(continued ) These letters were furnished because their content indicated that Friesecke might be associating with militant, anti-Castro elements in the US and might have unauthorized access to classified US Government information. A letter dated 3/28/64, with the salutation "Dear John" stated in part as follows: ".... After two years of preparation the combined forces of Alpha 66 - II Frente - MRP under the command of Maj. Elroy Gutierrez Menoyo are about to go into action. The code name is 'Plan Omega'... The stupid CIA has scheduled a second invasion of Cuba to take place (you guessed it) at election time this year. " (Letters set out verbatim. Ge) 105-0-11764. encl.p.5 2 CLA revealed that according to Dr. Francisco Leon Fosser, close friend of former Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras (109-430), Prio's secretary, Dr. Orlando Puente Perez, said (no date) that he was in charge of the funds which Prio was giving to certain Cuban exile figures in Miami. Sometime before the fifth day of each month, Prio had been giving $1,000 to Eloy Gutierrez.Menoyo, leader of SNFE, Beginning in April, 1964, Prio planned to give $1,000 a month to the Comandos L and the same amount to Alpha 66 as a subsidy for these groups to newp arry.out their activities against Cuba or shipping to Cuba. am ~2h69 CIA, Miami, advised that Ramon Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez, husband of Olga Georgina Goicochea Salas (105-129981) entered Miami from Havana, Cuba, on 1/14/61.. His wife remained in Cuba because of her participation in counter- -revolutionary activities. Olga was arrested on 2/6/61 by the Cuban Intelligence Service and charged with assisting in the escape from Cuba of Eloy Gutierrez --Menoyo and David Salvador, both of whom were, as of 4/23/64, anti- Castro Cuban leaders in the Miami area. ; du Olga was released from prison in Janwary, 1963 and after intelligence training, entered Miami on 1/12/64. She had five fold missions in the US, one of which was to develop information regarding the activities and militant plans of anti-Castro’y ‘u) )e’ (continued -17- SECRET! HW 56792 DBocld:32336722 Page 10
‘Georgina Goicoechea Salas and Chafir Homero Saker Zenni _(105-129593) ~ SECRET oe . On 9/15/64, JFK Act 6 en (1384-12232) | PSI, SNFE member, advised that he had heard nothing concerning the wheréabouts of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, anti-Castro. leader with whom, he had. close mele: . | ) Speer] * [oo ‘ GIA Intelligence Information Cable (protect taentity): dated 10/6/64, advised that on 10/3/64, Manuel Reboso and former Rebel Army Captain Renaldo Nicolas Blanco Navarro, both former . members of Brigade 2506, stated that they had recently been invited by former Rebel Army Major Rodriguez Tamayo (FNU).to, take part in an action which was planned against Haiti. Reboso stated that he had heard that Eloy Guiterrez Menoyo, was in agreement with Louis -De.: Joie (not identified) and that he had 200 men in the DR on. the Haitian. Border apparently waiting to invade Haiti. CIA source commented that it was doubtful that Gutierrez Menoyo had any men poised at the Border. &) mY 1055 =95677-464, p.1,2 ; 105- “95077 382 On 10/30/64, Rolando Masferrer Rojas, 42 - 26 81st Street, Elmhurst, NY, (2- 1622) advised that Reverend Diego Madrigal, a Cuban exile Catholic Priest, had informed him that in conversation with Donald Reid Cabral (not identified), Cabral had said that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, the military:head of the SNFE - Alpha 66, had a camp in the DR for awhile but had now left the DR and was believed to be back in the Bahamas or on his way to Cuba. . 2-1622-287 p.6- LANES A report by CIA, Miami, revealed contacts between Olga in Mexico City on December 18 and 19, 1964, Saker asked her to be careful of her husband, Ramon Luis Gonzalez Rodriguez and try to elicit from him information: on the activities of Eloy Gutierrez’ Menoyo and his eR Loy 12 3593- -11 encl.p. “HR ; ‘{ | -20- o m4 \ SECREE 7 | HW 56792) DBocld:32336722 Page 11
SECRé i (continued ) REFERENCE _ - SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 109-584- “4IT9 pi1,2; 6, 7,12 --4290 p.1,9- ~4384° encl. p.2 -A "Washington Star" -A The "Miami Herald" 6s This reference. set forth information ‘furnished by - MM-97h- Ss -and MM 847-S which revealed that members of the Federacion Estudiantil Universitaria (of Cuba in,Exile) (FEU) (105-123191) were scheduled to leave Miami.for the DR or an undisclosed location outside the US, where they would join Eloy Guiterrez Menoyo, military head of sues. 7 (UM) On 1/13/65, Gustavo Rodrigo, Secretary General of FEU, Miami, advised that for several months, Gregorio Del Campo, Gustavo Mazzaro and several other FEU members had been expecting to be asked to join Gutierrez at his location somewhere outside the US. He stated that he had no information indicating that these individuals had departed Miami. 2 ; —_ 1055 231 1-18 pies CIA Information Report dated 8/24/65, (protect identity) revealed that reportedly, several diplomatic missions had directed ; appeals to the Cuban Government on behalf of the two nephews of former President Ramon Grau San Martin. Cuban officials felt that Washington was behind these appeals. They expected this since in their view, Grau's nephews were CIA agents involved in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro (109-539). The capture of Grau's-nephews was brought about, according to Cuban authorities, by denouncements made by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo following his capture in the mountains of Oriente Province. (A) u} Headquarters Cowments: According to the "Miami News" of 2/5/65, Mrs. Leopoldina Gr&w Alsina de Aguero and Ramon Grau Alsina, niece and nephew of former Cuban President Ramon Grau San Martin, were arrested about 1/20/65. R u) ' The Cuban Government a need use u) of Gutierrez on . 1/25/65, i.e. after the arrest of the Graus. sar pe ~22- SECRET, HW 56792 DBocld:32336722 Page 12
| | | C7 ; . SECREL: ; The following references on Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo appeared in the file captioned "Commandos L-66." These references set out information concerning. Gutierrez during the period around October, 1962 to 1/25/65. Gutierrez and Antonio Veciana, leader of Alpha 66, had signed a pact which resulted in a split within Alpha 66. Former members who denounced Veciana for using the services of Gutierrez, organized as Commandos L-66 in San Juan, PR. Gutierrez was captured on 1/25/65 by government forces in Cuba. He subsequently appeared on television in Cuba and publicly revealed that different. Cuban exile organizations had used the DR as a base of operations against Cuba. . oo” , REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 105-117222-4 encl.p.1 -5 encl.p.1,2,5,9 -8 encl.p.l -9 encl.p.8,9 -18 p.3 -64 p.4,6 -66 p.12 --68 p.4 -~71 p.14,42,53,76 -192 encl.p.1 -194 . = {S) On 1/26/65, (w 1196-9 advised that the Cuban Mission to the UN had been furni dad the text of a note from Raul Roa, Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations, with the request that. the note be delivered tothe Secretary General of the UN. Informant furnished a translation of Roa's note (set out verbatim) (no date) which stated that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba had captured.a. group of armed enemy agents formed by the counter-revolutionary leader, Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and others who had landed in Punta de Caleta, near the town of Baracoa. This note further stated that the agents confessed their participation in various subversive activities directed toward the overthrow of the Government of Cuba, and set out details surrounding this venture and the capture of the. group. It also stated that the Government of the DR, PR and the US were perpetrating acts.of aggression against their sovereignty £ U| 109512-210-5166 encl.p.1,3,4, -23- SECREP HW 56792 DBocld:32336722 Page 13