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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch83890 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10308-10163 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992









                                                          10 July 1963





              MEMORANDUM FOR THE RE CORD:

              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 on[8 Julyto 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   W informant - Victo Thomas  * Vicente - is an American-
             bornfuerto  Rican~orn in NI 30 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 penetratioAor the FBI into the
             above 3 organizations as well as theCCuban UN deletio , having apparently
             won the complete confidence of the pro- Castro leaders a Cuban officials
             in NYC.  Recently he was asked to join the CPUSA. Subject works as a
         of 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 NYQ forMexico City on 13 July and he expects to
             go on to Cuba illegally n 15 July The Cuban Ambassar   to the UN, Raul
             Primellas, has arranged for a Cuban visa to be ready t the embassy in'01
             Mexico  Cit  and also passage to Habana on a Cubana flight. Subject is also I



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