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104-10103-10350 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/14/1977)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch71997 and id is 1 raw text is: 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992


                            SECRET

                                           14 January 1977.

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:  Jose Ricardo RABEL  Nunez  AMLEO-3 '(201-249386)


     1.  Born 7 April  1922 in Havana, Cuba, the son of a

native-born American  citizen, RABEL was brought up in comfor-

table circumstances.   He attended high school in Cuba, com-

pleted the last year  in New Orleans, Louisiana, and entered

Tulane University  in September 1938.  He enlisted in the U.S.

Army in December  1940 and eventually saw combat in France,

Belgium, Germany and Austria.   After discharge in December -1945,

RABEL returned to  Cuba to attend the University of Havana

and this began a  life of job changes, .moving back and forth

between the U.S.  and Cuba, and, in general, rootless living.

     2.  RABEL's background  reads like that of a man with no

allegiances.or  loyalties and no particular goals.  Viewed in

retrospect, his career  presents a picture of unreliability.

It is probable that  RABEL's rootlessness and apparent

unreliability applied  both to his relations with CASTRO and to

those with the Agency.   It is quite possible, therefore, that

he not only  served the Agency in a superficial way but that

he did the same  for CASTRO at various times when it suited his

purposes.- Without  postulating this sort of dual role (one

which fits very well  with his previous life) it is almost

impossible to  explain some of the reasonably good things he

did for the Agency  and the quite certain allegations that

he was a CASTRO  agent.  This explanation is not fully satis-

factory, but  it does explain his career better than the charge


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