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104-10183-10424 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/28/1965)

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                                                        28 June  1965

                     CONTACT REPORT

                     Meetings of 22 June 1965 at Hotel Roosevelt and.23 June  1965
                     at the Tador Roam of the Hotel Commodore

                     Participants:  Carlos TEPEDINO, Tarry Webster)and Harold F..
                                    Swenson

                     (All the information reported below is from TEPEDINO


                     A.  PRQ-1'form filled out by Carlos.  See attached original.
                         (Copies being made for 201)

                    .B,  Involvement in political activity or revolutionary or
                         counter-revolutiona-y activity

                         1.   Carlos has never been active in politics and voted only
                     once in his life - for a candidate of the Authentic Party.
                     However, he has been active in revolutionary and counter-
                     revolutionary activities since 1952.  During the year 1952-53
                     he began conspiri ng against BATISTA acting as an accommodation
                     addressee for Jose Antonio ECHEVARRIA (now deceased) and close
                     associates of ECHEVARRIA, incling   Rolando CUBELAS.  Others
                     involved with Carlos in the anti-BATISTA activities incladed
                     Ricardo MIDAN Rivas (who had been a Senator in the Prio govern-
                     ment and a Minister in the Grau government and who now resides
                     in Miami), Sergio MEJIAS (who had been both Senator and Minister
                     during the Prio government, a representative d'irin; the Grau
                     goverhment and who is now the Mayor of Matanzas), Diego Vicente
                     TEJERA (now in Santo Domingo where he is trying to start a
                     fishing business and where he is a close friend of IMBERT),
                     Marcelino Marzo ARTIME (no relation to Manuel ARTIME),
                     Fernando CORTINA (now a prisoner in Caba), Daniel VASQEUEZ (a
                     Cuban air force pilot now residing in Miami), and Carlos PRIO
                     Soccoras (former President of Cuba).  During thissame period,
                     he came to know Jose VENEGAS Valdespino, known as El Chino;
                     but Carl.os nivver was friendly with VENEGAS knowing him only as
                     an associate of Rolando CUBELAS in student activities.  Cdrlos'
                     friendship with Rolando ros'zlted fron their being introduced by
                     Antonio ECHEVARRIA.

                          2.  In addition to serving as an accommodation addres-s.,
                     ror the revoluitionaries who were plotting aqainst BArIS'2A, Carlos
                     used his business premises to hide people Seeing from th,. BATISTA
                     police and to hide arms for the revolutionaries. He  also
                     contributed linds to the revolitionary cause.

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