Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# CLASSIFICATIONS-E-C-R-E-T![Central Intelligence Agency logo]DIRECTORATE OFINTELLIGENCECOUNTRY Cuba/HaitiSUBJECT Possible False Recruitment EffortREPORT NO. 00-A(S)-322/13864-73DATE 26 May 1973NO. PAGES 1REFERENCES## OPERATIONAL INFORMATION REPORTThis report has been prepared by the DOMESTIC CONTACT SERVICE, DDI. The operational information contained herein may not be disclosed to personnel outside of the CLANDESTINE SERVICE, CIA, without the prior permission of the Domestic Contact Service.1.  At 1700 hours on 14 May 1973 the Miami Field Office received a telephone call on the listed line from an individual who ultimately identified himself as Rolando Masferrer. It is believed that Masferrer is identical with former Cuban senator and Batista associate Rolando Masferrer Rojas who is of dubious reputation and is well known for several nefarious actions in Haiti, Guatemala and perhaps elsewhere. Rolando Masferrer was convicted of conspiracy to invade Haiti in 1967. It is believed that there are extensive Agency files on Rolando Masferrer.2.  Masferrer was very reluctant to provide details, but finally said he could be reached at local telephone 261-3689. A separate check reveals this number to be registered to Deniel Bermudez, 6080 W. Flagler, Apartment #17.3.  In any event the listed line caller indicated that he had been approached by one Guillermo Iglesias and asked to engage in certain activities which he did not further describe. According to Masferrer, Iglesias carried credentials or other identifying material which seemed to link him with the U.S. Coast Guard in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Masferrer said, however, that Iglesias indicated also that he was in some way representing the Central Intelligence Agency. Masferrer then said that the purpose of the telephone call was to check on the bona fides of Guillermo Iglesias.4.  Masferrer was told that the name Guillermo Iglesias meant nothing to the Miami Field Office and was otherwise given a rather non-committal response.- end -CLASSIFICATIONS-E-C-R-E-TClassified by: 007622Exempt from general declassification schedule of E.O. 11652, exemption category:5B(2). Impossible to determine date of automatic declassification.
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CONFIDENTIALChief, Washington Field Office 12 July 1972Director, Domestic Contact Service (083)A-168846 A-168762Rolando Masferrer Jr., Military Armament Corporation, Powder Springs, GeorgiaREF : Van Fapper/Musulin teleconsA. 127900.1. Attached per referent telephone conversations is copy of Dun and Bradstreet report as requested on Military Armament Corporation, headquartered in Powder Springs, Georgia. Please note that Chairman of the Board, is Mitchell Livingston Werbell, III. Werbell is a former Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer known to this writer during assignments in China during WWII.2. This Agency, as well as other government agencies, have considerable information on Werbell. He is an old and unsavory, unsolicited, contact of the Miami Field Office dating from 1959. He is of dubious character and reputation who had and has been involved in grandoise schemes and international arms deals. He has had perpetual financial difficulties.3. Werbell was involved with Rolando Masferrer Senior, in connection with the abortive Haitian invasion in 1967. This may throw a different light on possible source development of young Rolando Jr. Any approach to him should be executed with some degree of caution. We do not desire to get involved with Werbell. However, we cannot foresee any objection to planned debriefings of Masferrer Jr., following his trips to Latin America and other areas, in pursuit of FPI and possible information of operational significance.4. If we can be of further assistance in this matter, please advise.JAMES R. MURPHYAttachmentCStusulin/lldcc: Services Division: (Control)FILED: EE 23880CONFIDENTIALAUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON APPROVAL OF DCICLASSIFIED BY 42-1445EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULEOF E. O. 11652. EXEMPTION5B(1), (2), (3) or (4) (state one of more)WARNING NOTICESENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCESAND METHODS INVOLVED
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Chief, Washington Field OfficeDirector, Domestic Contact Service, OSSRolando Masferrer, Jr. - Possible Source Lead16 June 19721. Attached for your information and whatever interest you may have in this source lead from WH/3/Venezuela2. On the basis of the information submitted,3. Suggest you arrange contact to obtain routine biographic data to initiate security checks; determine his intelligence potential and explain the DCS mission, without revealing in any way the past relationship with Mr. Peterson. Subject's personality profile appears to be very interesting.4. It appears that the Clandestine Service is not repeat not interested in subject's operational potential at this time. We leave this in your capable hands to determine what course of action you may wish to contemplate in this matter.JAMES MURPHYGSMusulin/daacc: Services Division (Control)Filed: HH 23880
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# SECRETChief, Washington Field Office 28 June 1972Director, Domestic Contact Service (OSS)Rolando Masferrer Jr., Possible Source LeadREFERENCES: A) Memorandum for the Record dated 12 June 1972; Same SubjectB) Van Eapper/Musulin telecon1. In regard to referent telephone conversation of recent (un/2/Sanala) for additional   assessment information on Rolando Masferrer, Jr., Vice-President of Sales, Military Armament Corporation, Headquartered in Georgia.2. Jeffrey Peterson is a young "career trainee" who has been with the Agency for about six months. He met Masferrer in Miami, Florida, where both belonged to a Florida National Guard Unit. Peterson knows Masferrer socially as well having met frequently for "snacks and beer".3. According to Peterson, based on his observations, subject is a personable, intelligent, individual who appears trustworthy, and of sound mind and judgment. He is a solid citizen completely assimilated in the American mainstream; intensely interested in the U.S. political processes. Politically, he is of moderate conservative persuasion. He is an astute businessman of demonstrated ability and integrity. To highlight this point, Peterson mentioned that Masferrer spurned lucrative case offers for "under the table" deals to engage in illegal weapons trade in Latin America. He refused these offers to operate in legitimate business circles.4. Young Rolando takes a sociable drink; has no known bad habits. He has a keen eye for attractive females, but no more so than all healthy males. Peterson said he would not hesitate to recommend subject for a position of trust and confidence.5. Rolando Masferrer, Jr. served with the Green Berets, elite U.S. Army unit whose members require special security clearances by the military.6. Peterson underlined his previous statement that Rolando should not be confused with his father, Rolando Arcadio Masferrer y Rojas, a former Cuban Senator who was leader of the notorious "Los Figars", the dreaded army of enforcers under Batista.# SECRET![redacted image]
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SECRET-2-7. Peterson believed, and we are inclined to agree, that Rolanio Jr., may be a good candidate for source development. He will be located at 905 L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, D.C., as the representative of Military Armanents Co. He will also represent Parabellum Corporation another military weapons firm.8. Dun and Bradstreet reports ware requested from New York and a copy will be forwarded when receivedJAMES R. MURPHYGSatuwalin/11acc: Services Division (Control)FILED: HR 2338023880SECRET
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6 July 1972.MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORDSUBJECT: Rolando Masferrer, Jr.1. On Monday, 3 July 1972, from 2100 to 2400 hours at Clyde's Bar, Washington, D.C.; and Tuesday, 4 July 1972, from 1300 to 1600 hours, poolside, 7625 Metera St., Apt. 201, Falls Church, Virginia, the undersigned talked with Rolando Masferrer, Jr.2. I mentioned to Masferrer that my superiors (supposedly in the State Department) were interested that some responsible U.S. Government authority be informed of his story regarding U.S. citizen involvement in drug trafficking and guerrilla training in Mexico. Masferrer said that last February he told the story up to that date to Miami, F.B.I. Agent Bob Dyer, and also certain information to U.S. Customs Bureau Agent Buchanan (fnu). Masferrer said he had not informed any government entities of events subsequent to February. I mentioned that such information was not necessarily within the unique purview of the State Department, but that my superiors would probably be interested in anything further.3. Rolando Masferrer, Jr., related to me four different occasions when an insurgent organization, "Force Seven", comprised of American adventurers in Mexico, was brought to his attention.4. The first time the Subject heard of "Force Seven" was from Francisco BRAVO (or Brabo) (NFI), Chief of Judicial Police, State of Morelos. Subject had not met Bravo "a few years ago". They met again in Atlanta, Georgia, late December 1971, when Bravo came for a weapons demonstration at the Military Armament Corp, Powder Springs, Georgia, some 20 miles outside Atlanta. Bravo told Masferrer of the insurgency problem in the Mexican states of Morelos and Guerrero. Bravo mentioned the existence of "Force Seven". Bravo indicated his police> WARNING NOTICE> SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES> AND METHODS INVOLVEDCLASSIFIED BY 51-1391SECRETEXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION SCHEDULEOF E. O. 11652. EXEMPTION CATEGORY:5(1), (2), (3) or (4) (circle one or more)23880:
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needed weapons to fight the insurgents and subsequently invited Masferrer and Anselmo Alliegro (son of a former Cuban Senator, naturalized citizen, and Masferrer's partner in Farabella Corporation) to come to Mexico. Bravo promised to introduce Masferrer and Alliegro to Mexican police authorities competent to purchase firearms.5. Subject again heard the name "Force Seven" in Miami, January 1972. Aliro CUEVAS FIGAROA, former First Vice-President of the Guatemalan Congress. [Castaneda was head of the Guatemalan civilian counter-insurgency forces in the Zacapa region during 1957-63, and, according to Masferrer, the chief of the Mano Blanco. Castaneda was killed 12 June 1972. The Guatemalan insurgent group, F.A.R., "took credit" for the killing.] Castaneda was travelling to the U.S. with Messers. Sandoval and Figueroa. [Probably Mario SANDOVAL Alarcon, President of the Guatemalan Congress and head of the M.L.N. party; and Alvaro CUEVAS Figueroa, Castaneda's predecessor as First Vice-President of Congress. Several TOCS reports during January and February 1972 indicated Cuevas Figueroa was trying to smuggle arms from the U.S. to Guatemala supposedly for a planned coup in Costa Rica] Masferrer said Castaneda was trying to arrange the release from U.S. Federal prison Rolando Masferrer, Sr. Castaneda wanted Masferrer, Sr., to emigrate to Guatemala to become involved in state security matters and also to organize an anti-Communist army. Castaneda mentioned to Masferrer, Jr., the growing insurgency problems in the Peten area of Guatemala. Castaneda mentioned that U.S. insurgents operating under the name "Force Seven" entered the Peten from Mexico. The Guatemalan Army's Mariscal Zavala Brigade had been dispatched from Guatemala City to the Mexican border in Peten province to counter the infiltration, but had recently been shifted to the border adjacent British Honduras. Masferrer said Castaneda believed that former U.S. "Green Berets" were involved with the insurgents. Castaneda said that a list of all U.S. Special Forces-trained Guatemalans had disappeared when the U.S. military training mission was terminated. Now the guerrillas in Guatemala are pinpointing those U.S. trained, local military personnel with uncanny accuracy. From that evidence, Castaneda believed that "Force Seven" must include some of the U.S. "Green Berets" that had originally trained the local Guatemalan military.SECRET23884
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6. During the first three months of 1972, Subject made two trips to Mexico. During his first grip, three weeks in late January and February, Masferrer travelled with Alliegro and Mitchell WerBell (Mitchell Livingston WerBell III, 201-250010, former 645 Maber in C-3-1 in World War II; former President of Military Armament Corporation; and presently associated with Defense Systems Incorporated, Powder Springs, Georgia.) In Mexico City, Francisco Bravo introduced him to Mexico City Police Chief Santos (Daniel Gutierrez Santos) and Miquel NAZAR HARO, "Chief of Political Police". (Actually Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service, DFS, a political and intelligence organisation working within the Secretariat of Government.) During conversations Nazar admitted Mexico's insurgency problems and specifically named "Force Seven". Masferre mentioned that both Nazar and Gutierrez Santos were angry with President Echeverria because of the Mexican Government's policy of light criminal punishment and short prison terms for bandits and/or guerrillas painstakingly captured by the police.7. Bravo took the three to Cuernavaca where he showed them a house on the outskirts of the city that the police used for unofficial detentions and heavy-handed interrogations. Bravo complained that the local Catholic Archbishop was implicated with the insurgents as well as certain U.S. film personalities who vacation in the American community in Cuernavaca. Bravo also implicated a professor that was kidnapped in Guerrero in late 1971. Bravo believed that the professor [Jaime CASTREJON Diez, Rector of the University of Guerrero] actually conspired with the insurgents for his own kidnapping in order to raise the ransom money for the insurgent movement. [The ransom was finally paid by President Echeverria.]8. Subject travelled again to Mexico in March 1972 with Bernardo LE TORRES. (Mexico 2038, 4 December 1969, mentions that LIT-IPO-12, H/MINH, received a phone call from one Bernardo De Torres regarding a supposed Swiss contraband arms dealer in Mexico City.) Nazar had invited Masferrer to return to Mexico to go on a "hunting party", that is, to participate in an actual counter-insurgency operation. Masferrer and De Torres arrived in Acapulco and were met by Bravo. They travelled by police vehicle for about an hour east of Acapulco to an area near La Treintas (NFI).
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Just before they arrived they heard on the police radio that the Army had just "shot down" a twin-engine Beechcraft. When they arrived, a search of the wreckage yielded a few weapons. A short firefight (about 15 minutes) ensued with insurgents that left two soldiers dead. Masferrer said he did not know the number of insurgent casualties. One insurgent was captured along with his .45 caliber pistol.9. The captured insurgent turned out to be a U.S. citizen, white, male, approximately 27 years old. (Masferrer claimed he forgot the prisoner's name, but that he had it in Miami.) Bravo did not trust the Acapulco or the Guerrero state police and had his men take the prisoner to the detention house outside of Cuernavaca. Masferrer said he witnessed the interrogation in which the prisoner's head was repeatedly dunked in a rain barrel to make him talk.The prisoner eventually revealed the following information about "Force Seven": participating Americans were ex-ranger, airborne, Marine or Special Forces types, many with Vietnam combat experience. They were armed with CAR-15 (M-16) rifles and some had M-79 grenade launchers. Other Americans operated elsewhere in Latin America. "Force Seven" provided training to the insurgents, and, whenever possible, supplied weapons. In return, the Americans were paid in money and drugs, mostly marijuana, but some cocaine. Masferrer said no heroin was mentioned. The prisoner said the insurgents used the money from the drug smuggling to finance operations. Bank robberies had become increasingly difficult since the Army began posting armed guards at area banks. The prisoner said he had worked under Genaro VASQUEZ (Mexico's infamous bandit-turned-guerrilla; killed in a car accident last February). The prisoner put guerrilla strength at about 2,000 men. Masferrer, however, said Bravo felt that figure to be high. The prisoner also mentioned that some of the insurgents had previously received guerrilla training in North Korea.10. Masferrer said that later, upon Nazar's orders, the American prisoner was shot and killed. The whole affair was never reported in the local press because, according to Masferrer, such information, if revealed, would damage the area's tourist trade.Jeffrey G. PetersonSECRET
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# SECRET12 June 1972MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORDSUBJECT: Rolando MASFERRER, Jr.1. Please be informed of a possible future contact--Rolando MASFERRER, Jr., recently promoted to Vice-President of Sales, Military Armament Corporation, Washington D.C. office, 905 L' Enfant Plaza, #4020. He is also associated with Parabellum Corporation, another military weapons firm. Subject, born approximately 1945, in Habana, Cuba, is believed to be a naturalized citizen.2. Subject makes frequent sales trips to Latin America. Because he has good access to top Latin American governmental officials and military and security officers. He has personally met many Latin American presidents. He should be a good source of information on the current status of arms sales in Latin America; internal security, military armament levels, order-of-battle, and internal politics in host countries; and, if needed, status of Cuban exile movement. He is presently on a sales mission to Colombia and is scheduled to return in mid-June.3. MASFERRER, Jr. has been a Miami resident since 1959 and more recently lived in Atlanta. He will permanently locate in the Washington, D.C. area when he returns from his Colombian trip.4. Subject is not to be confused with his father by the same name, the infamous Rolando Arcadio MASFERRER y Rojas (201-42669). Masferrer Sr. was a former Cuban Senator and leader of a dreaded private army of Batista enforcers called "Los Tigres (The Tigers)". He is presently serving in a U.S. federal prison for attempting to organize a 1967 invasion of Haiti in order to set up a base of operations against Cuba. Masferrer Sr., violently anti-Castro, was involved in numerous Cuban exile operations against Cuba during the last decade.5. I was Subject's Commanding Officer in the Florida National Guard and sometimes saw him socially while in Miami. Although Cuban by birth, he now feels that he is an American. Politically anti-Communist, he joined the National Guard (while not under duress from the draft) to become a "Green Beret." He is polite and correct in his social relationships. I received a letter from him, 7 June 1972, informing me of his impending move to the Washington, D.C. area. He
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SECRETsolicited my aid in finding a local army reserve unit.6. If you are interested in exploring this possibility further, please feel free to contact me at any time. I could suggest cautions and method of contact or introduction. Subject is unwitting of my Agency employment.![Signature of Jeffrey G. Peterson]Jeffrey G. PetersonWH/3/VOrig. & 2
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORDCc Washington.28 Jul 7216-88-467 July 1972A168846SUBJECT: Assessment of Recruitability - Rolando Masferrer, Jr.Vice-President, Sales, Military Armanent Corporationand Associated with Defense Systems IncorporatedA168762.1. Subject seems to have inherited that particular Latin American penchant for involvement in covert political activities. However, the Subject's involvement is not moreiv Destinatos instead intimately connected with his chosen profession as an arms salesman. Here the phrase "for fun and profit" seems aptly suited. He seems to be a man of action with the ability to exploit an oppor- tunity, rather than a towering intellect.2. Subject has excellent contacts and access in Latin America. This access developed from his extended family, professional appointments, and his involvement with. Cgroups is fastiy 19 well-known (infamous) Grovetout any sectors of Latin America and opens many doors for him (although it also closas others). It should also be mentioned that his family has recently developed a rather checkered association with this Agency. The particular nature of his military products gives his contact with high military, police, and security officials throughout Latin America. He seems to be well versed on the status of various aras deals (both official and under-the-table) in the countries he travels. He has been involved with several Cuban exile political and para-military organizations.3. Politically, Subject is a staunch anti-Communist. This position is probably ingrained from his family, but also reinforced from his various political and professional activities. He has voiced a particular hatred for Cuban Communists. He seems to view them not as respected enemies, but as hated traitors. He is vehemently anti-Castro.
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4. Subject has developed what could be interpreted as a certain patriotism for this country. During conversations he referred a few times to "my country" meaning the U.S. I believe that the fact he volunteered for U.S. military training reflects not only the selfish motives of becoming Special Forces qualified but also a sense of duty. I also believe that his recent statements to me regarding international security matters is not merely empty loquacity but is evidence of his desire to contribute something and become involved in the national interest.5. Subject would need sober briefings on the responsibility of any Agency association as well as subsequent careful handling. He would need to get away from the "Flagler Street Commando syndrome" of visual and verbal bravado. He would need instruction to discern rumor from fact, to identify sources, and to assess the reliability of acquired information.6. I am sure that the Subject is recruitable. The question is what degree of association with the Agency would be appropriate. If the decision is made to approach the Subject, may I suggest that his association be initially limited to Agency briefings and debriefings before and after his trips to Latin America. Once his reliability is established and the accuracy of his reporting is proven then further utilization may be possible. Since his financial situation seems to be secure I am sure he could be handled on a non-pay basis.7. Subject is scheduled to leave on a two-week business trip to Venezuela and Colombia beginning in early August 1972. He claimed to have appointments with a Venezuelan Air Force General and with Venezuelan national security officials in DISIPJeffrey G. Peterson