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13 December 1967
SUBJECT: BATISTA, Laureano
ALLEGATION:
(See also DAVIS, Rudolph Richard)
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 men 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 on
20 February 1960 for use as a
PP Agent, Havana, Cuba.
SOURCE:
Memorandum No. 5, Enclosures 3'
and 7.
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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 PP agent in Havana, 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 Democrata 
Cristiano is addressed to Major General Bela K.
KIRALY, 
President, Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, Inc., and
offered 
the services of the MDC in arranging meetings and discussions
with other 
anti-CASTRO organizations and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters.
The 
Hungarian Freedom Fighters were (Agency sponsored and Covert Action 24
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 Police
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.
Some of the names of these men were as follows: Victor
PANEQUE, Leodorino INTERIAN, Fernando FERNANDEZ, and fnu FORNES.
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