REPORT OF THE MEETING TO THE ece,
[184]GIVING BONNE HIS FIRST NOTIFICATION THAT THERE HAD EVEN BEEN AN
[185]INVITATION. ROCA FINALLY PASSED THE MESSAGE TO THE HOME OP
[186]GEORGINA DE LAS MERCEDES ((GONZALEZ)) CORBO, ONE OF BONNE’S CHIEF
[188]ASSISTANTS, TWO HOURS PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE FUNCTION.
[190]Dd. IN MID 1995, REINALDO ((ROQUE)) MALHERBE OF ccc
[191]REPORTED THAT VLADIMIRO ROCA’S WIFE WAS UNDERMINING ELIZARDO
[192]SANCHEZ BY PASSING AROUND STORIES THAT HE HAD BEEN WITHHOLDING
[193]ORGANIZATIONAL FUNDS, INTENDED FOR THE SOCIALIST CURRENT, FOR HIS
[194]PERSONAL USE. (SOURCE COMMENT: THIS RUMOR CAMPAIGN MAY HAVE
[195]*CONTRIBUTED TO SANCHEZ’ REPORTED RESIGNATION FROM THE<EXECUTIVE>
[196]GOMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST CURRENT. )
[198]ERE PORTING ON-RADIO-MARTI-FROM-M-EAMI—AROUND-—MID_1995
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[211](55 URITY. ROCA HIMSELF WAS REPORTED IN CUBAN DISSIDENT CIRCLES rm)
[212]WAVE STATED THAT HE WAS A LONG-TIME PRIEND OFF MAGOR GENERAL PABTAN-——<
[213](CESCALANTE) ) FONT, WHO WAS REPORTEDLY THE CHIEF OF THE MININT
[214]DIRECTORATE OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE (DCT). CHEADQUARTENS COMMENT:
[216]ESCALANTE FONT NOW HEADS THE MINISTRY'S HISTORY COMMISSTON AND IS
[217]*KNOWN FOR HIS INQUIRIES INTO THR PRESIDENT<JOHN>F.<KENNEDY>
[218]ASSASSINATION, THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION, AND THE CUBAN MISSILE
[219]CRISIS.)
[221]4 GUILLERMO FERNANDEZ DONATES IS A CIVIL ENGINEER WHO WAS 7
[222]3 ‘O-CUSTAVO™({ARCOS))~ BERGNES~OF ~FHE—C HBAN-COMMLTTEE-FOR———_—_-
[223]HUMAN RIGHTS (COMITE CUBANO PRO DERECHOS HUMANOS). HE WAS
[225]SUSPECTED OF BEING A MININT SOURCE AND A PROVOCATEUR BY THE ccc
[226]LEADERSHIP. HE JOINED THE CCC ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF ARCOS
[228]ERCAUSE FERNANDEZ WAS A MEMBER OF THE PROFESSIONAL CLASS. (SOURCE
[229]COMMENT : MANY MEMBERS OF THE CCC ARE PROFESSIONALS. ) THE CCC
[230]INITIALLY BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF FERNANDEZ BECAUSE HE HAD A HISTORY
[232]OF ARRESTS IN WHICH HE WOULD BE PLACED WITH VARIOUS GROUPS OF
[233]POLITICAL PRISONERS. IN PRISON HE WOULD EVENTUALLY HAVE A FIGHT
[235]WITH A GUARD OR COMMIT AN INFRACTION OF REGULATIONS AND BE REMOVED
[236]BY|THE AUTHORITIES FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION. EACH TIME HE EMERGED
[237]FROM PRISON HE SEEMED TO BE IN EXCELLENT HEALTH AND WELL FED.
[239]6. ADDITIONALLY, SEVERAL OTHER ANOMALIES HAVE CAUSED THE
[240]CCC) LEADERSHIP TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF FERNANDEZ:
[242]A. ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, FERNANDEZ HAS BEEN ASKED BY
[243]THE, CCC TO COMMUNICATE ITEMS OF MUTUAL INTEREST TO ARCOS.
[244]SUBSEQUENT ELICITATION OF ARCOS BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CCC LED
[245]THEM TO BELIEVE THAT INFORMATION PROVIDED BY FERNANDEZ TO ARCOS
[246]WAS! OFTEN GROSSLY INACCURATE. WHEN APPRISED OF THIS SITUATION,
[247]ARCOS DISMISSED CCC COMMENTS AS BEING SIMPLE MISUNDERSTANDINGS..
[249]B. IT HAS BEEN NOTED BY THE CCC LEADERSHIP THAT
[250]FERNANDEZ WAS FRIENDLY WITH JORGE GONZALEZ AND WITH VLADIMIRO
[251]ROCA, FERNANDEZ WAS PRIVY TO THE ACTIVITIES PLANNED BY SOCIALIST
[252]CURRENT, THE GROUP TO WHICH ROCA BELONGED, BY HIS ASSOCIATION WITH
[253]ROCA. REINALDO ROQUE, A MEMBER OF THE CCC, WHO WORKED WITH
[254]SOCIALIST CURRENT, NOTED THAT WHEN THE GROUP WAS SCHEDULED TO
[255]MEET, IT WAS CHALLENGED BY CUBAN AUTHORITIES SO OFTEN THAT THE
[256]AUTHORITIES MUST HAVE BEEN APPRISED OF ITS SCHEDULE. EITHER
[257]FERNANDEZ OR ROCA (OR BOTH) COULD HAVE BEEN PASSING SUCH
[258]INFORMATION TO THE AUTHORITIES.
[260]C. ON ONE OCCASION, TO THE SURPRISE OF THE CCC,
[261]HERNANDEZ, A KARATE PRACTITIONER, INVITED THE ENTIRE ccc
[262]EMBERSHIP TO GO TO THE CIUDAD DEPORTIVA (SPORTS CITY) TO AN
[263]EXERCISE FIELD TO WORK OUT. CCC SECURITY PERSONNEL NOTED THAT
[264]PHIS WOULD HAVE ASSEMBLED ALL OR MOST OF THE ccc MEMBERSHIP IN
[265]HAVANA IN AN OPEN AREA WHERE IT COULD BE OBSERVED AND
[266]PHOTOGRAPHED. THE INVITATION, COMING AS IT pDtp AS A ONE-TIME
[267]OPPORTUNITY WITH NO PRECEDENT, FUELED SUSPICIONS WITHIN THE ¢cce¢e
[268]AND THE INVITATION WAS DECLINED.
[273]{ “7. A SERIES OF EVENTS INVOLVING RAFAEL ALCIDES, A NOTED
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[283]Thames POET AND FIRST HUSBAND OF Aut T0 THE cee BECRISE 1? cautae 7 ;
[285]MEMBER—OP~THE CCC), WAS SIGNIFICANT TO THE CCC BECAUSE IT CALLED
[286]INTO QUESTION WHERE ALCIDES’ LOYALTIES LAY. ALCIDES AND FERNANDEZ
[287]HAD ONE CHILD, A SON, TOGETHER BEFORE THEY WERE DIVORCED AROUND
[288]LATE 1993. FERNANDEZ HAD REMARRIED AND WAS LIVING WITH RONALDO
[290]( (ROQUE) ) (COUSIN OF REINALDO ROQUE), AND ALCIDES WAS SPENDING
[291]CONSIDERABLE TIME AT THE ROQUE RESIDENCE, PRESUMABLY TO BE WITH
[292]HIS SON. THE CCC BECAME CONCERNED WITH THE SECURITY OF THE
[293]SITUATION AS FERNANDEZ WAS PRIVY TO ccc INFORMATION AND WAS
[294]ASSESSED AS BEING EMOTIONAL AND TENDING TO CONFIDE TOO MUCH.
[295]MARTINEZ-AMORES WAS DISPATCHED BY THE ccc TO FEEL OUT ALCIDES, AND
[296]REPORTED THAT HE SPOKE COHERENTLY AND LOGICALLY AGAINST THE
[297]CURRENT REGIME. MARTINEZ-AMORES APPEARED TO BE REASSURED.
[298]SUBSEQUENTLY HOWEVER, IN CONVERSATION WITH ALCIDES, REINALDO ROQUE
[299]LEARNED THAT ALCIDES WAS PART OF A DELEGATION OF THE CUBAN
[300]NATIONAL UNION OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS (UNION NACIONAL DE
[301]IBSCRITORES Y ARTISTAS DE CUBA - UNEAC) THAT VISITED MADRID
[302]SOMETIME AROUND 1994. WHILE THERE, ALCIDES SAID THAT HE WAS
[303]INVITED WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER UNEAC DELEGATES TO LUNCH WITH
[304]CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER. (SOURCE COMMENT: THE LUNCHEON WITH
[305]MONTANER MUST CERTAINLY HAVE RECEIVED CUBAN GOVERNMENT APPROVAL,
[306]AND THE GROUP MUST HAVE INCLUDED CUBAN SECURITY PERSONNEL. )}
[307]ALCIDES TOLD ROQUE THAT ON HIS RETURN TO CUBA, HE ATTENDED THE
[308]FUNERAL FOR A SISTER (NFI) OF FIDEL CASTRO AND DELIVERED THE
[309]FUNERAL ORATION. FOLLOWING THE FUNERAL, HE WAS OBSERVED TO BE
[310]EMBRACED BY MINISTER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES GENERAL
[311]RAUL ((CASTRO)) RUZ.
[313]POC: ECC, HOWARD, SECURE X-43770, STU III (703) 506 7687.
[314]ACO: (LATE OCTOBER 1995)
[316]DISSEM: FIELD: SENT TO; USCINCSO, USCINCACOM, AIC, USCINCTRANS,
[317]USCINCSOC, ISOC.
[319]WARNING: REPORT CLASS S E C R E T--WARNING NOTICE - - INTELLIGENCE
[320]SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLVED--NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS. }
[322]DECL: X1 CL REASON 1.5(C) DRV FROM HUM-4 BY RECORDED REPORTING
[323]OFFICER. ALL PORTIONS CARRY CLASSIFICATION AND CONTROLS OF
[325]OVERALL DOCUMENT.
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