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104-10186-10254 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (9/15/1964)

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 COUNTRY Cuba                                  REPORT NO.  CSCI 316/01203-64

 SUBJECT- Ovidio SAMA Viamonte           DATE DISTR.  15 September 1964

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 DATE ACO. September 1964                     FIELD REPORT NO.
        THIS iS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE oGADINoS ARE DeFNIiTIVE. APPRaiSAL Of CONTuNT IS TfNTaToL

 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.



           Ovidio  SAMA Viamonte,  pseudonym  Salgado,  is the Cuban
       Vice Consul  at Veracruz,  Mexico.   He was .recently (April  1964)
       inVdlved  in the shooting  of an  individual who  attempted to
       bomb  the Consulate;  SAMA is out of  jail on bail.   Source said
       that SAMA  is an officer  of the Direccion  General  de
       Inteligencia  (General  Directorate  of Intelligence  - DGI).
       Although  source has  no documentary  proof, he said  he knew of  SAMA's
       Cuban intelligence   affiliation from  his own  (gource's) trip
       to Mexico,  from observations  in  the DGI Headquarters,  and  from
       general shoptalk.1,2,3,4,5

       Headquarters  Comments

       1.  An April  1963 report  identified Ovidio  SAMA  Viamonte, Cuban
           passport  number 63/174,  as a Cuban  diplomat  assigned to the
           Cuban Consulate  in  Veracruz, Mexico.

       2.  A usually  reliable  source, lin a report dated  21 May 1963,
           stated  that Ovidio  SAMA was the Cuban  Vice Consul  in Veracruz,   5
           Mexico,  and that he  was quite sick  with an amoeba.           4
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