“14-00000 CIA INTESA USE ONLY REPORT CLASSIFICATION * CONFIDENTIA L/WNINTEL/CIA 5 INTERNAL USE ONLY REPORT NUMBER: 00-A(S) 322/26419-76. TWX NO.: DCD/MIAMI 13513\ COUNTRY: VENEZUELA' SUBJECT: OPERATIONAL LEAD - LUIS POSADA CARRILES' (THIS REPORT IS BELIEVED TO CONTAIN I”
“14-00000 30 January 197S I MEMORANDUM FOR: Alien Affairs Officer, OPS/LSN SUBJECT : Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles 1. On 30 June 1974 Luis Clemente POSADA’s employment with the Agency was terminated by mutual consent. At that time he was establishing a private investigat”
“C H s E im ifA D CEPDET / :1 vLURC Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles (201-300969) WKSCIRLEC-3 (formerly ANCLLVE-15, CIFENCE-4) DPCS 15 February 1920, Cienfuegos, Cuba U.S. Permanent Resident Alien (PRA) at least until 30 May 75. Possibly has lost status ng result of allowin”
“14-00000 21 November 1969 MEMORANDUM FOR: Alien Affairs Staff, Office of Security ATTENTION Mr. John Rooney' SUBJECT : Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles (201-300985) REFERENCE : Caracas 4018 (IN 87480) copy attached 1. Caracas Station has requested Headquarters assistance i”
“aintenance and use of cover for Subject during his Agency career as a Staff Employee from 1956-70. - b. Louis Posada CCS maintains a covert tax file on Subject containing 58 documents covering his employment as an Independent Contractor from 1968-75. Information in this file may ”
“cis SECRET o jits. ; 25 January 1968 MEMORANDUM FORI Chief, CI/OA SUBJ ECT 1 Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles 201-300985 1. It is requested that a Provisional Operation Approval be granted for the use of subject as a penetration agent into DIG POL and the Remberto VUZCA”
“1 4-00000 SECRET 25 January 1968 M R unn MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/OA SUBJECT Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles 201-300985 X. It is requested that a Provisional Operation Approval be granted for the use of subject as a penetration agent into DIGEPOL and the Remberto UZCAT”
“14-00000 her 25 Jan 68 NSMOR-RDUM FCR: Chief, CI/OA Subject i Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles 201 - 300985 1. It is requested that a Provisional Operational Approval be granted for the use of subject as a penetration agent into DIGNPOL and the. Remberto VUZCATEGUI Bruzual”
“1 4-00000 France DETArr A-dlankt-ikliteli 5cird %,". : is ‘co Y. . .. / 20 October 1976 INR/DOC/CPS SUBJECT: Data for Inclusion in Draft Memorandum To Secretary of State - REFERENCE: LDX-0714, 19 October 1976 1. In response to the queries posed in the Reference, th”
“POSADA IS DESCRIBED IN THE REPORT AS A FORMER U.S. ARMY RANGER. WHO WORKED FOR THE VENEZUELAN GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF POLICE (DIGEPOL) FOR EIGHT YEARS AND THEN ORGANIZED A PRIVATE DETECTIVE AGENCY WHICH EMPLOYS OVER 1.000 MEN. POSADA. ACCORDING DATE: ORIG: UNITS EXT: ercease-a”
“3 th 12.A JMWAVE 318. INC1749, 23 September 1966 stated that Madr: B-8990 (IN 85265 reported that Roberto arrived in Madrid from Havana 26 August 1966. BOnlyPER (Transmittal BLUIS POSADA Part I) other station traces on Roberto is "UFGA-20828 which passed information provide”
“3I Information Cable TDCS-314/11033-68 dated 7/12/68, reporting- 2to ginformation regarding ‘plan of Cuban exiles to ship arms frome 1 a Venezuela on 3 July, 1968." CIA source was CIA source described in was described in N 38 Information Cable as an experienced police invest”
“)0000 ox-vdyo I A 20 October 1976 SUBJECT: Data for Inclusion in Draft Memorandum To Secretary of State REFERENCE: LDX-0714, 19 October 1976• 1. In response to the queries posed in the Reference, there follows below amplification of information concerning Luis Pcsada. ”
“14-00000 1 SECRET 4 December 1967 MEMORANDUM FOR: CI/LIA SUBJECT ILuis Clemente Faustino POSADA - Carriles Xt la requested that the military 201 file of subject be borrowed from the Department of Army for our review. From records available to us we believe he entered”
“-4 - NOTE: Posada claims to have been tCahmps e chief instructor for TURE for three months in an unspecified yean prior to 1965. Additional info Luis Clemente L. AKA: Bambi Carriles Posada Carriles Bambi Carriles Julian Posada Carriles Julian Carriles 2. He has listed ”
“1 4-00000 ATACHMENT 9. to UFGA-28432 *.L _ SE CR-E T _Chief_of Station,JNWAVE____ NTR292 vo6 in Ci:* / Acting Chief, WIID 9 $*0c." Operations C/PBRUMEN ar, rion Interrogation of "CIA Agents" at LASO.. Conference- QUSED - REFERENCES FYI 7201 TOS 1. The attached i”
“14-00000 300985 SECRET DATs REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION AND/OR NAME CHECK 19 January 1972 JR wOJtC T 25 A=l • 06 4451000 «T TO : Deputy Director Securi’y, 10 FROM: Chief, Cl/Operational Approval and Support Division WH/ 3/V Venezuela SUBJECT: 201 - 300985 SO • 319235 1 ”
“SECRET MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Alien Affairs Staff Office of Security SUBJECT : Request for Double Re-Entry Permits for Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles and Wife . and Preservation of Residence for POSADA 2. It is requested that the double Re-Entry Pormit arrangement be obtaine”
“14-00000 as o-n-T 1 29 June 1967 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Luis Clements POSADA-Carriles REFERENCES: a. Memo for Record, 26 June 1967, by LRH, same subject b. Williamson/Henze Telephone Conversation, 28 June 1967 1. In my meeting with the Department of J”
“1 4-00000 .... KERMN FOR: CI/tZA SUBJECT : Luis Clemente Faustino POSADA - Carriles - Y Dese 67 " Q2 2e 1s requested that the mi11tsraf Kf site of suhdret - z t;----- b« borrowed from the Department of Army for our review. From records available to 1---- us we believe he e”
“conscious. Subject demonstrated good security techniques while 8 reporting on the activities" of Roberto ALEJOS concerning the attempted coup against Guatemala.. ;7. An FBI report of 30 September 1965 outlines the contacts that had been made by some Americans seeking to pur”
“14-00000 13. London 6140 (IN 16675) 13 October 1966, stated: Roberto arrived from Madrid 27 August 1966. Landing card indi cated Roberto born 12 April 1931, Lasvillas, Cuba. Carries passport EF/66/2258, issued 23 August 1966. Roberto said would stay in UK for one or two mo”
“14-00000 S I: C RET and C. ..: : .• Officer of a weapons platoon in a Ranger i^ndi... ;:.• the latter function, POSADA would very likely ! :cerved demolitions training. In March 1965 i - wa recruited by the Agency to serve as a. Maritre : Branch instructor-in Florida. Inf”
“1 4-00000 OUTGOING MESSAGE 4. $0*4 CIv e vsf O, tei ed4 set tor aco roo 54 wed or rants ONF 0 t^l^tUT^. 0 0 0 0 □ 0 DC T SECRET .I..*.!manouve indideron Dave M ecovr am wanaene naesegwca women as CIA CONF: INFO: FILE 115000 0- 0 wo woes DISSEM BY: 0 wrruan to”
“NOTES 1. In a Spanish questionnaire of Personal Information made out in 1961, Subject listed his brother Raul POSADA-Carriles as an administrator of the Marianao Electric Company as a relative in some government service. He did not list his brother Roberto in this section, ”
“SECRET .SENSITIVE 5- arrested in November 1974. Posada was formerly chief of the counterintelligence division of the Venezuelan intelligence service, DISIP. b. Relationship with US. CIA says that Posada was a paid informant. The relationship was discontinued in July 1967”
“INFORMATION TO WHICH HE HAS ACCESS. THIS DOCUMENT CONSISTED OF A LIST OF CUBAN EMBASSY OFFICIALS IN CARACAS, BIOGRAPHICAL DATA AND ADDRESSES FOR THESE INDIVIDUALS, AND VARIOUS SUNDRY INFORMATION ON JAMAICA, GUYANA, PANAMA, AND ANGOLA. WE DID NOT ACCEPT THE DOCUMENT FOR TRANSM”
“Luis POSADA Carriles. Posada is a former salaried agent of the Agency. He is a Cuban exile, naturalized Venezuelan, who was formerly head of the counter-intelligence divis:n of the Venezuelan civilian’ security service, Posada lore, his job with the security service in March ”
“man between the Agency and RECE. In August 1967 POSADA moved to Caracasand secured a position with DIGEIC!, the Venezuelan security service (now known as DIS!P). The Agency's Caracas Station hired POSADA as an informant on DIGEPOL/DlSIP activities, with secondary use as a so”
“contact with any other intelligence service. 2. LIST OTHER INDIVIDUALS (Agents, relatives, friends) mo KNOW OF SUBJECT'S PRESENT TELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES. Dolores CUEVAS de EYCHENNE Subject’s brother, Leonel, resident in Mexico Jose CARRAL Escalante LITAMIL-3 probably suspects”
“itizen during 1962. The file has been prepared for review by the HSCA but has not yet been reviewed. Luis Alberu Suoto OS File #279 089 reflects opera- tional interest in this Cuban citizen intermittently from 1962 until 1968. He was at one time of interest as a penetration of th”
“2- 0002331 orpnE1 SEGRe1 in Gantemala on October 1961 he took with the Firestone a Lalawith T Ohio He stayed at this Akra job until March of 1963. 1963- the An Februa CIA put into 963 motion 21 the be 0 Chinery G. VV for an interview of Posada. necessa I(o3 In M”
“14-00000 OUTGOING MESSAGE: maex Go was an w onf 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 SECRET 64 cuds CXA COM: W0: »M .• 115000 0 D so sem MU* »»> I van PUBLICATION AnZ60 DEL PUEBLO" 5% 9F RAV 3966.9 307953307 % , %. FRANK TEIRA IS POSSIBLY IDEATICAL WITH FRANCISCO ANTONIO 9a.-853367 •”
“CRET 3- 0002332 Don FIOThe INTERVIEWING That the FBI had No Objection To JthatPanda he j Posada oined Claims JURE at some year point during this 964 U. S Posada left the in March with the rank of 2nd leintenant In September he claims he was employed he the Pan Am Ete Co”
“itizen during 1962. The file has been prepared for review by the HSCA but has not yet been reviewed. Luis Alberu Suoto OS File #2379 089 reflects opera- tional interest in this Cuban citizen intermittently from 1962 until 1968. He was at one time of interest as a penetration of t”
“4- 0002333 ofin Posada's involvement a plot to kill Castro in this year. NOTE: Posada Claims to have been the instrictor for SURE chief camps Los for an three s eais unspecified year the earlyy Go's Additional nal info Aka: Luis Clemente Carriles Bambi Posada Carr”
“ted $50,000. Lucy said he would look into Zabala matter, and arrange to have Zabala contacted in PR. 1/20/77 Anderson columns re Mr. X NW 66000 Docld:32273118 Page 3 VECIANA, Page 3 SEGRET 41111536 6/7/74 560902 101450Z ☐ ☐ Employed with A.I.D., La Paz, Bolivia, ca. 4/68 to 6/30/”
“. -/ 6L0 cuuMnitnem PROCESSING ACTION DIST ATCH SECRET MAHtv for NO to Chiefj Wes tern Hemisphere D1vlaion 00 motrit t.ov00 000, FroM - supic Chief of Station, Caracas Haul and Roberto POSADA Carriles ACTION HQUIRID.unemss SL 01 *J««BMW (M *000 Mme ecnofRm No#0 1”
“14-00000 s 0 Jhx MSA We% 9918162, HBArkceSFitieb*4*24439233xtsire1 C.STR: MeSS/*v: ACTIONS DATE 2SAPR64 9 -3 7 -3 2 /4 BNRD: SECR E T -id UM2 S’ERRED PIORITY j oPtRATiAt,! l-i-o 2522492 : 9605 RRRRRRRR|IMHO1P LFK TO IMMEDIATE OTTA WAVE MEXI SALV GUAT TEGU ST DI”
“activity in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations, etc. Espinosa displayed a photograph of (First Name Unknown) Mellado and asked source if he recognized him. Mellado was described as male, of Caucasian race, who appeared to be Cuban, 32-35 years old, husky build, dar”
“{Aqeni», Dolores CUEVAS de EICHERE Subject's brother, Leonel, resident in Mexico Jose CARRAL Escalante LITAMIL-3 probably suspects Subj is in contact with 3. EXPLAIN AN TRAINING SUBJECT HAS HAD 1% CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS. Subject has not had any ornal training in clandestin”
“ilable data on the individual. NW 66000 Docld:32273519 Page 6 : Cuban-American. page 5 the same Inte Also on Decmeber 5, 1963, CIA headquarters cabled the Mexico City Station and identified this Cuban-American as Gilberto Policarpo Lopez, who was born on January 26, 1940. 14/ It ”
“FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56). .""‘•4 0 FBI Date: 8/27/58 i 1 AJT, INFORMATIONIONIA CUED Transmit the following in AIRTEL POR, N (Type in plain text or code) HE HN Via CIA HAS NOAER MAIN TO VIERWISE1• DECLASSIHUATISH xriDion, (Priority or Method of Mailing) — - REL- : *T.6.O”
“PRESENT InTELLIGENCE ACrIVITiEs. Dolores CUEVAS de EYCHENNE Leonel ALBERU Jose CARRAL Escalante LITAMIL-3 probably suspects LITAMIL-9 is still engaged in intelligence activities. 3. EXPLAIN any TRAINING SUBJECT HAS NAB IN CLANDESTINE gPEeatioes. Subject has not had any for”
“SECRET 28 August 1967 MEMORANDUM FOR: CI/OA ATTENTION : Mr. Lally SUBJECT : Traces on Luis ALBERU-Couto 201-329609 REFERENCE : CI/OA Memorandum dated 15 June 196 1. ver wwrr referenced request, the FBI documents were located and reviewed with the following results: a. The”
“SECRET -5- - C002334 3 SS # 265-72-1345 4 US Army #C-2312445 5 US Army dossier # 265-17-1345 WAS IN CoNTACt Posada associates mi th with one 6 "Lefty" Rosenthal in Miami 7 Posada excellentclaims to Marksman be an Good Cesear Diasdado DOB 8/16/21, Lorado, Texas WIT”
“4-00000 S-LAL ***** 998 owL, ce tes men 06 onr c act; 06P 9 *• 0 0 0 0 0 D ?. SECRET ,ve*SA09 mavoueme-cavon bate tree ecoun N./78 meetans • rensuce kwese ‘ CIA - CONF INTO: FILE 115000 0 post O momess DISSEM BY: 0 actunn vo PER H/1 MARTINEZ. SOURCE BELIEVED TH”
“LA but s oet whom a CIA the has been asserted, by themselves or othere. 2. Graap in the first catego ry consists of present or former DDP contacta. Group 2 consists of present or former DCS contacts. Grou; 3, as was axted above, constate of Impostors and of othate who have had no”
“DIEGUEZ ALSO SAID THAT DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT RAFAEL (CALDERA), POSADA WAS A FAIRLY HIGH RANKING OFFICER IN THE DIRECTORATE OF SERVICES OF INTELLIGENCE AND PREVENTION (DISIP). THE WAS DISMISSED FROM THIS POSITION WHEN CARLOS ANDRES (PEREZ) BECAME . PRES”
“14-00000 SEChal 5 205 IRD 172401 IDENTITY LIST IDEN A Luis Clemente POSADA Carriles greteme IDEN B DIGEPOL IDEN C Lefty ROSENTHAL 9 PCailg IDEN D Roberto xge*PXHSEC1Ir"LAIIt IDEN I Raul IDEN F Maria IDEN Castro’s Intelligence service *2 *0 5 IDEN H Angeli”