(404-10191-10197 ry s . . “y Se ‘ CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AZENCY : WASHINGTON FS OS : TO _ * Director Federal Bureau of investi gation Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich os a nn 5 wow tebe” FROM : Deputy Director (Plane) SUBJECT : Alpha 66 - Or ganjzatiou and Plans PRT OS ort te prerggmece ge sul y I. Reference is inade to this Agency's teletype OUT 64747 of 6 October 1962, subject.” Current Plans of Alpha 68. a. The following information concerning Alpha 66, a Cuban counterrevolutionary croup. was received on 7 September 1962 by another office of thia Ageacy from a source whose reliability ts unkanwa,- a. Alpha 66 ts iocorporated under the laws of Puerto Rico and is cumprised of Cuban certified public accuunt- auts tn exile, for the moat part Uving in San Juan, but with @ome representatives.in New-York and Miard, [tis dedicated to Sabotage, harrassment and similar pit and Pun type commanda operations against the Castro regime in Cuba and intends to Carry out Bix to eight such forrays in the coming months. The first of these ja reportedly already planned in detatl and will go into effect in thé not 4; ” too distant future, stemming from some undisclosed island ¥ base in the Caribbean. Thia organization has no political aspirations and doce not look forward to any position or repre sentation in & postwar Cuban provisional government, » b, Ta date all of the support for this organization bas come primarily from private sourcea and they are anxious to accept contributions from any interested sup- porter, They have no averaton to working with the United ARTO” ony RET ind USO
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14-00000 -2- States Government Lf it will serve their best interests, how- ever, with or witheut United Stateu Government coordination and/or support they intend to go ahead with their plans. This organization does need more money and equipment for future cperations which may have to wait until they can get the resources that they need, Their criticiam to date of all other Cuban exile groups is that they have wanter power, money, and position, Because this group wants none of these, except supplies and cash to get their harrass~ ment projects underway, they are, therefure, only tell- ing what the y-muat to convince interested helpers of their seriousness and intent and will disclose only what they must of their plans to assure them success of this purely aggressive, retaliatory, harrassment organizauion. They claim they want nothing to do with the student group organ- ization which recently shelled Habuna. Aa ex-C PA‘s their very tasinesslike manner requires them to give receipts for any funds received for help. . c, They now have enough supplies to carry out their first operation auccessfully and maybe one other. The organization purchased these supplies in Europe to avoid being identified with strictly United States support and endorsement. They have approximately $30, 000.00 whuch they. collected irom private, business subscribers, but obviously need mure to go ahead after the firet attack, At } the prevent time they have one -boat, but need more for future operations, They plan to use 6ix to ten men per operation, and all of their training has so far been carried out in Puerto Rico. According to their contact man in New York, one of their first operations is to blow up ail te he power stations in Cuba. d. Their personnel in the execulive or nade rstup phase, although sume are doulNiess in (he wpe rational phase as well, are as follows: 8) In New York their leader is Alice riv GUTLAREZ de la Solana whe is employed vy the mayegine Bohenila aml Vanidades, un Ute Lincuin Buid'ng, a» lreaserer. tec; —— whe 4 as sity, Sch STEEDS WR BBD Geng LTE FOS Mam ln wali aS lee tng Be oR PE an ot Pek scy ar a Mee he! a an) » eeed
14-00000 MORROE TETRA, By, . eee 7 reenter ae 7 Ses ee a | -3- & (@) Io San Juan, Puerto Rico, the leader ‘18 Jeronimo ESTEVE, He was a former leader of the Catholic Pamily Group ia Cuba. (sic) treasurer, (sic) (4) Other officers in Puerto Rico are Dr, Raul JANES, an oculist, J - J. MURABOTTO, former vice sresident of the Trust Company of Cuba, and Roberto CASTELLON, (3) Still other members in Puerto Rico are Ricardo GONZALEZ Porta, Pedro MUINA, and Father Miguel HERNANDEZ (a Catholic priest), Their positions are not known, ®. In addition to the officers in New York and San Juan which are listed above, they have a hard core of forty five - officer who later was tn CASTRO‘s original army, and the other a Castro officer who le known as the miliary com- mander and operations office, who have directed the train- ing and will carry out the operations when ready. i 3. The possibly identical with Ramon PEREZ records of thia Agency reveal that a Dr. Ramon DAPLE, * Daple, resides at 173 West Biraet, Hazel Crest, Tiinola, aad ig 42 assistant'to Dr. Jose Laus CONZALEZ. In August 1982 these men were reported by an untesied source to be infil- trated Castroite Cubans even though they are nuted in Harei Crest for rm enn nee their anti-Communist activines, This information way previously passed $ y BP tu the Bureau and the Immigration and Naturalization Service i. this Agency's CSCI-3/772, 891 of 1 October 1962, 4, Records of this Agency reveai that one Antonio Carlow VECLANA Bleach, Drobably identios! with Anlonio VECIDVA Blanch, was burn un 18 October 1628 in Cuba. VECIANA's connection With the Algona 68 orvan- Po meme ee nee ization waa disseminated in tts Agency's lelutype OUT 746u4 .< 9 Secrets Ys] oe ‘ft Fee, EDS SAD LADY re pane oases “Ke, B cceaseee ents ae tel ey HE Ce ned yaw
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