3 September 1963
DEBRIEFING REPORT: Santiago SANCHEZ de la Torre - aka "Jose Antonio"
DATE & PLACE: Safehouse #182, 29-30 August (0900 - 1300 hrs)
CASE OFFICER: Clarence E. SMERAYAGE

1. Subject began to work against the CASTRO regime with the MRP in 1960. At that time he was employed in the Santa Clara power plant as a technician. His job was controlling the amount of electric current that was distributed. (Attachment "A" contains a list of Subject's friends currently employed in power plants in Cuba.) On 17 April 1961 Subject made contact with - KRAMER infiltration team and began to assist the team. Team consisted of SEGUNDO RODRIGUEZ, PROSPERO GONZALEZ, and AMADOR. Case Officer Comments: AMADOR has confirmed the fact that Subject worked with this team in Cuba. Subject permitted the team to install their S-1 set in his house located at #219 Carretera de Camajuani in the city of Santa Clara. He also assisted the team on occasion and permitted them to hold meetings at his house. After the failure of Playa Giron the team reorganized the MRP in Las Villas Province, selecting Subject to be the Civil Coordinator of the movement in that province. Enrique ORTEGA and Subject were in Havana for discussions with MRP leaders - RAMIRO and JUAN FALCON, the KUBARK infiltration team and many other members of the MRP in Las Villas, including Subject's wife, were arrested. (Discussions were about actions to take place 26 July 1961.)

2. Maria RODRIGUEZ Posal, from Santa Clara, age 50/55 yrs, called Subject in Havana and told him not to return to Santa Clara as many people had been arrested. ORTEGA passed the information to Subject but as Subject thought it applied only to ORTEGA he returned to Santa Clara by train on 21 July. He went to his home and on 23 July proceeded to work at the power plant. Maria RODRIGUEZ Posal intercepted him on his way to work and told him that the G-2 was at his home. Subject also learned that there was surveillance on his home on the night of 22 July 1961, but the person watching the house had gotten drunk and did not see Subject when he returned from Havana. From that moment until entering an Embassy on 6 September 1960, Subject lived "blank".

3. Subject proceeded to the outskirts of Santa Clara where a friend, Efrain WARNER, resided. His friend told him to go to Havana. While driving to Havana Subject met another person who informed him that the G-2 had a roadblock on the highway at Colon, Matanzas, and that all cars were being searched. On 24 July 1961, Subject went to a beach called "GUANABO" located on the north coast of Las Villas near Carrillo. Subject's sister has a home at "Guanabo" so he left his car there and proceeded to Havana to seek other friends of his sister. Later the G-2 confiscated his sister's auto at the beach, believed that Subject had been using the auto. (Subject thereafter communicated with his wife by means of her letters in jail at Miami where they were postmarked.)