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104-10164-10186 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (8/21/1973)

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                                                 21 August 1973



               MEMORANDUM
               SUBJECT:  Bernard L. BARKER

                     1,  Barker was born  in Havana, Cuba on 17 March 1917
               of a native-born U.S.  father and a Cuban mother. - His birth
               was recorded at the U.S.  Embassy and he was recognized as
               having acquired U.S.  citizenship by birth through the
               citizenship of his  father.  He traveled, not on a .U.S. pass-
               port,  but on an identity card proclaiming his U.S. citizen-
               ship.   He entered the U.S. Army Air Corps In World War II,
               was  shot down on his 12th mission over Germany and was a
               prisoner  of war for 16 months.  He was honorably separated
               with  the rank of Captain.  In 19S0, along with several
               Cuban-born  U.S. citizens who were war veterans, he entered
               the  Cuban police force, where his bilingual abilities soon
               brought  him advancement.
                      2.  Barker's relationship with CIA began in mid-1959
                in Havana as the result of his position with the Cuban
                police force, In which capacity he.was detailed to  liaison
                duty with U.S. agencies  in Pavana. He was used by  CIA in
                Havana as a source of  volitical information and recruited
                a number of valuable  aents  for the CIA office in Havana*
                For personal  security reasons he was expeditiously evacuated
                from  Cuba and arrived in the Miami area in January 1960
                As  a result of his excellent record with CIA in Havana and
                favorable  assessment by a senior CIA official in Miami in
                January  1960. Barker was hired under a contractual relation*
                Ship  with the CIA Miami office effective 4 April .1960 at
                the  fate of $300 dollars a month for full-tise service, in
                the  sapacity eo a local Miami representative of B aM
                workin   With numerAs  anti-Castro contacts at all  eve s
                under   he direetion of a senior CIA officer.  die also
                reported  on persons Alsaged to be Castro agents in the U.S.

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