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2(9) In early 1962, with CIA instructions through Guantanamo, Jorge Luis CuervoCalvo reorganized several groups into the "Union de Unidades Revolucionarias"(UDUR). A meeting was held to plan an uprising and discuss arrangements whichhad been made to receive equipment through Guantanamo. CIA was pressingboth attempts against Castro and staged acts of agression against Guantanamo.Calvo outlined "Plan Z" - a scheme to kill Foreign Minister Raul Roa, andthen attack other Cuban leaders who would attend the burial. The authors"of the plan are listed as Cay Hernandez and Cay Gispert and members of theDRE organization headed by Julio Hernandez Rojo, listed as a CIA agentinfiltrated into Cuba. Weaponry included a double-barreled shotgun,explosives, grenades, and demolition timing devices, one labeled "BlockDemolition, M5 A1."In 1963 another consolidation of groups was carried out with CIA direction fromabroad through agent Nino Diaz. The umbrella group was "Resistencia CivicaAnticomunista" (RCA), and it incorporated the "Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional"(ELN), "Movimiento de Recuperacion Revolucionaria" (MRR), and "AgrupacionMontecristi," among others. The overall objective, as instructed by the CIA,was to create the impression of a strong internal resistance to Castro, and toinspire a decision for armed intervention at the meeting of OAS presidents. Again,instructions came through Guantanamo.(10) March 13, 1963, the RCA initiated a plan to assassinate Castro from a housenear the Univeristy of Havana, by firing a mortar. People arrested includedSamuel Carballo Moreno, identified as a CIA agent. Attacks were to be madesimultaneously on the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution and onNational Revolutionary Militia sites. Bazookas, mortars and machine gunswere taken.(11) April 7, 1963, the RCA developed a plan involving sixteen men armed withpistols and fragmentation grenades, who were to attack Castro at the LatinAmerican Stadium. Those arrested were Enrique Rodriguez Valdes (known as"Mulgado"), Ricardo Lopez Cabrera, Onorio Torres Perdomo, and Jorge CarlosEspinosa Escarles.(12) July 26, 1963, the RCA grouping planned to assassinate the Minister of theArmed Forces, Raul Castro, at Revolution Square during the 26th of Julycelebration. Leading those groups involved in the plot was Ibrahim MachinHernandez.(13) September 28, 1963, another group was formed through a relationship withCIA agent Pierre Owen Diez de Ure, who was a French citizen living inCuba. Their plan was to dynamite sewage pipes under the presidential palace.de Ure confessed that he had been working for and giving information to theCIA for a period of two years.(14) March, 1964, a plan to assassinate Castro by Mario Salabarria Aguiar, a"gangster," who had contacts with the CIA through its agent Dr. BernardoMilanes Lopez, who sought support in Spain from Tony Varona and Juan Bosch,listed as friends of Salabarria. The CIA gave Salabarria weapons and "greatsums of money" for a scheme which involved installing a 30 or 50 calibermachine gun in a vehicle and waiting for Castro to pass by.(15) Mid-1964, another plan to assassinate Castro was formulated by members of"Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional," part of the RCA block controlled by theCIA. The effort involved CIA agents Alberto and Ramon Grau Sierra, membersof a network headed by Ramon and Maria Leopoldina Grau Alsina, who attemptedto poison Castro in 1965. The mid-1964 plan called for throwing grenadesat Castro at the Latin American Stadium. Nine men were involved.September, 1964, members of "Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional" (ELN) and "FrenteInterno de Liberacion" (FIL), who had been engaged in intelligence for the CIA,began, under CIA instructions, to seek unification.