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180-10144-10219 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (00/00/0000)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch82778 and id is 1 raw text is: 180-10144-10219 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 Classification: SECRET (This form is to be used for material extracted v. from CIA-controlled documents.) BERNARD LEON BARKER r: RE A ACkCgundi Us Onlf y BIOGRAPHIC DATA AND CHRONOLOGY D> N prod IL 0 CRYPTONYM: (AMCLATTER-1) PSEUDONYM: Spencer O. Terteling) PERSONALITY TRAITS: ' Howard Hunt praised Barker in his book, Give Us This Day, for his eagerness, efficiency and complete dedication. Overall his help was invaluable. The individual -po first recruited Barker in Havana lauded his enthitsiasm and his puppy-dog loyalty to his case officers, but found he was inclined to indiscretion because of a belliger nt pro-Americanism. Another CIA officer, David Morales told Chris Hopkins in a 1972 tele- phone conversation tha Barker was a lou outh ho Morales recommended terminating in 1962. Morales was concerned that as a result of Barker's Wa ergate involve- ment, he would tell the authorities everything he knows. Indeed, Barker tended to broadcast his affiliation with the CIA to the members of the Cuban exile community and. _ anyone else who might have been interested. This was tolerable prior to the Bay of Pigs when his assignment as liaison between the FRD and the CIA was overt. However, post Bay of Pigs CIA activities in the Miami area . required a more covert approach. Barker was told to strengthen his cover as prize fight manager and use cut-outs in his attempts to gather information about the activities of the exile groups. Gradually, he was to cease all direct contact with the exiles. For a man .who had a love. *of the game, and an even greater affinity for the. more overt techniques of investigation and interview, it became increasingly difficult to find a niche in Miami CIA activities. By the time he was terminated from CIA employemnt in 1966, he had been involved less and less with gathering information on Cuban exile activities, and had spent the greater part of his time debriefing recent refugees:from Cuba.0 He: never seemed to adapt to the more covert requirements of his job nor was he ever able to establish the collective exile community perception that he was no longer affiliated with the Agency. 2 r. Classification: Classified by derivation:

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