ftowsonaasortA] a - _ — a oo. . .. RETURN TO CIA eo | . - oe Background Use Only ~ Do Not Reproduce yan rn ca — [ { REPORT COVER SHEET - SECRET — _ || PRECESSING ACTION. ..~- face " — [rr a Zoven sweet JNWAVE 7 : UFG-7463. MARKED FOR INDERENG a, _ «fp Rteortine ore eceg w KY pare oF aisowt —— xx ("2 INDERENG REQUIRED. . ‘ : 7 _Henry. Je. SLOMAN 17 Aug 65 ann frre REPCRTEO SEPARATELY : . ateonts oreeces 3 vite? : : : CS OISSCMIMATION . Margaret. pak gat te ~ Arraovin ii ° = source caver . , lees OLSSCMINATION pias pc. La i : : : ANOT-245 : ne ape nnn FLUELO.OGSTRIBUTION —_ . 4- me _ 1 cy. éach to Miami reps. of: 1l-00/fe (67 = 7 —_ 2 ~ JMBAR (for COMKWESTFOR) - State, F.B.I., Customs, 2 > Ypanana City} (for CINCSO) SS, I&NS, Border Patrol, U.S.C.G; 1 + Mexico City leer er , 2 =[Caracas\| 2 -JBonn “ eee SUPPLE MENT Ae, Gata ib- 7 15- {3 7 TYPIC , Source: “AMOT-245 in AMOT report EE-3876, dated 5 August 1965, Field Comment #2 was based on information that AMYUM-14 submitted; ‘he received it directly from ANCRUMP~7_ (now terminated), Group 1: Excluded from Automatic Downgrading and Declassification STE - ali AUS LY 1955” ae ( Ws uyestd — Pecvious corteons ah
ene, es atte ate GRADING CF SOURCE: A: Complete .w-atiea 8: Ueue ~ eer anie. te avstces at doutiful honesty on toveity. twgardiess of Mer curcetence). FIELD INFORMATION REPORT C: Faisty eetante. & Not usuatty relanie, E: Not ret sc'e. (applied “8: Ralattty cat’ be pudsed i Apgted to untested of ersuficsentty fevted sources}, . . . APPRAISAL CF CONTENT: 4: Confirmed ty ater independent ang refisbie sources. 2: Propetty true. 2 Pesabty true  & Oousttyl. §: Probably fate. G: Cannot be judged, - CONFIDENTIAL ~ “CONTROLLED DISSENM _ \ country Cuba : REPORT NO. sugiéér Additironal Background on the DATE CE REPORT 17 August 1965 Abortive Raid of the Moviaiento a Democrata Cristiano (HDC) on the NO. PAGES 3 ‘Distillery at Santa Crus del Norte, : Hivana Province REFERENCES pareor 26 July 19650 . INFO, piace g United States, Miami UFG-7463 DATE ACA. (11 August 1965 SOURCE: THIS 18 UNEVALUATED InvOmmatiON ROUME GRADINGS ARE DFOINITIVE GPeMAIEAL OF CONTENT 19 TENTATIVE A membor of a group of Guban emligres trained in the techniques of information collection, The group has provided useful reports since 1961. Field Comment: TDCSDG-315/02530-G65, dated 27 July.1965, reported the plans of the Movidiento Democrata Cristiano (MDC, Christian Democratic Movement) to attack the distillery at Santa. Cruz del Norte - Operation Cacabual - on the night of either 27 or 28 July. This plan involved the use of two craft, the BERNARDO II, a mother ship, and the VICKY I, an operstional boat that wag to earry the raiding party to Cuban shoves, TDCSDB-315/02538-65, dated 28 July 1965, reported that the planned raid did not succeed because one of the craft in the raiding flotilla had apparently been intercepted by a vessel believed to have been a United States Navy vessel, , ‘Tha following persons were aboard the VICKY I on 26 July 1965 when she was intercepted by a United States naval vessel bearing number W-42:1 Angel M. Hernandez Rojo, Placido A. Barbeite ‘Freyre, Aurelio Pena, aka "Yeyo,” and two other persons hamed Jorge (inu) and Edgardo (lou), Personnel aboard the BERNARDO II included Angel Vega Guillen, Adela de ja Campa do la Torre, and Ricardo Garcia, J . Operation Cacrahual failed because the naval vessel begaa. pursuing the VICKY I even before she renched international waters, Once she had reached international waters the naval vessel bevan signaling the craft in Morse code /Using a dlinker light/, The naval vessel then turned on several of her searchlights until one of thew spotted the KDC boat. The vessel proceeded toward CONFIDENTIAL CONTROLLED DISSEM SRGuP i Euttears tua autematic dremy wii and Dect ane *e ation DISTRIBUTION
14-00000 4, ‘8. Ge ; - DONE LDENTUAL , SCONTROLLAD DISSEM . ~ ' UFG- 7463 2-0) the boat, wnt alongside her, but. tho authorities did not board her, Since the deck of the vossel was considerably higher Chan that of the MDC boat, it wag casy for the authoritios to obsorve . aboard her a 57-mm recoilless cannon, _.@ 20-a9 Finnish-made cannon, an AR-15 rifle, and. two Gurmad machine guns, In order to avoid arrest and having their poat confiscated, the crew of the VICKY I decided to throw all thoir weapons overboard. Once they accomplished this, the naval vessol left. : The Santa Cruz distillery. was selected as a target because it ia! the second most important distillery in Cuba‘ and because the MDC ‘bad received information that a special gasoline to be used for military purposes was being distilled there, As a result of the designation of Hernandez Rojo as chief of the woc's military sector, three raid operations were prepared . _— between late June and late July. In addition to Operation Cacahual, the. MDC. has prepared Operation Maceo, which involves a naval ‘attack against the radar installations at Cabo de San Antonio on the Peninsula of Guanahacabibes, Pinar .del Rio Province, and _ Operation Machete, which is. to be directed against the destruction - of the refrigeration equipment at the fishing coopera tive in : Dimas, Pinar del Rio Province.4 These two operations are 8x- ‘pected to be launched as soon as circumstances permit. The MDC has always had the policy: of conducting military -opera- _tiong againgat Cuba, but it had not been able to do anything because — of the lack of strength of Laureano Batista Falla, former military leader of the MDC. ‘Butieta Falla had Knowledge of Operation Cacahual, but he did not participate in it, The military budget of the MDC is $750, per month, which amount ig received from Batista Falla's private funds, However, the MDC expects to receive financial assistance from its delegations in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Mexico, Now York and West Germany. ‘Field Comments: 1. The w-42 has peen“identifiled as a United States Coast Guard | vessel out of New Orleans, Louisiana, The Coast Guard has denied the involvement of the W-42 in this incident, - 2. Another source, who has been trained in information collection and whose previous reporting has been accurate but Lacking in depth, has reported that, according to Angel M, Hernandez Rojo, the crew of the VICKY I first became aware that” they — ‘were being pursued when they were about 23 miles from Key West on the night of 26 July. ; ; ; 3, CSDB-312/01498-65, dated 24 June 1965, reported that Hernand z Rojo had been appointed chief of the military sector and was to assume his responsibilities immediately. ~ 4. The same source recently reported in detail on Operations Maceo and Machete in UFG-7445, ; CONFIDENTIAL CONTROLLED DISSEM 25 ate ae nara GD ebneamemnase . . od OPEN + ST SPD pee eer ne Peecmere am ere tne thee Heat