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104-10164-10186 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (08/21/1973)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch73848 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10164-10186 .4 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 1950, 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 Iavana. He was used by CIA in Havana as a source of political information and recruited a number of valuable a;ents 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-time service, in the eapasity of a local Miami representative of a rou workin with numerous anti-Castro contacts at all leve s under the direction of a seniot CIA officer. de also toported on persons alleged to be Castro agents in the Us -40 ,. q -. a. .4, I J t 02022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 i t s i

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