JMWAVE Officer BAlmes “Barney” HIDALGO

BALMES NIEVES HIDALGO Jr.
Amid nineteen-nineteen he was born in Havana and lived in the capital of Cuba until the middle of the next decade. Balmes’s family immigrated to America during the nineteen twenties and he was raised in New York City. He enlisted with the US Army infantry during the early nineteen forties and by the end of the decade was an undercover FBI agent. As nineteen fifty-one passed Hidalgo became a CIA agent within Panama and simultaneously was employed by the Department of Defense. The following year he was a contract agent for the Agency and became a staff employee amongst nineteen fifty-five.

HiDalgo Following His CIA Retirement

Balmes “Barney” Hidalgo reportedly participated in forming of the CIA supported Brigade 2506 and later related Bay of Pigs operations. Amongst the nineteen sixties he undertook anti-Cuban psychological warfare projects as part of Task Force W in Latin America. Hidalgo subsequently was a member of the Special Affairs Staff at Miami’s JMWAVE forward operations base managing counterintelligence operations. The next year he was reassigned to manage JMWAVE counterintelligence operations from CIA headquarters. During the nineteen seventies Hidalgo testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations regarding his associations with certain illegality and related Agency officials. He proved to be quite resistant to specific inquiries regarding his prior Agency duties and told officials espionage is "not a gentleman's game".