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104-10308-10163 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (7/10/1963)

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                                                          10 July 1963





             MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

             SUBJECT:   Requirements  Briefing to FBI Informant Going to Cuba


                  1. In accordance with arrangements previously made with the FBI by
             SAS/CI/Liaison, .the undersigned went to New York onL6 Jly to brief an
             FBI  informant who is going to Cuba for two weeks. I had a short session
             at the FBI office in NYC with Dale Schwant, the case officer, and we then
             met with the informant for about two hours in a room at the Prince George
             Hotel.  The informant had been told that I would be at the meeting and that
             I represented the Agency, but I was not introduced to him by name.

                 2.  The gE  informant - )Victop Thomas * Vicent~e - is an American-
             born   erto Ricanporn in N   E   9     He has been under FBI control for
             nearly 3 years penetrating the three pro-Castro organizations in NYC: the
             Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC); the Casa Cuba, and the Jose Marti
             Club., Thtough the first two years Subject was only a marginal asset, in the
             last six months he has become a valuable penetratio or the FBI into the
             above 3 organizations as well as theCuban UN dele ionf having apparently
             won the complete confidence of the pro-Castro leaders and Cuban officials
             in NYC.  Recently he was asked to join the CPUSA. Subject works as a
         C  [shipping clerk in a coffee plant in Brookly3  He has the appearance and other
             attributes, according to Dale Schwant, for the role of pro- Castro revolutionary.
             The. Cubans have expressed an interest in his moving to Cuba to work. He is
             willing to go but his wife is against it, but idea is still alive.

             Cuban Sponsorship

                 3.  Subject is leaving N for Mexico City on 13 July and he expects to
             go on to Cuba illegally pj15 JYuly The Cuban Ambassa or to the. UN, Raul
             Primellas, has arranged for a Cuban visa to be ready t the embassy in toi
             Mexico Cit   and also passage to Habana on a Cubana flight. Subject is also It


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