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13 December 1967.
SUBJECT: BATISTA, Laureano
(See also DAVIS, Rudolph Richard).
ALLEGATION::
Rudolph Richard DAVIS, Cuban
exile questioned by GARRISON's staff
in connection with a training camp
for Cubans at Lacombe, Louisiana
told the FBI in May 1964 that Laureano
BATISTA, sent him 19 men from Miami in
response to a request from DAVIS in
1963. The ren stayed at a home near
Lacombe, Louisiana,
CIA CONNECTION
Laureano BATISTA, Secretary.
of Military Affairs, Executive -
Committee, Movimiento Democratica
Cristiano (MDC), Miami, was
granted a Provisional Operational
Approval on 30 December 1959
and an Operational Approval o
20 February 1960 for use as
PP Agent, Havana, Cuba)
SOURCE
Memorandum No. 5, Enclosures 3
and 7.
OS INDICES RESULTS:
Subject, a 32 year old Cuban exile, was from a wealthy Cuban
family and in Cuba he was a banker. He was granted a POA in December
1959 and an OA in February 1960 for use as a FP agent in Ravana, Cuba.
A copy of a letter in Subject's file dated 22 November 1963.
signed by Subject as Secretary for Military Affairs, Executive Committee,
Movimiento Democrats Cristiano is addressed to Major General Bela K,
KIRALY, President, Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, Inc., and
offered the services of the NDC in arranging reetings and discussions
24 with other anti-CASTRO organizations and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters.
The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were Agency sponsored) and Covert Action
Staff was interested in information on the MDC before granting approval
for contact between the two organizations.
DETAILS:
During an interview with the FBI in October 1963 in New York
Rudolph Richard DAVIS advised that in January 1961 he was in New York
where he served as coordinator between the MDC and the New York Folice
Department. DAVIS also said that some nineteen men had been sent from
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Miami to New Orleans by Laureano BATISTA in response to a request
by DAVIS for men to work in a lumber business with which he was
connected in Guatemala. The men stayed at a home near Lacombe,
Louisiana. When the FBI seized dynamite and other explosives
nearby, the men became disgruntled and were unwilling to proceed to
Guatemala. So the lumber company paid their fare back to Miami
.
Victor
Some of the names of these men were as follows:
FANEQUE, Leodorino INTERIAN, Fernando FERNANDEZ, and fau FORMES.
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