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104-10183-10424 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (06/28/1965)

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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
                                                             03
                     Participants:  Carlos TEPEDINO, arry 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 conspiring against BATISTA acting as an accommodation
                     addressee for Jose Antonio ECHEVARRIA (now deceased) and close
                     associates of ECHEVARRIA, inclidng Rolando CUBELAS.  Others
                     involved with Carlos in the anti-BATISTA activities included
                     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 durin the Grau
                     government 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 Cuba), Daniel VAS14UEZ (a
                     Cuban air force pilot now residing in Miami), and Carlos PRIO
                     Soccoras (former President of Cuba). During this same period,
                     he came to know Jose VENEGAS Valdespino, known as El Chino;
                     but Carl.3s nzver was friendly with VENEGAS knowing him only as
                     an associate of Rolando CUBEAS in student activities.  Carlos'
                     friendship with Rolando res'ilted from their being introd:iced by
                     Antonio ECHEVARRIA.

                         2.  In addition to serving as an acconimdation addr;:-.'
                    'or the revolu.tionaries who were plotting against BA'IS':A, Carlos
                    used his business premises to hide people leeing from the BATISTA
                    police and to hide arms for the revolutionaries.  He also
                    contributed finds to the revolutionary cause.

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