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

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                                   SECRET

                                                   14 January 1977,

        MEMORANDUM

        SUBJECT:  Jose Ricardo RABEL Nunez3 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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