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CIA Mexico City Cable: An Asset Claims Rapport With Che Guevara, 1963

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The source, described as an employee of Cuba's JUCEPLAN planning board and one of Che Guevara's advisers, claimed to have good personal rapport with both Guevara and Cuban planning minister Regino Boti.

It was released by J.C. King, chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, the same officer who signed several other Mexico City station cables from this period in the archive.

Public-Interest Summary

An 8 October 1963 CIA Mexico City station cable instructing the station to watch travel manifests for the arrival of an agent codenamed AMLONG-1, who was to be met at Mexico City's Reforma Hotel by headquarters case officer Rex G. Pruzyna. A follow-up paragraph reveals the asset is 'allegedly' an employee of JUCEPLAN, Cuba's central economic planning board, and one of Che Guevara's advisers, claiming good personal rapport with both Guevara and Cuban planning minister Regino Boti — intelligence the station considered valuable enough to brief fully once verified. Signed by Western Hemisphere Division chief J.C. King, the cable is a genuine window into CIA efforts to recruit sources with direct access to Cuba's revolutionary leadership through the Mexico City station, in the same period and location where Lee Harvey Oswald was separately visiting the Cuban and Soviet embassies.

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Ernesto Che Guevara J.C. King Regino Boti Rex G. Pruzyna 8 October 1963

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Provenance

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10100-10158.pdf

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