Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# CUBA TRIP, ARREST AND DETENTION, 1960(There is no conclusive evidence such as formal memoranda in the file to indicate that this Agency initiated action to send Wiley to Cuba. However, inferences from routing slips, memoranda and expense voucher payments would indicate that this trip was for CIA. Contrary to inferences by SRS officers, there is no indication, again such as a formal memorandum, in the Wiley files that he, under CIA instruction, courted arrest and detention so that he could find out information about the three staff employees who were imprisoned there. This does not preclude that there might not be written notes of such a plan buried in other files. The best indicator is Paul Gaynor's comment on a routing slip to CIA Cover Employee dated 2 February 1970, "His (Wiley's) imprisonment in Cuba was an operation on behalf of FE-TSD-OS-DCI-DDP.")On 9 August 1960, Wiley reported the following information to Morse Allen of SRS concerning his trip to Cuba:Mr. Wiley arrived in Havana the morning of 26 July 1960 and was arrested in Havana at the Libre Hotel at approximately 7:00 p.m. on the evening of 27 July 1960. During the period between his arrival and his arrest, Mr. Wiley stated that he had made no business type contacts and that he had merely wandered about the streets of Havana looking for news items. (Wiley is covered as a correspondent for radio station WOR of New York City plus other newspaper correspondent type coverage.) During this period, Wiley stated he contacted Ruby Phillips of the New York Times and he met and talked with Dave Webber, a stringer for NBC who was staying at the Libre Hotel. In addition, Wiley stated that he had spent a certain amount of time doing nothing but moving about the Libre Hotel. Wiley stated further that during the 26th and on the 27th he had been interviewing delegates to the Latin American Youth Congress then convening in Havana, Cuba. During these interviews, Wiley had acted as a typical newspaperman and had with him a tape recorder which he had brought with him when he came into Cuba and which he had previously registered with the Cuban customs authorities.![received from]- 19 -![secret]
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Wiley stated that the actual arrest came about in the following way. He stated that he had talked with a young man from the United States. The young Cuban who was obviously violently pro-Castro and also had talked with a young man from the United States. The young Cuban had been telling Wiley that everything was fine in Cuba and that it was not a police state and he was conducting his discussion with this young Cuban in more or less routine reported style when all of a sudden a police officer with two others moved to the table where he was sitting and stated that they wanted to talk to Wiley outside. Wiley asked the ranking officer who he was and was told that he was the Chief of the Public Relations of the Youth Congress. However, after some argument, Wiley was forcibly taken outside although not roughed up by the two assistants to the ranking police officer and also taken at the same time was the young Cuban whom Wiley had been interviewing. All these police officers were in plain clothes.Wiley stated that they were placed in a car and taken directly to G-2 Headquarters in the Miromar Section of Havana which is a building between 14th Street and Fifth Avenue and bears the number 1210 (this address known to the United States Embassy). Wiley stated that during the ride in the car to the G-2 Headquarters, he needled the young Cuban who kept insisting that this was not an arrest and seemed shocked by the whole performance. Wiley added that this Cuban, as far as he knows, was dismissed from the prison after a statement had been taken from him by the police the same evening.Wiley stated that he was taken to a reception type of room in the G-2 Headquarters and to his complete amazement some fifteen minutes after he was taken there, into the reception room came Jake Rosen, a well known New York Communist whom Wiley spoke to and positively identified and another U.S. Communist whom Wiley identified as being one of those who was on tour of the Soviet Union with Wiley after he had gone to the Vienna Youth Festival previously. Wiley stated that he could not recall the name of the second Communist but stated he could be identified since Wiley has a photograph of him at his residence. Rosen and this other Communist were dirty and their feet
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covered with mud and he learned later from one of theguards in the reception room that both of these men hadcome from Sierra Maestre where they had been visiting.Wiley said he talked to Rosen and there could be noquestion of his identity. (NOTE: In discussing the iden-tity of these individuals with Wiley, it was agreed that apossible examination of both cases would be in order sincea possibility exists that Rosen and the other Communistwere illegally in Cuba.)Following this short period of time in the receptionroom, Wiley was placed in a cell in the jail about 9 x 15feet long which contained six bunks and 15 other prisoners.Wiley stated that in this cell he met FNU Acosta, a mannamed Costas and Major Gallo Martinez whom Wiley describedas the former Adjutant General of Castro's Army.Wiley stated that after about one hour in the cell,the guards came and took him to another room for interro-gation. On the way to the interrogation room, Wiley statedhe saw Jake Rosen and the other aforementioned man in oneof the inner offices and both seemed in high spirits.Wiley commented that he had learned later from other pri-sonsers that Rosen and this other individual had completerun of the Headquarters and were allowed to make phone callsand Wiley stated that he established through other prisonersthat Rosen had made at least three phone calls; one to theNational Hotel, one possibly to the United States Embassyand one to an unknown private number. Wiley also learnedthat at one of the three numbers Rosen spoke to someonefor about an hour and apparently this someone was knownas "Mike." Wiley stated that he also learned that the twoCommunists were seen with Captain Alvarez of G-2 and wereobserved on most friendly terms with Alvarez and were, infact, reported as being arm in arm with Alvarez. One pri-soner believed that they were talking about Wiley sincethis prisoner overheard the name "Cholly" (ph), the wayCubans referred to Wiley's first name Charles.According to Wiley, the interrogation was conductedby the previously mentioned Alvarez and a Cuban woman whoclaimed that she had been arrested by the FBI recently in
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Miami, Florida, and further claimed that she had beenslapped by an FBI agent. Wiley stated that this womanmentioned the name of the man but he cannot as yet recallthe agent's name. Wiley also believed that the arrest hadoccurred in Miami within the last few months, also no speci-fic date of arrest was mentioned. Wiley stated that Alvarezand the woman both spoke English although not well.Wiley stated that the interrogation was strictly rou-tine. They wanted to know why he was in Cuba, when he hadarrived, had he ever been in Cuba before, who he workedfor, etc. Wiley stated that he worked for radio stationWOR and that he held strictly to his newspaper correspon-dent cover. Wiley stated that Alvarez attempted to talktough at times but Wiley laughed at him and denounced theCuban police, the Cuban military and the Cuban governmentto Alvarez and, in fact, invited Alvarez to do anythinghe wanted to. Wiley stated he bluntly asked Alvarez justwhy he was arrested and according to Alvarez said "wethink you are an FBI spy." Wiley stated that he pointedout the stupidity of Alvarez to his face and that Alvarezfrom time to time became furious during the interrogation.Wiley stated that the interrogation which was com-pletely fruitless lasted about twenty minutes, at theconclusion of which he was given a sandwich and was toldthat he would be released in the morning. Wiley statedthat he demanded that he be allowed to call the U.S. Em-bassy but this was denied. Because of this, Wiley statedthat he wouldn't eat a thing until the U.S. Embassy orone of their representatives had made contact with him.He stated that he took the sandwich and gave it to someprisoners. Wiley stated at the conclusion of this interro-gation he was taken to a different cell which he describedas being about 15 x 15 feet having triple bunks in the celloccupied by 26 other men whom Wiley described as MRR types.Wiley described this cell as filthy, no ventilation, nolights. He stated he spent seven days in this cell and infact went on a hunger strike. He stated he refused to eatanything and touched no food except on the Sunday followinghis arrest after he had been promised his release the fol-lowing morning at which time he had a little soup and someother food. He added however because his release was notforthcoming as agreed, he went on another hunger strike andhad no food until he was released on the following Wednes-day, 3 APSEP 30 1975CIA-22-SECRETINW 50955 DocId: 32203889 Page 25
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Wiley stated that there was no other attempt at interrogation made either directly or indirectly during his stay.. He stated that on Saturday night an official from the U.S. Embassy visited him. Wiley did not know this man's name and Mr. Kessler from the Embassy who has been previously mentioned visited him Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Wiley commented that prior to his release he gave what he regarded as significant information (which will be referred to in the second section of this report) to Kessler, since he thought the information should be surfaced and he could not tell how long he would be kept in the prison. Wiley cautioned the writer at this time the possible compromise of his connections if this information was handled incorrectly.Wiley stated that he suffered no particular harassments while in the prison. He stated that some of the guards talked tough and tried to act tough but Wiley stated he behaved in his completely stubborn and obstreperous manner at all times and refused to cooperate in every possible way. He stated that the regular prison guards were friendly and he had no trouble with them but the special military guards and the army type were the constant subjects of his scorn and hostility. He stated that as a form of annoyance he was told twice that he was going to leave and then after he had prepared to leave, he was told that it was a mistake and that his leaving had been cancelled.Wiley stated that on Friday or Saturday in the morning which had been the 29th or 30th of July he was checked over by a doctor at the prison for fungus infection and because of the fact that he was on a hunger strike and that it was obvious that he was weak from hunger, Wiley said nothing came of this but on Tuesday the 2nd of August, he was taken within the prison to a doctor who immediately sent him to a hospital, address unknown (in Havana), Camp Libertad. At this hospital Wiley was given a check up and he was told he would have to eat. Wiley stated that he would resist any effort to force feed him and he refused to take any food and any medication from a Cuban doctor or Cuban attendant. Wiley said that at the hospital he was placed in a psycho cell with about twelve persons some of whom Wiley thought were political types but most of whom were criminally
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SECRETIinsane. Wiley commented that obviously the prison atten-dants and officials were very worried about Wiley's healthbecause of his refusal to eat and he was constantly beingchecked by various doctors. Wiley stated that he was re-leased from the hospital and was given back all of hiseffects except his tape recorder and his hat. On Wednes-day, 3 August, he was released.Wiley commented that the individuals who were politicalprisoners impressed him very much; they seemed "real men"and were fanatically anti-Castro; most as far as Wiley couldtell were connected with the MRR. He stated the regularguards were obnoxious and were detested by the prisoners.He commented that the G-2 Headquarters, as far as he couldtell, had been in operation somewhat over two months andthat they had probably processed over 5,000 prisonerssince he recalled seeing the number attached to his cardas 5028.Wiley commented that while at the hospital a civilofficer, Rolando Fiallo, came to his cell and acted as aninterpreter. Fiallo told Wiley that he wanted to help himand offered to do anything for him that he could. Accord-ing to wiiey, Fiailo appeared to be a strong anti-Castiotype who had a great desire to come to the United States.Fiallo told Wiley that he had a good friend who was animportant defector from the Cuban Embassy in Mexico.Wiley commented that Fiallo sounded very honest but thathe could not tell whether this man was a plant or not.Wiley stated that while he was in prison, guardsbrought in a man by the name of Leonardo Julio Walter, anArgentine doctor. Wiley stated that he found out that thisWalter had been picked up at the airport as soon as he hadlanded and that when he was placed in the cell with Wileyand the others, the doctor gave the impression of a per-fectly furious individual. According to Wiley, Dr. Walterkept insisting that he was a friend of "Che" Gueverra.Walter was an obnoxious type, according to Wiley, andstated time and time again emphatically that he hated allNorth Americans and in no circumstances would he treatthem medically. Wiley could not understand why this manwas brought into the prison but reported it simply as anincident of interest.
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Set out below are items of particular interest which have been reported in more specific terms by Mr. Wiley to assist Chief, SRS and are set forth below for record:Wiley reported that MRR source who was interrogated said that a man FNU Gorky was a Russian or East German who sits in on all interrogations of political prisoners at the G-2 Headquarters Building. According to Wiley, this man does not speak Spanish and his source could furnish no description.According to Wiley, an MRR source told him that he had received the following information from another MRR man who worked at the place mentioned. This source reported that there were twenty crated MIG fighter planes at the San Antonio "bath" (Wiley could not recall the Spanish word used here). This source stated that this was an air base built by the U.S. Government. The source further reported that he had heard that between 30 and 35 Cuban pilots were presently in Czechoslovakia on a seven months training course getting instructions for flying the aforementioned MIG fighters.Wiley stated that he had given full details concerning the Soviet freighter that had come in with the large crates to Assistant Chief, SRS. Wiley stated that it was most interesting that his source told him that the freighter had come through Cuban customs and into the harbor without any routine harbor clearance and had swung immediately into its berth along side one of the Havana docks. According to Wiley the source was one of the longshoremen who had been impressed to unload this Soviet freighter. The crates unloaded were enormous being 70 feet long approximately. Source also stated that one of the crates had broken but because of the careful packing of whatever it contained, source was unable to identify its contents. According to Wiley, these huge crates were placed on big trucks and were taken to specific areas, each one accompanied by jeeps. Wiley himself could offer no explanation of the crates or what they were made of nor the size or capacity of the trucks that moved these large crates. Apparently Wiley's source could furnish no additional details other than those given to Assistant Chief, SRS.
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Wiley stated that he learned from a former police-man who served under Batista that every G-2 station inHavana had cached 400 Czech machine guns and approximatelytwo million rounds of ammunition. Source told Wiley thathe knew this to be true because he had worked putting theseitems there. Wiley himself definitely discount's this story.Wiley reported that a source had obtained from anothersource who worked at this place that there were 200 Russianor East German (European) technicians at the Baracoa (ph)base.Wiley reported that he had received information thatat Marianu or Marianal there had been observed a number ofpairs of cranes. These pairs of cranes consisted of a largecrane and a small crane which are apparently built togetherand are so designed that they are used for handling oddshaped or unusual sized material. No other details given.Wiley stated that inside the prison cell while he wasfirst incarcerated, he heard that the Cuban police claimedthat they had in prison the head of the sabotage group,the head of the Activist group and the Chief of Financeof the MRR movement in Havana. Wiley stated that he goipretty close to the men in the cell. They apparentlyliked him and in fact talked quite freely to him and thatwhen he mentioned this to several of these individuals, thevarious men did not deny to him the above. Wiley said thatthese prisoners admitted that they were connected with andwere leaders of one of the two major sections of the MRR inHavana.Wiley stated that one of the above mentioned men whosename is Hermando Marchecho claimed that while being interro-gated he was able to see reports which were signed by threeor four individuals which he recognized as double agents inthe ranks of MRR. Marchecho stated that as far as he wasconcerned, the appearance of these names on reports indicatedthat a heavy penetration of the MRR had been made by Castro'sintelligence. According to Wiley, Marchecho was completelydiscouraged by this but nevertheless clearly indicated toWiley that he and his associates and his organization wouldcontinue the struggle against Castro.
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which he could then be considered an expert. Subject has contacted a number of organizations in radio, television, newspapers and magazines who had evidenced an interest in securing from him stories, pictures and taped interviews. Approval for the trip was requested and $3,000 toward financing of this trip. He was to depart toward the end of May and return around the first of August. The memo is initialed "OS/SE" (SE being Sheffield Edwards, Director of Security).Ultimately his travel voucher covering this trip reflected expenses of $4,544.38 with $3,000 advanced and the "balance not claimed." His cover accounting for 7(6)-6/62 lists "Deficit on trip to Asia" 1,544.38 as an expense and is offset against listed income for that period. Besides other countries he was in during the period 5/15 to 8/18/62, he spent 12 days in the USSR and 14 days in Helsinki.In September 1962, Wiley reported on an item from a September 1962 edition of the National Review concerning a statement by Red China's Marshal Chen.Sometime in the fall of 1962, Wiley submitted three reports relevant to a trip he made during the summer of 1967. One report covered reports Wiley made to the U.S. Embassies in 1962, reflecting that after travelling through Sydney, Australia, Wiley contacted Rollard Haggart Bushner, American Embassy, Djakarta, in early June, reporting that the Dutch were preparing to pull out of New Guinea; that in late June Wiley gave a copy of an exclusive interview with President Diem of Vietnam to Robert Francis Krill, a USIS official in Vientiane; and that in late July (1962) Wiley contacted the political section of the American Embassy in Helsinki reporting information he had obtained in Samarkand and Tashkent, Soviet Union. In each case he identified himself only as a newsman who thought he should report interesting information to his government. Wiley also reported to SRS interesting persons visiting the USSR in July 1962, to wit: Cyla Singer and Professor and Mrs. Quincy Wright, who he met in Tashkent; and Douglas A. Dawkins, who he met in Tbilisi. He also formally reported on Ed Leland, who he met in mid-June 1962 on a flight from Phom Penh to Saigon. In addition, he formally reported information he received from an enlisted man at the U.S. Air Station in Peshawar, Pakistan, in early June 1962, concerning overflights by U.S. jets in Southern USSR.
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# TAIWAN AND FAR EAST TRIP - 1964According to a memorandum dated 27 October 1964 from Morse Allen to Chief, SRS, the "Chinat" government offered Wiley a two week, all expense paid, round trip to Taiwan as a result of Wiley's *American Legion* magazine article on Tibet. Wiley will lecture and talk in Taiwan, and his planned departure was on or about 5 November 1964.Allen recommended that Wiley be authorized to proceed in this trip without any outside instruction in targets. Allen further recommended that Wiley be given money in amount of $500 to $1,000 to permit him to take advantage of the "Chinat" trip and make a "free lance" trip through Far East (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia) and return via Manila, P.I.Paul F. Gaynor, Chief, SRS, noted in a slip of paper attached to Allen's memorandum that the Director of Security approved $1.000 advance on 28 October 1964. Wiley acknowledged reccipt of the $1,000 cash on 10 November 1964.On 16 February 1965, an accounting for the above trip was submitted by Wiley and $37.28 of the $1,000 advanced was returned as the unused portion of the advance.In the interim, by 16 November 1964, Wiley had contacted Radio Free Europe in New York on his own, and had been slated to do research on the Far East utilizing RFE files or in conjunction with RFE officials. Wiley was also scheduled to act as a free lance interviewer and reporter during the course of an impending trip to the Far East. Through efforts of SRS, this activity on the part of Wiley was curtailed.
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SECRET# WORLD YOUTH FESTIVAL, ALGIERS - 1965The 9th Communist sponsored WYF, after early speculation as to the probable site at which it would be held, was finally announced for Algeria from 27 July to 6 August 1965. This WYF, however, was cancelled in late June 1965 despite the advance planning and arrangements that had gone into it.An August 13, 1964, memo from Morse Allen to C/SRS, Subject: 9th WYF, concerns what, if anything, SRS and/or Wiley might do regarding the probable holding of a 9th WYF during the summer of 1965. Wiley had several weeks earlier reminded Allen that he, Wiley, had attended the last one at Helsinki and had been active in the "disruption of that festival." Wiley wanted to know if SRS had any planned operations in connection with 9th or had SRS given any thought to setting up some plans. He pointed out that it would take considerable time to exccute plans for another penetration effort. Allen told Wiley that Wiley was coo old and too well known to spearhead any U.S. activities in that direction. Allen said Wiley could, however, organize and direct it, possibly from without the area, if it were decided for SRS to take part. Wiley indicated that he would be perfectly willing to commence working on it and to direct the operations from behind the scenes. Allen asked Wiley to write up and submit a proposal regarding same if he had a chance. Allen suggested to C/SRS that the matter of penetration and a disruptive effort in connection with the 9th WYF be given consideration in the near future.An October 1, 1964, memo for the record by Morse Allen records an interview he had with Wiley on 30 September 1964. One long paragraph titled "Communist Youth Festival, Algiers, July 1965" notes that Wiley had spearheaded anti-Communist attacks on Youth Festivals in Vienna and in Helsinki previously, has disrupted their programs, and has to a considerable extent interfered with their propaganda at these festivals. Because of this, Wiley is interested once again in divisive and disruptive efforts against the Communists in Algiers in 1965. This time Wiley states