</s>204-10308-10163 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET 10 July 1963 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: SUBJECT: Requirements Briefing to FBI Informant Going to Cuba 1. In accordance with arrangements previously made, with the FBI by SAS/CI/ Liaison, the undersigned went to New York on/8 July/8 brief an FBI informant who is going to Cuba for two weeks. I had a short session at the FBI office in NYC with Dale Schwartz, the case officer, and we then met with the informant for about two hours in a room at the Prince George Hotel. The informant had been told that I would not be at the meeting and that I represented the Agency, but I was not interested at him by him by name. 2. The FBI informant - Victor Thomas "Vicente" - is an American- born/Puerto Rican born in NYCY in 1980. He has been under FBI control for nearly 3 years penetrating the three Pro-Castro organizations in NYC: the Fair Play, Thirteenth of the first two years (PCC) to Castro Cuba, and the Jose Marti Club. The first two weeks (PCPC) has been held in Havana, Cuba, in the last six months he has become a valuable penetration for the FBI into the above 3 organizations as well as the Cuban delegation having apparently won the complete confidence of the pro-CastRO leaders and Cuban officials in NYC. Recently he was asked to join the CPUSA. Subject works as a in NYC, recently he was asking to join Castro leaders and Cuba officials attributes, claring to Dale Schwartz. He had the appearance and other The Cubans having expressed an interest in his moving to the Cuban revolutionary. willing to go but his wife is against it, but idea is still alive. Cuban Sponsorship 3. Subject is leaving NYC for Mexico City on 13 July and he expects to go to Cuba illegally on 15 July The Cuban Ambassador to the UN, Paul Primellas, has arranged for a Cuban visa to be a Cuban ambassador at the embassy in 70 Mexico City, and also passage to Havana on a Cuba flight. Subject as also 9/2/3

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