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104-10186-10254 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (09/15/1964)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER  THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION  RECORDS  ACT OF 1992




                              CENTRAL  INTELLIGENCE AGENCY


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 COUNTRY Cuba                                  REPORT NO.   CSCI 316/01203-64

 SUBJECT. Ovidio SAMA Viamonte           DATE DISTR.  15 September 1964

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 DATE ACO. September 1964                      FIELD REPORT NO.
        THIS IS UNEVALUATED  INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINOS ARE DEFINIIIVE  APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE _

 SOURCE: A former Cuban IS officer  who served  with the  Cuban
        Intelligence  Service  until April 1964.

        Headquarters  Comments

            The following  report  is one of  a series containing
       personality   information  provided by  the source  and includes
       supplemental   information  from the records  of  this Agency.

            It is requested  that  the addressees  take no  action on  any of
       the  individuals  mentioned  in the personality  reports  without
       first  checking  with this  Agency.



           Ovidio  SAMA  Viamonte,  pseudonym  Salgado,  is the Cuban
       Vice  Consul at  Veracruz, Mexico.   He was  recently  (April 1964)
       inVdlved  in the  shooting of  an individual  who attempted  to
       bomb  the Consulate;  SAMA  is out of jail  on bail.   Source said
       that SAMA  is an  officer of  the Direccion  General  de
       Inteligencia  (General  Directorate  of  Intelligence  - DGI).
       Although  source  has no documentary  proof,  he said  he knew of SAMA's
       Cuban  intelligence  affiliation  from his  own (Source's)  trip
       to Mexico,  from observations   in the DGI  Headquarters,  and from
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       Headquarters  Comments

       1.  An April  1963  report identified  Ovidio  SAMA Viamonte,  Cuban
           passport  number  63/174, as  a Cuban diplomat  assigned  to the
           Cuban  Consulate  in Veracruz,  Mexico.

       2.  A usually  reliable  source,  fn a report  dated 21 May -1963,
           stated  that Ovidio  SAMA was  the Cuban  Vice Consul  in Veracruz,   5
           Mexico,  and that  he was quite  sick with  an amoeba.           4
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