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Desmond FitzGerald Cable Vets a Former DRE Member Seeking CIA Employment in Lima, 1963

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AMBARB/22 was the CIA cryptonym for a former member of the exile network seeking direct CIA (KUBARK) employment in Lima; this cable checks whether he had settled his financial and property accounts before proceeding.

A station comment notes that before leaving Lima, AMBARB/22's wife had taken a typewriter and camera that belonged to the DRE Cuban exile organization.

Public-Interest Summary

A February 1963 CIA cable from headquarters to the JMWAVE and Lima stations, signed by Western Hemisphere Division chief Desmond FitzGerald, asking whether an individual codenamed AMBARB/22 had fully resolved his financial and property accounts with the CIA-linked Cuban exile network before his wife left Lima, after AMBARB/22 contacted his wife's U.S. home-state Congressional representative to arrange a KUBARK (CIA) employment interview. A station comment notes that prior to departure, AMBARB/22's wife had taken with her a typewriter and camera belonging to the DRE exile organization. The cable is a small but genuine window into the CIA's practice of vetting former exile-network members for direct Agency employment, and the routine property and accountability disputes that could arise when operatives transitioned out of exile organizations.

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Desmond FitzGerald Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil Lima 14 February 1963

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https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/104-10170-10105.pdf

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CIA Cuba & Castro Files

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