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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY COUNTRY Cuba SUOJECT (fnu) RELOVA DATE OF 1964 INFORM PLACE Washington, DATE ACQ August 1964 SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM REPORT NOCSCI-316/00704-64 DATE DISTR 1 September 1964 NO PAGES REFERENCES FIELD REPORT NO.

THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE GRADINGS ASS DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS SENTATIVE SOURCE A former Cuban IS officer who served with the Cuban Intelligence Service until April 1964

Headquarters Comments:

The following report is one of a series containing personality information provided by the source and includes supplemental information from the records of this Agency.

It is requested that the addressees take no action on any of the individuals mentioned in the personality reports without first checking with this Agency.

(fnu) RELOVA, pseudonym "Wilberto," is an officer of the Direccion General de Inteligencia (General Directorate of Intelligence - DGI) in Cuba. He resides at Calle 15 number, 2419, Reparto Juan Manuel Marquez, Palya de Santa Fe, Mariano, Habana. 1,2,3,4,5,6 Headquarters Comments 1. An airline passenger manifest revealed that one Osvaldo 2 RELOVA Penichet, probably identical with the above Subject, left Mexico for Habana on 8 July 1963 and was the holder of Cuban passport number D/63/415.

24 An official Jamaican source in a report dated 16 October 1963, stated that Osvaldo RELOVA, the First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Canada, arrived in Kingston on 14 October 1963.. He was in Kingston for one week and lived at the Cuban Consulate office. RELOVA was reportedly making an inspection trip. RELOVA was born on 13 August 1930, in Habana. His home address was given ás 15M 2419 Santa Fe, Habana. He carried Cuban passport number D/63/415, issued in Habana on 17 June 1963.

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A former Cuban Intelligence officer who has been living in in the United States since 1963 and whose reporting over the past nine months has proven reliable, gave the following information on 21 July 1964 on Osvaldo RELOBA Penechet (presumably identical with RELOVA):

In early 1961, RELOBA was an administrator of a section of the Consolidated Hardware Stores and annexes. In late 1961 he went to see source to get help with an investigation on a Mr. BARRAL, Administrator of the Consolidated (sic). RELOBA was requesting sources aid in the belief that source was still working for G-2; source did not tell him otherwise. RELOBA is a new Communist who wants to be more than MARX and is trying to instruct everyone around him. Source said that RELOBA was born about 1934, is 164 pounds, five feet nine inches in height, has a medium thin build, a long face, and a long thin neck. He has dark eyes, black hair, is partially bald, and has a small, thin mustache.

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