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Record:

CATLETT DE MORA, ELIZABETH (BETTY MORA)

Sources:

CD 794; CD 979; CIA 368-727; CIA 375-155; CIA 421-758; CIA 1394-1077, CIA Box 17, Folder 56 VIII (MMF 1451)

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Comments:

All or part black. A sculptress. Married Charles White and moved to Mexico in 1939. Came to US and divorced White. Returned to Mexico in 1946 and married Francisco Mora, a painter and fellow Communist. She became a naturalized Mexican citizen on 8/6/62. She was a member of PTCC and a friend of Che Guevara. Travelled to Cuba on Dec. 30, 1962, on "courtesy passport No. 7864". Associated with Vincent Lee while in Cuba and returned to Mexico City with him on 1/21/63. Her "close friend" told CIA that she was called to the Cuban Embassy and told to forget that she saw Vincent Lee in Cuba in December 1962 and January 1963. DOB: 4/15/19; POB: Washington, DC. See "Mora" for more information.

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