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180-10144-10219 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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                  Classif ication: SECRE'

                  (This form  is to be used for material extracted
                  from CIA---controlled documents.)

                        BERNARD LEON BARKER       ! RTU        A
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                 BIOGRAPHIC DATA AND CHRONOLOGY       Not1eprodd


     CRYPTONYM:  AMCLATTER-1

     PSEUDONYM:  Spencer O. Terteling)

     PERSONALITY TRAITS:     Howard Hunt  praised Barker in his
           book, Give Us This Day, for  his eagerness, efficiency
           and complete dedication.  Overall his help was invaluable.
           The individual po  first recruited  Barker in Havana
           lauded his enthd~iasm and his  puppy-dog loyalty to his
           case officers, but  found he was inclined to indiscretion
           because of a  belliger nt pro-Americanism.  Another CIA
           officer,(David Morales   told Chris Hopkins in a 1972 tele-
           phone conversation  tha  Barker was a lou  outh  ho
           Morales)recommended  terminating in 1962.  Morales was
           concerned that as a resit   of Barker's Wa ergate involve-
           ment, he would  tell the authorities everything he knows.
           Indeed, Barker  tended to broadcast his affiliation with
           the CIA  to the members of the Cuban exile community.and
           anyone else who might  have been interested.  This was
           tolerable prior  to the Bay of Pigs when his assignment
           as  liaison between the FRD and the CIA was-overt.  However,
           post Bay  of Pigs CIA activities in the Miami area  -
           required  a more covert approach.  Barkbr was:,.
           told  to strengthen his cover as prize fight manager and
           use  cut-outs in his attempts to gather information
           about  the activities of the exile groups.  Gradually,
           he  was to cease all direct contact with the exiles.  For
           a man.who  had a love yof the game, and an even greater
           affinity  for the.more overt techniques of investigation
           and  interview, it became increasingly difficult to find
           a  nidhe in Miami CIA activities.  By the time he was
           terminated  from CIA employemnt in 1966, he had been
           involved  less and less with gathering information on
           Cuban  exile activities, and had spent the greater part
           of  his time debriefing recent refugees from Cuba. .
           He  never seemed to adapt to the more covert requirements
           of  his job nor was he ever able to establish the collective
           exile  community perception that he was no longer affiliated
           with  the Agency.





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