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# CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH## SECRETMEMORANDUM FOR - ACSI, MIAMISUBJECT - INFILTRATION INTO CUBA BY MODESTO ORLANDO CRCZCO BASULTO1. AT ABOUT 1800 HOURS, 29 DECEMBER 1964, MRS. JOSEFINA LOPEZ ANGULO DE OROZCC, WIFE OF MODESTO CRLANDO ORCZCO BASULTO AKA "BEBO", TELEPHONED A CAS SOURCE WHO HAS BEEN FRIENDLY WITH GRCZCC FOR SEVERAL YEARS. MRS. OROZCO ASKED THE CAS SCURCE TO VISIT HER AT HER HOME THAT EVENING.2. THE CAS SOURCE ARRIVED LATER THAT EVENING. MRS. OROZCO ASKED THE CAS SOURCE IF HE KNEW THAT HER HUSBAND HAD LEFT FOR CUBA. CAS SOURCE REPLIED THAT HE HAD HEARD RUMORS TO THAT EFFECT. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT SHE WAS VERY WORRIED ABOUT HER HUSBAND BECAUSE SHE HAD NOT HEARD A WORD FROM OR ABOUT HIM SINCE HE LEFT WITH 2 OTHERS 8 DAYS PREVICUSLY, ON 21 DECEMBER 1964. OROZCO HAD PLANNED TO RETURN IN A WEEK. MRS. OROZCO ASKED CAS SOURCE TO TRY TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT CROZCO THROUGH HIS FRIENDS IN CUBA CAS SOURCE SAID THAT HE WOULD TRY SINCE HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN A GOOD FRIEND OF HIS BUT THAT HE WOULD NEED SOME CETAILS OF THE PROPOSED TRIP TO HELP HIM IN HIS INVESTIGATIONS.3. MRS. OROZCO SAIO THAT HER HUSBAND HAD GONE INTO CUBA ΤΟ RESCUE JOSE VASQUEZ NEREY AND 3 OTHERS WHO WERE HIDING IN THE HOME OF AWOMAN NAMED GLORIA CABRERA WHO LIVED AT NO.72 27TH STREET BETWEEN **N' AND '0", ΑΡΓ. 3, VEDADO, HAVANA. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT THE ADDRESS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO OROZCO BY HORTENSIA ORIZONDO MENESES /ACSI SCURCE NO. 180/. MRS. OROZCO ADDED THAT BOTH SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAD KNOWN GLORIA CABRERA IN THE SIERRA MAESTRAS AND THAT SHE/MRS. CROZCO/ DID NOT TRUST HER BECAUSE SHE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY WITH THE REGIME UNTIL ONLY A FEW MONTHS AGO".4. MRS. OROZCO TOLD CAS SOURCE THAT HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN VISITED ABOUT FIVE TIMES BETWEEN MID-NOVEMBER AND MID-DECEMBER 1964 BY A PUERTO RICAN WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS JORGE. IT WAS "JORGE, ACCORDING TO MRS. OROZCO, WHO TOLD HER HUSBAND OF THE PLIGHT OF JOSE VASQUEZ NEREY. DURING THE SECOND OR THIRD MEETING, "JORGE MENTIONED THE NAME OF HORTENSIA", LATER IDENTIFIED AS HORTENSIA ORIZONDO MENESES, AND, AGAIN ACCORDING TO MRS. CROZCC, ORIZONDO WAS FROM THAT TIME OROZCO'S CONTACT IN THE VASQUEZ AFFAIR. ALTHOUGH JORGE DID NOT AT ANY TIME REPRESENT HIMSELF AS CIA, MRS. OROZCO ASSUMED THAT HE WAS SENT BY CIA. THIS ASSUMPTION SHE PASSED ON TO CAS SOURCE. JORGE NEVER IDENTIFIED THE ORGANIZA- TION WHICH HE REPRESENTED BUT HE DID TELL MRS. CROZCO THAT HE WAS NOT FROM CIA. JORGE DID, HOWEVER, CONTINUE TO REPRESENT HIMSELF AS HAVING OFFICIAL BACKING FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. "JORGE WAS DESCRIBED AS 5' 6" TO 8", MEDIUM BUILD, DARK BROWN SLICKED-BACK HAIR WITH NO PART, DARK BROWN EYES, CLIVE COMPLEXION, ABOUT 33 YEARS OLD, AND SPEAKING NEAR-PERFECT SPANISH.5. THE CAS SOURCE REMARKED THAT A TRIP OF THIS NATURE REQUIRED A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY AND SUPPLIES. WHO HAD HELPED OROZCO TO GET THE BOAT, TO EQUIP IT AND FUEL IT AND TO PROVIDE THE OTHER NECESSITIES? MRS. OROZCO REPLIED THAT THE FINDING, EQUIPPING AND READYING OF THE BOAT HAD BEEN HER HUSBAND'S RESPONSIBILITY BUT THAT CRIZONDO HAD PROVIDED THE FUNDS. IAS WILL BE SEEN BELOW, THIS ALLEGATION THAT ORIZONDO WAS THE PAYMASTER FOR OROZCO'S TRIP IS SUPPORTED BY A SIMILAR STATEMENT BY ANOTHER CAS SUB-SOURCE TO WHOM OROZCO TALKED QUITE FREELY ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE/.