(toat0n34-t0702 Cut, ‘" “DISPATCH Stern = a | __DEPUTY CHIEF, WH/SA oe bo sROC EG SERED oso OMLY QUALIFIED DESR ; CAN sUbGE mmODURS sae _—_€HLEP OF STATION, JMWAVE = ...___._______. | dare weeyP1C/AMTRUNK/ MHAPRON OP ERAT OS ARDI RG AMI RUNR?% 4 rib Wet ACTION SLQUALD -RUCOBRSSED TO ACSI 19 JANUARY 1965 FY? A, WAVE+7247 B. WAVE-7248 1. TRANSMITTED UNDER SEPARATE COVER VIA FLEXOWRITER JS A COPY OF THE WAVE MEMO TO ACSI AS PRESENTED TO ACSI ON 19 JANUARY 1965. 2. THE **CAS SOURCE’® MENTIONED THROUGHOUT THE MEMORANDUM 1S AMICE*14%. THE **SUB-SOURCE'' IN PARAGRAPHS 11 THROUGH 14 AND THE ¢$SUB-SOURCE'® IN PARAGRAPH 24 ARE THE SAME PERSON, IDEN A OF REFS. 3. LATER DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE PASSING OF THIS MEMORANOUM ARE THAT BOTH THE WIFE OF AMTRUNK-9 AND AMICE-1% HAVE [OENTIFEED t8JORGE'* AND '*TORRES'* AS THE SAME PERSON FROM A PHOTOGRAPH PRO- VIDEO BY ACSE ANDO, PER PARAGRAPH 27, THAT THE WIFE OF AMTRUNKS9 _ {WHO NOW BELIEVES HER HUSBAND TO HAVE BEEN TAKEN PREISONERY [5S EXERTING PRESSURE UPON ACS! FOR ODYOKE TO NEGOTIATE THROUGH DIPLO} MATIC CHANNELS FOR HER HUSBAND'S RELEASE. REPORTEOLY, THE WIFE OF AMTRUNK-9 HAS ASKED FOR AND RECEIVED PERMISSION FROM ‘TORRES?! TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE WIFE Gé GPIDEAL PLEADING HER HUSBAND'S CASE. RRR ta EE ET ARNON ‘AENEAN oherthneontan Ca a ca Se eR een nee a et we cS .- ape errno NG TNE tee eee gtner etna ANDREW K. REUTEMAN ATTACHHENT « USC WAVE MEMO TO ACSI DATED 19 JAN 65 . . . f I . Dis LES if <t .. DISTRIBUTION BY TAPE Gpve-vedipg and Seles eatin CROSS REFERENCE TO ORSPATCR SYREBOL AED NUMBER bare UFGA-19569 22' JANUARY 1965 3 - OC/MI/SA W/ATT CLASSIFICATIONS #QS PLE NUMBER a" SECRET 20|-728707 r NT RO NOAA | NURS Cp HerEAN Pon or 3 tee
io cy t se 53a usd PREVIOUS EOrnOre. ., , Xe CONTINUATION OF ; CRPRTON SION ND MAR DISPATCH | SECRiT CASE ola Tes ATT7O_UFGA=15565 PG 4 MEMCRANCUM FOR - ACSI, MIAMI , SUBJECT - (QNFILTRATION (NTC CUBA BY MODESTC ORLANDO OROZCO BASULTO 1. AT ABOUT 1800 HOURS, 29 DECEMBER 1564, MRS. JGSEFINA LOPEZ ANGULO DE ORCZCC, WIFE OF MCDESTG CRLAHDO ORCZCO BASULTOG AKA '*BEBOT®, TELEPHONED A CAS SOURCE WHO HAS BEEN FRIENOLY WITH GRCZCC FCR SEVERAL YEARS. MARS. OROZCG ASKED THE CAS SCURCE TO VISIT HER AT HER HOME THAT EVENING. @o THE €AS SOURCE ARRIVED LATER THAT CVENING. RS. OROZCO ASKED THE CaS SCURCi FF HE KNEW THAT HER HUSBAND HAO LEFT FOR CUBA, CAS SOURCE REPLIEO THAT HE HAD HEARD RUMORS TO THAT EFFECT. MRS, GROZCO SAID THAT SHE WAS VERY WORRIED ASGUT HER HUSBAND BECAUSE SHE Hal NOT HEARD A WoRO FRG OR AGCUT HIM DENCE HE LEFT wirH 2 OTHERS &2 DAYS PREVICUSLY, CN 21 DECEMBER 1964. OROZCO HAD PLANNED TO RETURN GN A WEEK. HRS. GROZCO ASKED CAS SOURCE TO TRY TO FENO OUT SCHETHING ABCUT GROZCO THRGUGH '"HIS FRIENDS §N CUBA'', CAS SOURCE SAID THAT HE WOULD TRY SINCE HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN A GOCD FRIEND ‘OF HIS BUT THAT HE WOULD NEED SOME CETAILS OF THE PROPCGSED TRIP TC HELP HIM SH HIS IMVESTIGATIONS. 3. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT HER HUSBAND HAD GONE INTO CUBA TO RESCUE u OTHERS WHO WERE HIDING IN THE: HOME OF _A WHO LIVED AT NO BETWEEN HAVANA, MRS, OROZCO SA THE KOURESS- HED BUEN GIVEN 70 OROZCO OY ron woman move /ACSE SCURCE NC. 180/. MRS. OR027C0 f HUSBAND HAD KNOWN IN THE STERRA MAESTRAS AND THAT SHE /MRS. CROZCO/ DID NOT TRUST HER BECAUSE **SHE HAD BEEN COMPLETELY WITH THE REGIME UNTIL ONLY A FEW RKONTHS AGO'*. &. HRS. OROZCO TOLD CAS SOURCE THAT HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN _VESETED ABOUT FEVE TIMES BETWEEN MID-NOVEMBER AND MID-DECEMBER 1564 BY A PUERTO RICAN WHG IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS '*JORGE**. §T WAS *'JORGES*, ACCORDING TO MAS. OROZCO, WHO TOLD HER HUSBAND CF THE PLIGHT OF | | DURING THE SECOND OR THIRD MEETING, 7 tORsES 3 REO THE NAME OF |, LATER IOENTIFIED AS AND, AGAIN ACCORDING TO MAS. CROZCC, | TWAS FROM THAT TIME GRCZCO'S CONTACT IN THEE ag ArAIR. ALTHGUGH ‘'JORGE'' 010 NOT AT ANY TIME REPRESENT HIMSELF AS CIA, MRS. OROZCO ASSUMED THAT HE WAS SENT BY CIA. THIS ASSUMPTICN SHE PASSED GN TO CAS SOURCE. '"JORGE'' NEVER IDENTIFIED THE CRGANIZA- TICN WHICH HE REPRESENTED BUT HE DIO TELL MRS. CROZCO THAT HE WAS NOT FROM CIA, '*JORGE'' O1D, HOWEVER, CONTINUE TG REPRESENT HIMSELF AS HAVING OFFICIAL BACKING FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. ''JCGRGE** WAS DLSCRIBED AS 5° 6** TO B'', MEDIUM BUILD, DARK BROWN SLICKED*BACK HAIR WITH NO PART, DARK BROWN EYES, CLIVE COMPLEXION, ABGUT 33 YEARS OLD, AND SPEAKING NEAR-PERFECT SPANISH. $. 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 BCAT, TO EQUIP IT AND FUEL IT ANO TO PROVIDE THE OTHER HECESSITRES? MRS. OROZCO REPLIED THAT THE FINDING, EQUIPPING AND READVING OF THE BOAT HAD BEEN HER HUSBAND'S RESPONSIBILITY BUT THAT HAD PR FUNOS. /A5 WILL BE SEEN BELOW, THIS ALLEGATION THAT WAS THE PAYMASTER FGR OROZCG'S TRIP 15 SUPPORTED BY A SIMILAR STATEMENT BY ANOTHER CAS SUB-SOURCE TO WHOM OROZCO TALKEO QUITE FREELY ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE/. CAASSAICATION PAGE [] commen St SMR dee Aree CCRT SPEED GORE oo CACAO Oren Rehab aa eine Ate aera eet Gc 8 PR Shee GE Mei i ab eh ct SEED evee was Queso ng eereeee mv ome dno a SER singh ster
84-00000 Ao LS VD9SPRIOM SUMO ANC MRE ® CLASSIFICATION — CONTINUATION OF . DISPATCH STORET ATT TO UFGA-15569 PG 2 - 6. CAS SOURCE ASKED MRS. ORCZCO INTO WHICH AREA DIO HER HUSBAND INTEND TO INFILTRATE CUSA. MRS. CROZCG SAID THAT HE PLANNEG TO GO INTO NORTHEASTERN HATANZAS PROVINCE TO THE MARTI AREA WHERE HE HAO SEVERAL CONTACTS WHO HAD HELPLO HIM ON THE PAST. CAS SOURCE PRESSED FOR OTHiR DETAILS OF THE ACTUAL SITL OF ERFUILTRATION BUT MRS. CROZCO PROTESTED IGNORANCE OF FURTHER DETAILS. SHE SAID THAT HES PUSEARSD HAS GET PEA AM SF EYOER TS NAMED Si MATEDS ) WHO 2aFore at KNEW THE AREA COMPLETELY. /*'MATEQ’® WAS LATER LOLNTIFEED AS pare er nmmere CAS FILES INDICATE THAT HAS MADE TRIPS TG CUBA WHILE CONTRACTING TO BRING OUT RELATIVES OF EXILES FOR MONEY. HIS REPUTATICN 1S UNSAVCRY BASED UPON THE GENERALLY-ACCEPTEO FACT THAT HE HAS ACCEPTED LARGE SUMS OF MONEY TO BRING FAMILIES GUT AND HAS FREQUENTLY FAILED To MAKE GCCO. HIS PROMISES. IF 15 ALSO A CGMMCNLY-ACCEPTED FACT AMONG THE EXILE FISHERMEN THAT WILL NEVER UNDERTAKE SUCH A TRIP UNLESS HE HAS BEEN PREVI OR 1S COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT THE MONCY WILL Bt MADE AVAILABLE UPGN HIS RETURN. 7. WRS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHE DID NCT KNCW THE NAME OF HER HUSBAND'S [INTENDED PRIMARY CCNTACT IN THE MARTI AREA. SHE MENTIONED OnE ** GANDIONG'* A FISHERMAN, AND ONE THE OWHER OF THE | | th CARDENAS, OROZCO HAD TOLS HIS WIFE THAT HE INTENDED TO SEE THESE PERSCHS TO HELP HIM WITH TRANSPCRTATION TG HAVANA AND TO PROVIDE HIM WITH FUNDS /MRS, OROZCO CONTEKDS--AND iT tS A SORE POINT WITH HER--THAT OROZCO LEFY WITH ORLY A FEW COUNTERFEIT VANA, CROZCO PLANKED TO GO FIRST TO THE HOME OF /HES PATRORYHIC HAS ALSO BEEN SPELLED FROM THERE, OROZCO PLANNED TC GO DIRECTLY TO_THE omurerché THE WOMAN WHICH HE HAD RECEIVED FROM PICK UP Pete | anor AND LEAVE. 8. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT HER HUSBAND TOLD HER THAT HE WOULO SENO A TELEGRAM TO HER AS SOON AS HE REACHED HAVANA SAFELY. SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE, HE WOULD SEND ANGTHER CASLE IN PRE-ARRANGED CODE TO INDICATE THAT HE WAS ON HIS WAY GUT. HRS. OROZCO WAS THEN TO CALL: WHO WAS TO ARRANGE AN AIR SEARCH FOR THE BOAT. /AS LATER TOLO BY MRS. ORCZCO, INCLUSICN OF THE WORD '*BIEN'* /GOOD, tN A CABLE INDICATED THAT OROZCO WAS SAFE IN HAVANA. ONCLUSION OF THE WORD **SALIO'' /LEFT OR DEPARTED/ WOULD INDICATE THAT HE WAS ON HIS WAY OUT. 9. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT INAD CALLED HAVA DECEMBER 1964, PRESUMABLY TO THE |WCMAN'S HOHE. HIMSELF HAD ANSWERED THE PHONE AND STATED THAT THERE WAS NO NEWS FROM OROZCO OR FROM ANYONE ELSE. AND THE GROUP WERE STILL WAITING FOR CONTACT. 16, CAS SOURCE ASKED MRS. OROZCO HOW MUCH MONEY OROZCO HAD LEFT BEHIND FOR HER SUPPORT. SHE REPLIEO THAT HER HUSBAND HAD LEFT $50.00 BUT THAT HE HAD TOLD HER TO RE-CONTACT OF SHE SHOULD NEED HORE. ti. A CAS SUB-SOURCE REPORTED THAT OROZCO HAD COME TO HIS HOME ON 12 DECEMBER ANO HAD TCLD HIM THAT HE PLANNED TO GO TO CUBA + TO RESCUE Na, OROZCO SHOWED SUB-SCURCE A RECEIPT FOR .4&1 .06 FOR REPAIR AN OUTBOARD MCTOR. ORGZCC SAID THAT THE BOAT WAS NOT FAST BUT QUITE SEAWORTHY. OROZCO SAID THAT[ _—=_—s«| HAD PAED THE BILL FOR THE MOTOR at HAD PROVIDEO THE OTHER NECESSARY FUNDS. ORGZCO NAMED AS A PERSON WHOM HE /CROZCO/, HAD BROUGHT OUT CF CUBA AND WHO HAD WORKED IN CUBA UNDER ONE i : CABEZAS. AS REPORTED BY SUB~-SOURCE, OROZCO TOLD HIM THAT HAD TOLO HIM OF [JDANGER AND ASKEO FOR HIS HELP IN HIM. GROZCO TOLD SUB-SOURCE_THA eure REPLIED THAT HE. WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HELP HIS FRIEND ANTED TO KNOW WHO THE PEGPLE WERE BEHIND HER pe tae REPLOEG THAT SHE WAS GOING TO PUT HIM IR 3ON WHC SPOKE FLUENT SPANISH BUT WAS NOT. CUBAN. THIS WAS GORGE!" AND FROM WHAT SUB- SOURCE 9S ABLE TO RECGNSTRUCT OROZCO MET ''JORGES* EN A BAR ON FLAGLER STREET CN THURSDAY MORNING, 10 Ot CEMBER 1364 (HERE THE 0 SUB =-SOUR PWHA ah itd seo $30 USE PREWOUS Coron, 1808 comnnuas ee ee aed et ere ketene Bemis anon es eee ee mee AN cette einen tate te ene we APO SANNA athe RUAN OA Seer SOE OBLIGE 0 UN aed sieieleg ee cae et ete Bema on sd Soh men mene TNO nae oatme das On eRe ate eel ss 24 Sento oot mae ne A Le mae a a a7 oo : - et ° : . . - ’ , « t Tray
14-00000 oe epee aS nner re CLASSE CATION FoR bored 83a USE PREWOUS Eonar = be \_/ _— CONTINUATION OF | ee. i DISPATCH 3 E£ECRET ¥ ¢ ie £c - MRS. ORCZCO TOLD CAS SCURCE/. 32, OROZCO TOLD SUB-SGURCE THAT HAD SCT UP THE MEET~ ING FOR WESNESOAY MORNING, 9 DECEMBiA, TWO PERSONS WHC WOULD ACCOMPANY HIM ON THE TRIP. CPOZCG MET THEM CN FLAGLER STREET AT A SPECIFIC CORNER WHICH GROZCO DID NOT MENTION TO SUB-SCURCE. 43. OROZCG SAID THAT HE HAD ASKED FOR A RECEIVED $490.06 FOR EACH MEMBER CF THE CREW s1T 1S UNCLEAR WHETHER GROZCO ACTUALLY RE- CEIVED THES SUM CF MONLY FOR HIMSELF AS WELL/ PLUS A PROMISE TO TAKE CARE OF ALL CF THEIR FAHILEES IF THEY DIG NOT RETURK, th, OROZCO CALLED SUB-SOURCE BY TCLEPHONE LATE Of THE .VENING OF 1% DCCEMBER TC TELL HIM THAT HE WAS "'ON HIS WAY TO THE KEYSE?, OROZCO TOLO SUB-SOURCE THAT THE ARRANGEMENTS FCR THE MONEY AND THE ASSURANCES TO TAKE CARE OF THE FAMILIES HAD BEEN AGREED UPOH , 55. AT A SECOND MEETING BETWEEN MRS. ORCZCO AND CAS SCURCE ON 8 JANUARY, MRS. OROZCC TOLD CAS SCURCE THAT SHE HAD COME INTO THE POSSESSIGN GF SCHE INFORMATION FROM AN UNNAMED FISHERMAN WHO HAD RECENTLY COME OUT OF CUBA. THIS INFORMATIGN INDICATED THAT 3EVERAL ARRESTS HAD BEEN MADE IN THE SAME AREA I8 WHICH HER HUSBAND INTENDED TO INFILTRATE. RS. CROZCO SAID THAT SHE HAD ALSO HEARD A RADIO BROADCAST THE DAY BEFORE, 7 JANUARY, STATING THAT & IRFILTRATCRS HAD BEEN PICKEO UP IN ARDENAS/MATANZAS AREA OF MATANZAS PROVINCE. MRS. OROZCO HAD CALLED AND INSISTED UPON SEEING **JCRGE'! TO GIVE THIS INFORMATION TO HIM PERSONALLY. 16. ‘'JCRGE'® AND ARRIVED AT HER HOME ABCUT 2000 HCURS, 7 JANUARY. MRS. ORCZCO SAiD THAT SHE TCLD **JORGE*! THE INFORMATION ABOUT ARRESTS IN THE AREA AND MENTIONED A PERSON HAMED ‘*PEDROS?. BRS. CROZCO SAID THAT '*JCRGE'® HAD PRICKED UP HIS EARS AT THE MENTION OF THE NAME '*PEDRO*’!'. "JORGE! ASKED MRS. CROZCO THE LAST NAME OF **PEDRG**, MRS, CROZCO REPLIED THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW. ‘*JORGE'' ASKEO WHAT BUSINESS THIS **PEDRO®* WAS IN Sa OROZCO SAID THAT SHE THOUGHT THAT **PcOROt* CWNED A in CARDENAS, MATANZAS PROVINCE. O HR wef JHEN IDENTIFIED @*PEORO®® As so AND R SAID THAT BARBI DID NOT *' WORK WITH THE AMCRICANS®* OR WITH ANY ORGANIZATION BUT THAT HE HAD HELPEO MANY PEOPLE. MRS, GROZCO SAID THAT. THES PHECE OF NEWS WORRIED HER GREATLY BECAUSE HER HUSBAND ‘HAD TOLD -HER HE INTENDED TO CONTACT THIS PERSGN. ACCORDING TC MRS. OROZCO, | THEN BROKE INTO THE CONVERSATION TO DECLARE THAT ''WE'* / PRESUMABLY MEANING SHE AND ''JOGRGE''s HAD GONE ALL THE PLANNING FOR OROZCC'S TRIP AND THAT CRGZCO WAS NOT SUPPOSED To CONTACT ACCORDING TO THIS PLAN. MRS. GROZCO REPCRTEO THAT 8 JCRGE'* DID NOT COMMENT ABOUT USE OF THE TERM **wee?, 1 THE LICENSE NUMBER OF THE AUTCMGBILE IN WHICH ** soRGE®*® AND ARRIVES WAS NOTED AS A REW YORK PLATE, BU-5523. THE CAR WAS DESCRIBED AS A LARGE FIAT. THIS LICENSE NUMBER WAS TRACED AND IT WAS REPORTED BY THE NEW YORK MOTCR VEHICLE AUTHORITIES THAT iT WAS REGISTERED TO ONE LEWIS BURNS, 75 EAST PARADE AVENUE, BUFFALO, NEW YORK. THE ONLY OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE MOTOR VEHICLE RECGROS INDICATED THAT BURNS WAS SCRN 11-10-98, THAT . HE WAS RETIRED ANO THAT THE AUTOMCBILE REGISTERED UNDER THIS NUMBER HAD BEEN A 1950 BUICK. MRS. CROZCO 3AID SHE THCUGHT THAT THIS WAS THE SAME CAR **JCRGE'* HAD USED ON PREVIGUS VISITS. 18. MRS. OROZCO SHOWED CAS SCURCE_A WHICH MRS. OROZCO EDENTIFLED AS HAVING BEEN WRITTEN BY TO HER HUSBAND {SEE ATTACHMENT As. THE NCTE WHICH WAS HOT OATEO STATEG THAT THE -ACCOMPANYING 2500.00 WAS FOR OROZCO TO USE TC BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR HIS TRIP. ANGTHER $200.06 WAS FORTHCOMING BUT SHE ADVISED PRE Hoh, | LT commun oe Aaya opps ft arenes elite Oot GG LORE EG 2A A ne ERs 6 onan en nate tentamarentitn tte Arena RENAN IEAtlene ENS rte LTTE AY SN Ga EA unt & SNEED SOD OAR ABO ERS Sein thie en REcs ERIE A ATED LOR hie) REEEDe aspti= whntnUnnth Nin wt) nines den ap emote see uate a ca teheneieeemeatanneainennnsdllniaieateiiennnatnasieinmammnt tatiana ie senses elite aaenedeeamemennaeal = Petes CREPE A ERERREONROIGRREEEDSOTTEGSOY —«~ ARENNtgPNrE RDG ONCN tin
a OOD ‘ree CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH Ss ECR OROZCO NOT TO TELL THIS Te **Los CREW MiMBERS. THE NOTE MENTICHE P*JSGRGES*. MRS. CROZCG 3A10 SHE THAT SHE JMRS. ONCZCOs WAS STILL 19. MRS. OROZCO REPORTED THAT CLASSIFICATION O UPSO Oe SOR ALT PRE BF eT : UFGA=T3569 PG MUCHACHOS'', PRESUMABLY OROZCO'S 0 A PERSCH ANMED '*anct* AND aLso 010 NOT rat] acai IN POSSESSICH HIS NOTE. HAD RETURNED To HER T WITH **JCRGE**. mas. oROZCO SAID HOUS ARIHG AFTER HER VIG THAT HAD BEEN VERY WATCHFUL AND THAT IT SEEMED TC MRS. OROZCO THAT THE PURPOSE nn TRIP WAS TO ATTEMPT TO WHITE. TTCH WASH **JURGE®*® OF ANY CONN INFORMATION WAS VCLUNTEERED FREE OF MRS. OROZCO, . TOLD ONLY COME @LOoMG WITH ATR fur por ED 1N WHAT HAD HAPPENCO TO OROZC NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH oRCZ WITH ORCZCO'S TRIP. / THIS LY TO CAS 5GURCE AS aN O8SERVATION MRS. OROZCO THAT '*JORGE'! Hap ViCUs CVLNENG SLOAUSE HE WAS INTEREST- O AND THAT HE **JORGE** HAD HAD CO'S TRIP, MRS. ORCZCO REMIROED THAT §T HAD BELEN **JGRGE** WHO HAD’ ORIGINALLY CCME To SEE OROZCO TO TELL HIM ASCUT VASQUEZ'S PLIGHT AND THAT **JUCRGEt HAD VISITED OROZCO SEVERAL TIMES THE REAFT®R, HCW WAS IT POSSIBLE THAT **JSORSE'* HAD NOTHING TC OC WITH CROZCC*S TRIP, ASKED MRS, CROZCO, PROTESTED THAT #8 JORGE GET INFCGRMATION ABOUT VASQUEZ, *" WAS ONLY INVOLVED IN TRYING To 20. MRS. OROZ EO SCMETHING TO THE EFFECT THAT SHE DID NOT KNOW {F CONSIDERED HER A COMPLETE FOOL gUT SHE JARS. OROZCO/ SUCH A TRIP REQUIRED A CONS I DERABL OF MONEY, AT LEAST +1QG0.00, AND THAT SHE Was THAT Cid NOT HAVE THAT KIND CE MONLY REPLIED THAT SHE HAD RAISED THE OF HER CWH, REPO MONEY FROM F » HRS. ORGZCO PERSISTED AND STATEO THAT SHE WAS COMPLETELY SURE IN HER OWN MIND THAT IT HAD BEEM 8 * THIS GENTLEMAN JORGE'* WHO HAD SUPPLIED THE MONEY. DID NOT ANSWER, /SEE PARA 26 BELOW IN WHICH RRS, OROZCO CLATHED TO HAVE OVERHEARD A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ** yoRGES? AND GROZCO IN WHICH ''JGRGE*! pitted HE COULD NCT SUPPORT OROZCO's fe TRIP OLRECTLY BUT COULD SUPPLY F 21. HRS. OROZCO ToLD *8JORGE'S*' CREDENTIALS. HUSBAND HAD HAD GREAT TRUS REALIZED THAT ANYTHING BEST ADVANTAGE BUT AT THE SAME T Tal LD TH THAT SHE LL UNCERTAIN OF AT HER AND SHE / « OROZCC/ WAS INVOLVED IN WAS To HER HUSBAND'S IME SHE COULD NOT BR TO RGE'* AS SHE FELT tn "JORGE** WAS NCT CUSAN BUT PUERTO FE SAME CONFIDENCE IN '* YG TOLO MRS. OROZCO THAT ' AN AMERICAN CITIZEN WHO WORKED FOR THE **PENTAGCN!! , SAID THAT SHE HERSELF WAS NOT ACTIVELY WORKING FOR THE PENTAGON’! ANY LONGER BUT THAT THERE ARE TIWES WHEN HER FORM EMPLOYERS NEEO HELP AT WHICH TIMES THEY CALL UPON HER {,§ —' MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT HER HUSBAN D HAD TOLD HER THAT BO AND **JORGE'' WORKED FOR THE * *PENTAGCN®* , 22. | | Toxo MRS. OROZCO THAT SHE woULD PROVIDE TO MRS. OROZCO AN’ WHAT SHE NEEDED TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY. ON 4 CRS JANUARY, HAD GIVEN MRS. GROZCO $100.00 To PAY HER T FOR Wi oUM MRS. ORCZCO DID NOT SIGN A RECEIPT. TOLO MRS. OROZCO THAT '* yoRGEt SPECIFIED PERIO[, ALSO WOULD BE OUT OF TOwH FOR AN UN- 23. CoRR PAID MRS. OROZCO ANOTHER VISIT ON 14 JANUARY, ACCORDING » CROZCC HOW CLAIMED THAT NEITHER SHE NOR '* JORGE’! HAD HAD ANY FACT THEY HAD BOTH TRIED TO TALK 24. ANOTHER SUB-SCURCE Pat THE EVENING CF Il JANUARY. MR SAME NOTE WHICH INDICATED THAT FOR THE INITIAL PREPARATICNS FOR ronm aso §3a USE PREVIOUS EDITION. CLASSITICAT ION — | i } OG WITH CROZCO'S TRIP, THAT 9M HIM GUT CF MAKING THE TRIP, D A SCCIAL VISIT TO MRS. CROZCO ON SHCWEO THIS SUB-SOURCE THE HAD GIVEN ORCZCO 500.00 HIS TRIP. MRS. ORCZCO TOLD THIS PAGE MO.
14-90000 e 3 7 ” , °? ( ) \) CONTINUATION OF eee ner | DASHA T Cos SV REOL AND NUMEER DISPATCH Oe UFGA*19569 ATT PG SUB-SOURCE THAT BO AND **JORGE?* WORK FOR THE PENTAGON AND ALSO MENTICNED VOSiTS GH &@ AND 11 JARUARY IN WHICH ATTCMPTESD TG CESCLAIM ANY PART FCR HERSILF GR ''JGRGE'*® IN OROZCO'S TRIP, MRS. CROZCG TOLS THIS SUB-SGURCE THAT Sik WAS GOING T ESSURE UPON THESE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PENTAGON cocine nti *eJORGE'*; TO LETHER GET HER HUSBAND OUT OF CUBA GR HAT TO BUY HIM OUT. 25. %‘#JORGE** PAID AN UNANNOUNCED VISIT TO MRS. GROZCO GON 13 JANUARY. DURING THIS VISIT, HE CONFIDED TG MAS. CRCOZCO THAT HIS HAME WAS NOT ''JCRGE'! BUT ''TGRRES''. ‘'TORRES**® SAID THAT HIS ORGANIZATION HAD NOT BEiN INTERESTED IN VASQUEZ BUT IN TWO AGENTS /HE USEo THE TERM PP AGENTES'' WHO WERE IN HIDING ON THE SAME HOUSE WITH VASQUEZ. AT WHICH POINT MRS, CROZCO ASKED '*TGRRES*! HCW HE HAPPENED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS IF HIS CLAIM WERE TRUE THAT HE HAD ROTHING TO OG WITH HE@ inisBANOTS TRIP, 8ITCRArcts Mane NO RIPLY, ACCORDING TO MRS, GROZCC. 26. MRS. CROZCC THEN CCMMENTED THAT SHE KNEW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE HOW OLFFICULT IT WAS TO RAISE EVEN A FEW HUNORED CCLLARS {N THE EXILE COMMUNITY. SHE SAIO THAT SHE KNEW Hearne D NOT HAVE THE $1060.00 GR MORE WHICH HAD BEEN SPENT FOR HER HUSBAND'S TRIP. THIS LED HER TO THE CONCLUSION, MRS. GROZCG SAID, THAT **TORAES®! AND HIS ORGANIZATION HAD SUPPLIED THE FUNDS. AGAIN THERE WAS NO REPLY FROM *'TORRES'*, ;CN 11 JANUARY 1964, MRS. GROZCO TOLD SAME CAS SCURCE MENTICNED IN INITIAL PARAGRAPHS THAT SHE HAD CVERHEARD A CONVERSATION BETWEEN HER HUSBAND ANO ''TORRES*' A WEEK OR TWO BCFORE GROZCO'S DEPARTURE IN WHICH **TORRES**® TOLD ORGZCO THAT HE COULD NOT SUPPORT HIS TRIP '*DIRECTLY** BUT COULD PROVIDE MONEY WHICH ‘OROZCO COULD USE TO MAKE HIS OWN PREPARATIONS/. 27. MRS. OROZCO SAID THAT SHE HAD HAD TWO SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO BRING UP TO **TORRES''. ONE, THAT IF WORO WERE RECEAVED FROM HER HUSBANO THAT HE WAS STILL HIOING OUT, **TORRES!' ** CRGANIZATICN SEND A. BOAT EN TO HELP HIM EXFILTRATE. THE OTHER WAS THAT IF IT BECAME CCNFEIRMEO THAT HER HUSBAND WAS A PRISONER, '* TORRES! ?°¢ ORGANIZATION NEGOTIATE FOR HiS RELEASE THROUGH DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS. AS PART OF THIS LAST PRCPCSAL, MRS. GROZCG SUGGESTED THAT SHE BE PROVIDED WITH SUFFICIENT MONEY TG TRAVEL TC MEXICO TO TAKE UP HER HUSBAND'S CASE PERSONALLY WITH THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. '** TORRES?! SAID THAT HE HAD TO TAKE THE MATTER UP WITH HIS ORGANIZATION. *#TCRRES*! RE-EMPHASIZED THAT HE PERSONALLY HAD HAD NCTHING TO DO WITH HER HUSBAND'S TRIP. HE WAS STILL ATTEMPTING TO USE ALL THE RESOURCES AT HIS COMMAND TO FIND OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENLS To OROZCO AND WHILE HE WAS VERY SCRRY ABOUT HER HUSBANO'S MISFORTUNE, HE STATED THAT &T HAO BEEN CRCZCO'S OWN DECISIGN TO GO ON THIS TRIP. 28. UPON LEAVING, MRS. OROZCO TOOK NOTE OF THE LICENSE NUMBER ON °* TORRES’ ** BLACK VOLKSWAGEN. SHE ASSUMED BUT COULD HOT BE CERTAIN THAT fT WAS A FLORIDA LICEHSE PLATE, NC .6501304 OR 68D 1354, ACCORDING TO_A CAS INVESTIGATIC *'68D ise OF Me FOR THE COVERT USE OF THE 29. | err} WS tTED MRS. OROZCO LATER THAT SAME EVENING OF 13 JANUARY, EMED SURPRISED TO LEARI JORGE’ HAD VISITED MRS. OROZCO EARLIER THAT DAY, ATTEMPTED TO CCN- VINCE MRS. OROZCO THAT THE ‘'JORGE'' MENTICNED 1N A NOTE SHE HAD LEFT FGR_ORCZCO WAS GNE JORGE MAYO /OR MALLO/ CAROCSO, A FRIEND OF OROZCO'S IN THE REBEL-ARMY-IN-EXILE GRGANIZATIGN '*CJERCITO LIBERTADOR'* TO WHICH ANOTHER CLOSE FRIEND UF GROZCC'S, JOSE LOPEZ ON AKA ‘'PEPE EL TORO'' BELGNGS. MRS, GRG MARKED TO THAT SHE DIO NCT KNCW HOW STUPID CONSIDERED HER TO BE BUT THAT SHE WAS COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT THe **JCRGE'* MENTIONED IN THE NOTE WAS THE SAMZ '"JORGE’' WHO HAD VISITED HER AND HER HUSBAND. MRS. OROZCO ALSO TOLD T ''JORGE'* HAD TOLD HER THAT HIS NAME WAS **TORRES*T, CONFIRMED THAT THIS WAS HIS NAME. . GLASSINCATION Fone £59 §3e USE PREVIOUS EOrnON, ttre on rae Me nh ee wb ot Seed neem ORL OER At pele te a MRI © A AMSPNDL Nn ernest eee we lh-thian bet eemeete ms con Se ne + MN UND A SAID Oe RReNhere amr etinnanpy eto aneeecéie
14-00000 CLASSIFICATION CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH LASPATCHs Se MCe AMD rea SECRET A[T TO UFGA-19569 PG 6 + [MOATICMPTING TO RE-CONSTRUCT HOW MUCH HONEY WAS SPENT TO PREPARE THE BOAT AMO EQUIPHERT FER GRGZCO'S TRIP, IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT GROZCO WAS EXAGGERATING WHEN HE 3AI0 THAT HE HAD ASKEO FCR AND RECEIVED 5496.09 FOR EACH MEMBER OF THE CREW. MRS. GROZCO HAS STATEO THAT OROZCO HAD GIVEN THEM EACH $200.00 4ND SHE THOUGHT BUT - WAS NOT COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT HE HAO LATER GIVEN EACH CF THEM AN ADDS TICNAL UNSPECIFIED SUM. STARTING WITH THE FIGURE GF $700.00 WHICH 15. HENTICHEO 4N THE ATTACHED NOTE FRCM IT APPEARS SAFE TG SAY THAT MOST IF NCT ALL GF THAT 3UM HAVE BEEN PAID CUT FOR FUEL /AT LEAST 50 GALLCNS SINCE IT HAD BEEN A SO-GALLON TANK WHICH HAD EXPLODED AND HAD TO BE REPLACED;, FCCD FOR ONE WEEK, THE ITEMS /KNIVES, PGNCHOS, CANTEENS, FATIGUE UNIFORMS, AMMUNITION, E€TC./ WHICH HRS. OROZCO CLAIMS GROZCO BCUGHT IN AN ARMY/NAVY STCRE PLUS OTHER MISCELLANEOUS BOAT ITEMS. 02 TO THIS $700.00, THE $290.00 APIECE FOR THE TWO FISHERMEN ;WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN MORE/, THE 341.00 FCR THE REPAIR OF THE BOAT ENGINE, THE ESTIMATED $100.00 To PEPEACE THE 5S GALLGH FUEL TANK, THE 5100.00 GIVEN TO MRS. ORCZCO BY ANO THE TOTAL sA CONSERVATIVE CNE AT THAT/ AMCUNTS To - APPROXIMATELY 1341.00. MRS. GROZCO SAIO THAT SHORTLY BLFORE HER HUSBAND'S DEPARTURE, ONLY $125.00 REMAINED OF THE INITIAL SUM. THE GROUP LEFT FOR THE MARATHON AREA A DAY BEFORE THEIR ACTUAL DE- PARTURE ANO HAD TO RETURN TO MIAMI BECAUSE THEY HAD FORGOTTEN THE KEYS TO THE BOAT. MRS. CROZCO SAID THAT THE 550.00 SHE RECERVED FROM ER HUSBAND WAS TAKEN FROM THE REMAINING 3125.00 AND SHE ASSUMES THAT THE BALANCE GF 575.CO WAS SPENT FOR HOTEL ROGMS IN THE KEYS AND FOR OTHER LAST-MINUTE PURCHASES. THE ONLY ITEMS FURNISHED TO OROZCO, A TO HIS WIFE, WERE AN M-1 RIFLE AND AN M-1 CARBINE WHICH HAD GIVEN HIM /HRS. CROZCO THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD An TO Uy THE AMMUNITICN FOR THESE WEAPGNS/, AND A PISTOL OF UNIDENTIFIED MAKE BY LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA OF THE MOC /CHRISTIAN DEMGCRATIC MOVEHENT/ WHO ALSO GAVE OROZCO A MEANS OF ENTREE TO THE FRENCH anoassADOR IN CUBA IF HE SHCULD RUN INTO UNFORESEEN DIFFICULTIES. OROZCO ALSO BOUGHT OR RECEIVED FROM SOME UNNAMED SOURCE AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF COUNTERFEIT PESOS, 3h, AS & ENT B TO THIS MEMORANOUM, A COPY OF ANOTHER ROTE FROM © OROZCO RECOMMENDING AN INCIVIOUAL BHO CCULD PROVIDE A CR HIS INFILTRATION 15 APPENDED FGR YouR REFERENCE. THES INDIVIDUAL 1S BELIEVED TO BE ACSI SOURCE No. 693. 32. CAS WOULD APPRECIATE ACS! COMMENTS ON THE ABove PARAGRAPHS PART. AS THESE CONTAIN CERTAIN ALLEGATIONS AGAINST '*yoRGE!s ” ane SENCE §T 1S NCW APPARENT THAT **JORGE'® aNnD §*TORRES#® A HE SAME, IT 1S BELIEVED THAT FURTHER INVESTIGATION RTO THE (OENTITY OF THIS INDIVIOUAL fs UNNECESSARY, SOLS eee ote OA AOR EEA NEE GURY a ee ett 8k were Te re mttenoe wardenate seatilaetinite tment ote ett stsA oe eaten eet te tk Been en is ath soaanmeneasnoeecyeteatteceten ate. sth at EET ANe Arte oe RD ah NTO TINEC IN noe ie SR eA so ate or
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