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104-10102-10231 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/14/1977)

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                                                        14 January  1977

             MEMORANDUM

             SUBJECT:  Jose Ricardo RABEL Nunez  (AMLEO-3) (201-249386)


                  1.  Born 7 April 1922  in Havana, Cuba, the son of a

             native-born American citizen, RABEL was  brought up in comfor-

             table circumstances.  He attended  high school in Cuba, com-

             pleted the last year in New Orleans,  Louisiana, and entered

             Tulane University in September  1938.  He enlisted in the U.S.

             Army in December 1940 and eventually  saw combat in France,

             Belgium, Germany and Austria.  After  discharge in December 1945,

             RABEL returned to Cuba to attend  the University of Havana

             and this began a life of job changes,  moving back and forth

             between the U.S. and Cuba, and,  in general, rootless living.
                  2.  RABEL's background reads  like that of a man with no

             ale~ginces.or  loyalties and no particular  goals.  Viewed in

             retrospect, his career presents  a picture of unreliability.

             It is probable that RABEL's rootlessness  and apparent

             unreliability applied both  to his relations with CASTRO and to

             those with the Agency.  It  is quite possible, therefore, that

             he not only served the Agency  in a superficial way but that

             he did the same for CASTRO at various  times when it suited his

             purposes.  Without postulating  this sort of dual role (one

             which fits very well with his previous  life) it is almost

             impossible to explain some of  the reasonably good things he

             did for the Agency and the  quite certain allegations that

             he was a CASTRO agent.  This  explanation is not fully satis-

             factory, but it does explain  his career better than the charge








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