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Cryptonym: ROMEO

Definition:

An operation in the early 60s in the files of AMMUG-1, a Cuban defector that surfaced in early 1964.

Status:

Documented

Sources:

1994.05.31.15:09:29:340005 - Reel 22, Folder F - AMMUG FOLDER 40.

4/62 document from Teobaldo (Technical Department) to Section (M.M.) Ulises on a book entitled "The Child From One to Five Years" to be delivered to Francisco Tabar in El Salvador. The next page has another book to be delivered in a similar fashion, except the "treated pages" are noted. Pages 3-5 address the three operational files brought out by AMMUG-1 - Romeo, Zapote and Valladares.

1994.06.01.09:19:57:500005 - Reel 22, Folder Z - AMMUG "ROMEO CASE" FOLDER 21

1962-early 1964: 29 pages of the Romeo case - entirely in Spanish. Page 6 provides a biography of Jose Manilo Argueta. A range of documents and communications spanning from mid-1962 to early 1964.

A Record from Mary's Database Record: AMMUG-1

1964: AMMUG-1 had a folder on the "Romeo case" as well as the Zapote case.

1994.05.31.15:04:32:060005 - Reel 22, Folder D - AMMUG-1 -

Jose Manlio Argueta (#19) is listed with 'Caso Romero'. Jose Humberto Carrillo (#31) is listed with 'Caso Zapote', as is Roque Dalton Garcia, a member of the Central Committee, PCNS. See Reel 22, Folder F, p. 7 - Jose Manlio Argueta Canas/probably AMCLOCK-1 was deported to Nicaragua. Also deported was Tomas Guerra Rivas. Both men were from El Salvador.