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104-10162-10064 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/1/1961)

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1 February 1961


                Manuel rI   aessa -
                Review of Yile Initiated on Receint of
                Derogatory Information on &bSect from Pedro DIAZ Ianz


     1. Beause  of the caents made by Peiro Luis DIAZ Lans on 13 Jar-ary
1961 to the effect that a-el AL.E'E ?zesa may be z# Co=mist agent, AZ s
file was reviewed for the ;'rnase of uzov-e-ing ary information which 2d a t
support LIAZ' allegation.

     2. Areas onen to question. are 2he fc2llowing:

     a. Cora-te;st Party Lfi:ation of SEdisect's Father: As noted by MArt2a
            -,    /7A,?A.   zz state*   --. mis poL-raph e aEn atioC that his
                                   ~     ra t~y ~    Zae ZqaL    Z. -Mar,
        had gone to Stain aring the a=, ht had not been a amber of tae
        Commonist Party si .ce 1939. 2's subect was not sued    -     -
        graph cperator. Sh ect gare s-nzeat varynig accounts for the reas=as
        for his father's -rtt.ng the Pat: d~ring the polygrach examaton,
                heri- Theznlainedxmia--=
        he explained that The Party had i-:ended to send his father to Ezss-a
        for training, a-d aso had ordered his father to inform on his frieda
        when his father refased, the Par-y exelled him. later, -n an a:to-
        bioapazh. F-2biect stated that hi* father hkd left the i,+-  ne--
        of the treason which fh7 cc-z.ftted against his intimate ^riend,
        FEFU¶. Z Martinez. 2is treaso- was not frther detailed. S-h.ect
        stated that his fataezr'a expulsion (or resignation) was reporned in
        Eoy at the time.

    b.  Beve-t on te October 9~9i3?.nting:   Sbject  renorted that the
        cpen acrissions of a:isa  zate y PFidel et al during a closed-door
        IRA necting in Octcber 1959 precipiated his c4ection. Szb-ect could
        not, however, renaker the dates of the meeting. At first he reported
      * that it took nlace during the last week in October 1959. (His letter
  : . 'to  idel stating his reasons for defection, which was widely ct::lated
       after his exfiltraticn, was dated ^c; October.) He later correced this
       to 7-3 October. Dring the polygsaph examination, he stated he could
       - not remember the dates, but that it was a bro-day meeting, on a Saturda
       and Stcday, some tine in mid-October.

    3. The following actions were taken in an attempt to resolve dobts rased
b7 these points:

    .  Comanist Affiliation of Father.

       (1)  Names of parents we traced in BID, with negative results.

                                                        (2) Nanes and/i









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