404-10221-10314 eT? ye tF te * oP oe i . an ee eee ee . . : . . . . - Co ' é . agraoouctiom ay eruae THAR . ere cite oe TOA PRIORETY DIRECTOR, 4, UN APATL 210 MAA ReRALD PRINTED. FRONT page HE ADL INE. ARTICLE IN walCH FRANS STURels , gives LenaTay’ INTERVIEW ON His PLOTTING CASTROTS “DEAT A ON” GEMALF oF Cha, ARTICLE CLaALHS. STURGIS: WORKED FOR fae FROM: 1959 68 ARTICLE ‘ALSO ‘qudres.- STURGIS AS BEENG INVO. ved IN ASSASSINATION PLOTS. AND. consPtaactes: TO OVERTHRUw CUBAs PAYAMA GuaTeMaba “DUMINT CAN, REPUBLIC a. AND HALT Ee. no ra) STUAGIS QUOTED. a5 FouLanss "THE FIAST DISCUSSION OF. ASSASSINATION ETH HY cba contacts WAS IN FEBRUARY 19590". 3, ReQuesT cONS10z RAT{ON. BE GIVEN TG pug ic DENTAL THAT: STURGIS Was CTA AGENT. —™ Cher fro 0 GEL Cees PB EY. 4 a / 6, NO FILE: Eds IMPDET “4c pte Be be 2 pe Sew yrue oo ° SECRET
14-00000 i : martes, with highs in the i epper, fete! (Details, Page 2A.) { * gulps vemre RATURES sige ! Yam tt Pe 63 tg dpm, 77 Sam Bl sl Seni “be ‘tam, Bo fy PACT MESKIL } “ age: Were tems Seroce “Twas. a apy.” Fienk Sturgis ad- ste , VE viay seatedised tft weeaseitiativen + "ppugte. ‘and car Wydratees fa on erthrow od etal doreign guvernments, a. Panama, Be Guraier mata, oy | “smiugzled atm, and men into Coun —" lor Gastio ard agaist Gastte: | broke ante the intelligence hie. tthe Cuban army and air ; stile ane photusrapiacd dn iereds of searet documents. Inat's what spies dv. lenge 1 i. . _ af ASO. BROKE into foreign “¢ informatio t 1. u, 1 t- 1 tur: biice ing eomite | frantic elfurts -by-Castro security, forces and the KGB to de stro it. Sturgis was a ‘hires operative » of “ the Central dnteHigence” ‘Agency for Though, he: Was Jonily, a bit, player. ‘4 gunrunner, * ‘guerrilla - fighter | “and professional plouter. os : ia been an ase” ject. Some things ne wit not taik about. “«: Complete N etespaper. ‘twe. Lana American: Eg@heaq Arg. Publinned baie’ A ‘STOCKY, iron-jawed. man who fooks,-much years, wa Fiorini: in the (of he we : or. U. World War. younger than ym Frank Angelo. Folk. Va. 4 . Masing Corps at the start He joined li and -foughe “through the. Pacific with the famed . First |Raider Batialion.. war, he served After the in whe ‘Air Force, taught aim judo! knit jungle warfare iechniques. ‘the ! his: ag | real spy. ” He had the, perfect training fer a secret agent. The Manne Corps sfighting and ‘the Air Force Caught hiat to fly a plane and waves Reserve trained him fo handi ie small, fast ships, The. Army completed this ‘educa- tien, Puring a hitch in Germany, inv a Was Assigned ty Asecutity unit tha? “hardled, top. seuret reports from ALE - Ved. intéiigence seers atl aver Eu: itope. This wag Bis th introduction “ dark world of espionage and i trigue. Btn Berlin during the chilliest part of the Cold War, he met his first “ ganah, She was a ‘beautiful ‘ne CE dition 15 Cents ae Newsstand price higher in wie delivers cities *- ‘ bY tress who also was an agent of Ha- the secret army ‘formed ts ¢efend the new state of Israel. WHEN HE returned fo chvilian Ufe, Frank became a Haganah cou. rier — perhaps the only Roman Catholic in this group. In ihe 1950s, he went to Miami to visit an dnele ’ whe had marned a Cuban exsle. Her family was close to Carlos Brio, the Cubon president who was eust- ed in 1054 hy a mililary coup led by Fulgencio Batista, Frank met Prio” and other wealthy Cuhans whose Miami mansions were hotheds of “Turn to Page 153A Col. t a ee ®
. Miami } ch April Bae we support for a fiery. véiing rebe f ” Fide Castro, who was, then vin living. * in Mexica, . ; tn 1957, Prie asked Sturgi¢ to 1 RO to Cuba, join Castro‘s. army. and et ome know what he's ina.” iat, th accented - the alss Hie, ew to Havana. ‘ hein Of-a Cuban pLicst, e quickly oeated: “Casign’s camp in: the” Sterra . Maeatiae Mountains and: volunteered, his services “Fidel reinembe red me." he anid, “We could understand each other. d. ispoke ‘Italian, which is sitnilar ‘Spanish, and he spoke. SOM re Risk. f offered: ty: ‘help train’ his” kL paps, ‘hut he sald, ‘Frank, what 1 “aced is.eung.' Sa 'Frank. became 4 guncunner, With money supphed by the Castre tadersround” in Florida, he pur. hase? thausands of rifles and ther weapons fram International Armament Corp, Cnterarmea) uf Alexandria, Va. beheved to be the welds large Modealer in’ surphis arms, He then seq ay an eladorato Lind. Sea-air sim ugpting Retwark ta art the guns and ammunition into Cua. * APTER SEVERAL months as a couble agent, wor king for Brio and © tra, Frank’ -Hecama a. triple sent. This time, he was “recruited ioe the kame of’ inteltigence by 4 inajor ” league scout, Park” F, Woolam, the State perartment Micial then in cKarga' of the Us. consulate in Santiago’ dé Cuba. “Wei met at the: Case Grande Hotel in Santiago," Sturgis recalls, . Wonia:n Knew ‘whol waa and whne f was doing. He Approached TUS Of someone introduced Ua, We had”: ae eral other Meetings and he dts. cussed my patriotism’ ang 80 forth. f agreed do work With him..- “Later; when the’ ‘revolution was? over, | recelved orders ta ga to Ha Vana, Woolam told me who to con. ‘act In the American Embassy there," His new contacts, Sturgis said, were CIA‘ agents, one of whom was. the embassy's muilitary . attache: Caatro placed his mast’ trusted of:" fieer in command of the Cuban mit. itary Services. Maj. Pedro Diaz | Lanz, a close friend of Sturgis, be... came Commander-in-chief of the air ferce and his brother, Marcos Diaz Lone, became inspector general of . th: at service, . \ FRANK HELPED the Diaz Lanz. Sroters reorganize. the air force, and they made him’ their security and intelligence chief. He also be. came the officer in charge of in. specting and 2 Supervising al! Cuban Monday, April 21, 1975 THE MIAMIEHERALD . 7 FRANK’ STURGI ial Ti Ia ATH i i no _ CIA Agent | fortunate ely, if somé: of the anti- ‘Communist officers were in, there at the same time, they would have to 20. too. The lives of somie of the - anti- Communist | command: a ers would have to. be sacri. ficed j in OF der to get Castro and, his a : a ih in — ig st in — i i a wa itu i i a “gambling” Veastnos! Awhich ° wes dassy in. Havana, During these vise owned and Operated by American its, a conspiracy (© assassinate Cas. mobsters, tro and othe d Frank said his. CLA: advisers oped, © Cuban leaders devel “asked me to recruit reliable, people “Two! attempts against Castro's & so that We could puE agents in ihe £1. T recruited everyone [ : ss could, Aimericat s and ‘Cian be ten wate for for a green light from undercover agents." - -- Fran lorind Sturgis, A third at. Max Gormag Gonzales, ‘a Miamt businessman who took’ part “in THIS REPORTER asked Sturgis ~” Cloak .and-dapge. . tl the axainet Ba ie and Gren. when the agency first began think." has known and Worked with Sturs DB about ass: “ssinating Castro, Bis for many Years. He says Sturgis “The first disc ussion of assassi- ‘ Wasa ClA employe from 1959 ta ation wih my (CI A) contacts was 1963..The CIA asked him to particl. ti February 1959" pe he replied. “y 7 Pate in assassination plots in Ciba was m aking reports on all th . and elsewhere, Sturgis introduced miunist SCtivity in the militany y i Cuban military and political leaders suggested that this w ould be-a good to American agents at the U.S Em. time fo assassinate Fidel. 1 saig | and his. sta f) at once. Un tempt was made in 1960," ak
organize it and: follow it “I_would ‘arrange’ an liiportant ~ “ conlere “a Campo’ Libertad. have Wiped out Fidel -h : military commanders - in JO seconds, : YE asked my cantact. in the ei.  Baisy 16 get-a green light, (official. Approval) on this: Whether | th:¢: would ‘have, to ‘come from the: toy . level in Washington ofa lower level. E don't knew,” . WHILE. THEY waited fer. the green light, Sturgis and hix Cla contacts: devised two alternate alots. One was to’ execute C astra in the second-floor canference roam al air force’ headquarters. AS he and the other-afticers would net arrive Mt exactly the same tine. it might be more practical to wait until they Were all a’sembled around the .con- : ference table. "The whole idea was ta Kul all af : them at ance, Unfortunately, if sothe, of the ang -Coanununist aff. cers were In there at the same ume, they would have to gO 100. The lives of Some of the anti-Conimu- st Commanders wonid have to he Sacrificed in order to get Castro cand his crow,” The third scheme involved plant. Ing a hormb in Castro's: office, “] bart access’ to the prine coinister’s “liee,” Sturgis said. “F knew Fidoi’s arwale secretary, Juan Orta. U re. ited him to Wark with the em- satsy. 1 platined ta ga ta Fidel's.of.. Mee WHA A briefease full Of expto: ives which 2} would leave there. When Fidel -éntered the affice, a gral would be siven-and the bomb ‘ould be set off hy an electronic levice across the Streeq.”* : _ The plateers Walked several Tenths for’ the green light from Washington, but ir never came, ey couldn't make uo their meds.” Frank said of the unseen, Renown decision makers, “They ouldn’t decide what to da.” at . . BUT, ACCORDING to former in- “gence agents. tha CL later ap- Foved and bankroiled other plors > Wipe out Castro, American ad. fnturers, Cuban exiles, Mafia dans Taya ugh ranking Cuban officials . Prominent in thes! Onspiracies, Pans in these tn June 1959, Castra hired 23 top _ > begther. Raul and all the top apra: * Communist)- v * serait iii good time to assassinate SUE a , atr forve officers suspected of dea. lovalty, including the Diaz Lang brothers, Pedro Diaz Lang then ie. ‘signed from’ tho alr forve and de Rounced Castro ‘ug a Communist. “The néw air force chief, Maj. Juan. Almewa. ordered Pedro's arrest and the Tuas Lanz brothers went under. At Uus point, Sturgis wag pulled outa? Cuda. CP felt Havana on June 30 and came tn Miami to arrange the escapes of the Diag Lanz broth. ers and their families, Pedro and his wife ser out by sailhoat: Marcas “was picked up hy a plane.” The brothers fled to Florida, told all they krew about the Castro re- gime and went to work for the CIA. A FEW WEEKS after Sturgis’ abrumt departure from Havana, he feccusd word that Casira was X all assassination team after him. Frank's informant supplied fuil deserpoons of the. three assassins, who were Mexican Communists. The FBL posted an around-the-clock fyant on Sturgis’ Miami home and tateral agents followed him wher- ever he went. Custens and Immigration offi- cers were aierted: The Mexican kunmen were spotted when thev vity in the military. T sug. * ee ae crossed the border and were tavled: to Florida, where they weré arrist. | ed. Their car_was confiscated and |. whey were booted back to Mexico, se qn Oct, 25, 1989, an. American B25 homber- sienopird Over Havas aud dropped -thousaids ot anti-Cas- ; tru ledilets.” Castro called this ¢ “bombing” raid a’Caban Pearl Hace.’ bur, “Pedro Diaz Lanz was the pling,” Sturgis tald The News. “f was the . ca-ptial, Marcas Dise Lang and ane other Cuban were with us. Cohan : air force fighters came atter us hut ' they missed us asd aimosc shat their own planes down, The big - guos at the navy stauon and the Cabana fortress opened up. but the angle of the gums was such Unat- they were firing from the heights into the city “At least 36 people cre Killed and wounded.” * THE LEAFLET bombardment was tne first af mary ClAsspers sored minors Sturgis made to Cuba by air and sea. “Il made at least 125 air operations into Cuba,”* he said, “with the green Hight and without the green heh: qwith and * “wimout offical agmovaln And ff made some Ki baat ; . ’ ql q i
Baga Dae Duvalice of Haiti and Hofael mal teenage girl would Be by compli “\ WEW YORK DAILY XEKS =~ SECRETS OF THE F THE ClAl | 29 APRIL 1975 American Mate Hati Who clandestine. operations now: undergoing a ommetl a gPaluet offical - | » the Cent? ‘al trict genes Ageury 9 fa & tight: Hp, Bae ith. the sighutd wha he é ne aatoe: sg f the iuté } avs “- aS © + Bo ai.) ol laweree: ae the. ; ‘ ones) swarm “aba e pital es, A BEAUTIFUL Geftnan-American. mmades dangling “from ‘thelr belts girl scored an intelligence coup for: Bathing game ewinging from the-CIA by stealin; secret papers Women in’ evening - , 34. ran for cover writ Hin ’ the: alte sie: “fostatlations” © tae a ew pri ne black. haired Mirle Lorent, ‘ “and: her crowded. yea quictly: in Now’ Yor _ Wak thes ond” ‘he ‘shduted, obviouts Mata: Hari of -the ¢ ad. awake! enigving he. commotion Re had caused. Sha .%33 one of the i ; ie Americans.” - ‘ menibers | of a Spy ft } id for. The Berlin’ ‘sedpber, former ‘German = : the. Cantrat “Intell 3° Ageticy by ¥' Navy’ ‘Capt. “Helarich Lorenz, tavited AY ‘ote t Fark _Fiorigh a one @ triple agent’ {he barbudos td etsy for. cocktails ‘and Mario Lorena: pied ¢ én Fidel, as wns: later becaine “kn @ tho Ameri- ~dinger, and ho letreduced Castro ta Kis “bs tall, charlematly dictatar, But her. Se Balle ag Watergate ‘urging Frank viacious ui voarcld date biter, Marie, . aitksmne MMusions were ‘shattered soda i “My fathee spske banish and &e alter ths plane landed. ren “3a “Lorena, Sturgis, other former’ got alohg woll with Castro,” Satie tld ~ “ay was very -Idealistle then.” she espionage “sgents, Caribbean conepira-! this reporter. “He took Castro and Bia app “Easy going on an adventure and’ tors, and Cuban freedom fighters were then on a tour of the akip, theo asked 9, my fiest job. & was going to belb interviewed for this séries on CIA them to please Jeave taeir Runs outsize she niw government, Instead, £. became’ operations in the Caribhean and tho the dining room before they sat down Contes plaything : Araci¢as. Some of thelr clandestine oc. for dinner. : ey dtivea fi th rit tivti¢s’ ate told here for the firat tinis, "Castro sald they . didn't fect sate » rae in ee ng aispert, te and. soaie are belag Investigated by the without guss, $4 sy father allowed Tie | Havana iton, Wl gre ideal 2 Ra ‘Sefizia Select Committers on Tiuelli- thee ta keep thelr Bistels, but ke made (shea over the 2ith floor. For the’ nest four months, | hardly. ever got out of. - get out, I was. Kanes | aad Vice President Hockefeller's: them leave the machine wuns, as tomat ° ‘ Ginralasion oa CIA Activities, ele riflés.and grenades fu the smoking bauer guard ‘hen bai Mo fadown te Acecrding to sourtes, the CI room.” = : ‘ to oga degree or abate inet Castro sat at’ the -caztaln’s table, te pool or coffeu shop, two bursudos Flats to assassinate forcign heads between Lorene aad B¥arie, Durine the would fo wie me, oe : . an meal, ha smiled frequently at Maria, 3 Was His Prisoner’ 7 oo cf state, including Castro of Cuba and ske was ax le: pressed o4 any nom -Agked. to defing. hee relation #2 Castra during this periad: M sad: “F was his prisoner, i waa “traps. Trujillo of tha’ Domiflcan Republic. ‘teats from the Mapibayant kero ‘of the @ Smashing s Castroita atteniot to Cuban révolation, favade Panima: and sabotage the Pana. She spoke’ Germaa . and Enstish, pe? na Canal, which ske had learned frdm hee-Aten-~ ~ =tYere yOu over in love with “@ The explosion of a munitions shin ean. mdther. Casirassaid he nesded a Riis? ia Havana harbor. secretary Who eould writy letters ia "Na, never. How cag you be Ia love e Ezfore the thesl wa wes you" re afraid, when yoo're treated! A “fantastic scheme to selze al these languages. over, ha offered the job to blarte. EXe auplece of furniture, when vou'ra, Soviet ahii and use it to obtala the releais af the capticed American sey Took. OHHer As Joke you're living in @ room with ship Pucblo. “He saked me to stay In Havana peas on every table and cigar butts ail @ Seeret deals with American mob. and work for him.” she “bald My fa. over Se flooe?” ther und 2 both laughed. My father “My way of thinking was German” - Stars who Aad lost their multiniNion. dollar Cuban gambling cz: sino’, , aie N32, Soin back ‘te Germany te ake continued, “Everyehing in my hfe @ Armed .raids on Cuba and many’ Tava my education.~ t & bad been very orderly, very neat atid m Cuba and many _ Castro promised to write to ker, sa 7 aan. ( never realized anyane, capeciak & prime minister, could be s0 dines wshed. T thought Ke would- have averhi offices, with desks, chairs an mea. ASL he had, at this DOIN, a 4 shipments of guerriita ‘fighters, weap. she gave him twa addresses—hee psn ests’ home in Bremen, Germany, aad ons, explosives and other’ war materi. kee brother's apartment in New York, alt to the island beforo and: after the where gh planned to stay. when the er BP ae " 2 Lay af Pigs fiasco. Caribbean’ cruise ented. She never ex- m: 3 a suifeof foomsa atthe Hilisn. Sfarie Lorenz played a small but pected to see or hese frora Fidel again, where he Nved and worked. i was Keot important role in the Jahyvinth of About two weeks Jater, two Coban in ene of the rooms. The door te te Caribbean conspiracies. officers catled on Marie in New York. yy” was locked feam the outaite, Hee Cubin adventures began on a They opefles a wdecoerat from sakes @ardudes and visitors were in the reat gaying he was in desperate need o patet, but the door between ‘the reams baleny even eae in February" 1959, when nf h Engtish-German transluier. He nad sent was Kept locked, 8 Jauneh flying the Cuban revolution. = red alongside the gleaming 4 Cubara Airlines lane to bring bey “All 1 eould do was rend books, ary fla u. white peaiern Niaee Heclin, anchored ja back to Havana, .. iz “Havana hacbor on the next-to-d “TP made a big mistake,” “Maria said, MOS? Spanish, walk back and forth, of a Carihh OC MERELOTSE Stop ay elon that plane.” iisea ta the radio or go on the balesss ar bbean cruise, . During the flight to Havana, she 3 look out over Havana. | was mastradle, My father tried to find oat arnt the gateh were 20 or 20 heavily! teled ty imagine ‘her life in Castrotand. ruripied olive-green  futigues, The Sat twucht she would have a desk in lince’s aceo: umodation ladder wag [%h? Pretier's secretariat pool and a 3 snsail apartment of ker own. Sha may ever hase dreamed of a romance wit Con. fae er? - waaay had haznened to me. He contact. J oshe American Embassy in Havasa tNarie was bon an American c¢! tizen) & Paisothing happened. 2, fang Continued
14-00000 “The wy. clathes f. ad worg what I: veow York, 2 broczb: wot ge froeg coslent grwt to bay eoything. Fidel | a“ ‘Thy, gaite wae full of gure, and. papers.” she said. “Fidel bad pacers strewn all over the tsblea, the floor, “As ueu. the sve eae bitte red with papers wend the fseng tabrtet wae Open. “T couhint prab qvecpihings |b lene bad me Treasured for » usfurm go fi the bed, the dresser, He tad ose filing sa much as.) end ated etulled papers woskd loot: Uke a menier of the 26th cabinet that was never locked..Jt wee ard maps inty my uniform pen kote ged of Jale Kiuwement form with 2a Leutenant’s star, “That way, when | was allowed out! them Xut yerple would! them. ondér pusd. Ne theo thikx I wes one. ‘tha his officers. But pereile beard - oO . signed, ae ane . . J was bas se. . amet the| : zt Thee sald id : 7 vw this huze- Be. Tey thowed: me's ceil id@} . spent a eek ‘there, eating ‘the: fosa as the. 1. , sie bresd ac 8 cS . (home r wae the- only): woe w man thera oo z at ote Neher: wisz. “fken ‘the! gins Soules :. aver warching and; juiet, Then * can clast ged geld checks. ; @.guarés wr! “4 fone te gee if you'd! hanged -yoursnts 42 @ te cight or if, you'd done Naveed wrong $3 there where. there was hardly Fain to ty : dope Ader esas aye, 1 wee taken ‘ara flown bask te Hsvasa. out Marie wns ever twit wey she. was aifed, She ne isheres. Castro Bad her ‘locked. ub “Sa J cape, while: hee. wag out of the- country visting: the Enized States acd South Arnerica. . One night she was with Castro and his bedtctrvin in the SoLby of the ' ‘Riviere “ica when 0 hazdscuce, wavy | haired monk agproaéned Ker, He wore the obemstea tebe caltcha aod the Insignia GY a ‘cagtdin fa tae Cuban aig, 7 force: . ; While. Castro, was .esaferriez with hia: aides tp the ober side ef the lobby, tke cagtai a Eingied with the: barbudos scruhh 3s rie ad whispered to ber ia Ease : 4 kere aroul you.” ,. “Can you Sain me?” she sesponded, ; ‘ : ' “Can sou-gegurt out of Bere?? ft , “Yea with the Arcerican, . Embassp. 7 : : Tels Wes 49 : - Mandincve Sek. Florin’: “(hater know aa Frask Saurgis}), Castes covfidant. co, _ Intelligence Agency. Agrese to S2¥ on Fidel Foe the wxt few weezs Frank kept in “coatect Wink ber is gerson and throogh ‘Caitze officers Woo were ‘working For “im. Siacie agreed to spy on Casoré. Ste Giched tecees documents -sod renovttré Castro's everersations. ‘with immcans vidieers overkeard “throzgh tha ihntei walls Zy now, she: could read ank speas Syasicn fairly well. . AM Gluegreen unie’ -Falgescis Batista: pad touch with bis agents on. the @. Bal’ ¢Fidela’ bia other prisonere—| i ofe| anu nw he deft if males sivd eke dida’t eae. ‘gad ¥ired xgeet fos tke U3, Central: . gourds, full of money, papers, docaments, ; Maps. {I took papers out snd siipoed to Frask. Fidel baver mise { “Prank: said; “Get all the vary you | Sat god ae did. I was @ regular Mata Gautrs a a ‘Cubana: Alrlige leave i ‘operations. ‘to CIA contacts: ria: Havees and } ent- to ¢ ow. mp. that ¢. e. Sitibe. Ast . kis“ weual. . Clenaca de o Zaeia, he ditended (0 ‘cor entuunrage, Mar ty: dent Kennedy .and-Pramier- x Inside the Jacket, Toen © left the IL fon, went Gack to the ether feted, chanced Into 9 dress and cages te next flizhtte Miami - “Frank met me at thé sirgort. ‘sed i gave | hin all the papers; 5. never “haere . Renee 8 “the orlginal Soviet .mitasil were the: spots. ‘where H rf ‘Yases were bull -in. 1962; pate - the. ‘hlatoria.. showdown: + From” Information @ ‘She boarded Py régolar Cubsas A inen plies (by tourist - Suents jnslde- “Cube and’ Culan retorers,. fhe, posiniz g¢ ‘an American, | and cartylig hee Castro uniform and a foaded revolver in her overnight bag. She arrived in Havana a few hours | After Castvo left town: Americus were ati) welcame there in thove days, nad Cuban cuntome officers seldom searched a; tours’ lngeyage. : ' “Thera was no traublé, at the ale. port,” Maria said. “I chechtd into a i aleazy little Hotel in downtown Havana, | changed. inte ing Heutenant’s geiferm the outskirts of Havana, Casa Cojirner, but it was inore convenient for bis to: keep his papers at the Hilton. “He had Suite 2468 and the adjoin. cing suites, 1 had’ the key to: 2462. iNobady secovnized me when [ came Jnto the hotel. F Kad changed my hair stylé and made my complexion darker ifthan it ja naturally, And fowere dark i glasnes, They (0: , Wore her Hlasses, oven at might. 1 "A Jab of people were foitesing Ja the fobby, berdados and everyting. § i dual walled geld “Qleaanagts, Va: a the desk wai the main Ching that ‘Bethered. ime beenuae the dee sk elerng knew ine. I had a anub-nosed Special chipped te the . waistband, Noehody  seemied ; me, Po watked to the el-vatars and went up to the Lith four, Sew Her Opportunity “Nahady was around, deft, they ml) left wea bla: hia advisers, whatever. inside of my When Fidel bias busy» Wren | had lived ‘there, aiof evgrsthing was dead quart, er else Fidel wis there and thera waa a Jot of Hite ate Ciatg smoke, “EP uiloched the ducer to Suite 2103, went inside and dochie-leched) the cur Dehfind aee. f fete pretty confident be- cause | knew Fidel was at Ciccaga de- When he iefl ihe auite, no one, Zapata, E wus tu po in. Those were the orders. and ‘went direct lo the Havana Hiltoa, - Ry this tine, Castro hal a hume on. tre’ peeple) abl ad-caliber Detective: te natice’ Towas either afl alone: ith from. aerial’ photoes anaEDes. ieee: . U2 apy plités, the CIA. wha “alte ‘to Finpoint. afl thy adasilo haces on See island, Hut: Marig believes fee sede ister diva’ to Castry'a Inie gave Ue GIA fee first inkling-of whet the Hussiacs # ore. plotting. She alsa believes Castine. ert pected. she wns the burglar who sagt his caverets. (The CIA has deetics comment on Muarie’s Involvernint.). i In Afurch. abuu, soon after obe had ¢ conpleted this ailungerouy assivconent, Mire received a mysterious ‘ttegeasy T from Havana. Delivered bo her by ete” ee's npaktient of $44 W Bite Ze, maid? "CALL 2HU07 (Canten’s: private number) - LATE. AP “HIGHT. $178 VERY IMEOITA D iain . . It wa bigned "Yaner,” messing: Capt. Jesus Yainea Pelletier, we of Castro's cluscat ables, Marie's fs few. pulse was to tpasce the messaze, koe” curiugity overcante COMMOn aetue Without mentloning the télegran t9 her brother, she lefe the aLzcuaene ground nvifuiacht to place a esilest calf to Havinsy front a phone haath oo tae corner, « * Aa uke ateppsd inte the amall reeks buly between the outer and fares fa0n8- doors ta tie apartment house, tae seo grabhed her. One of them was Yanee. They had guna,” Marke recationd. “They wire gding “te (ike tae bed ta bontinved "aaa
o 28, ~ Cubs. Taner Said a pone wae waiting at Mlewild Airport. ‘They hit me in the °A person abo lived in the buildiog opened.dhe doce aml caw me screaming and fighting. This, Peason rad uw e Me wald the made three beak & * face and tried ta disg ‘nie oud dy. a ear, . Oslp. ta Cuba, de plics ie sate (esteg tverlny i kurte and, sup d- Riveraite ‘Deive, ‘The inter rnp.- worked with Frink and bath of whom were enntia peustitles, Ahw Reske, vt euneves wf the CBA, ‘tmennenge they neve aut Misted'on any federal layered ee “There's really aio cantiact,” she en: tracted the Cubans enough ’ so 5 “plained. “Nothing Je pul dopa oa.- “of bbe ke oe on ran I heard ont y ‘ “of the yell, ‘Shoot! Shoot! but. they _poper. You et” ‘ce doing: tl a oe “the pola yy untiy. Odi : dida’t- 1 rar up ta: Bras: way and found. dle the: et it Wa were were 2 ze but they” a ida because -he -had’-diploni ’ He hed: | sere i ee ms , f alay him. hen he . ture wf Rel " how ‘she’ hind: “Bnoaa ita, Frank: iP 1972. Four af athe we five—Sturyis, Bernaed, Harkey, Fugenio’ . _keojende Martines ‘ead. James W Mitord, then security. chied “far abe. Ssxen revlection fanpain cummittra were | fon - slghtan tap. hin, We. had the boaid, the plane. owas going tu: ga along. “Sat ad run, War Were all get chat i” wus. called off, - Boielunly stopieat it, Thai's all @ keow,” Marie~ fiaid bea American agents want -t6 Ciba to Assassinate Chaleé shortly before the Bay af Pigs Inva- Bun: : ~ * #E met tment a little. white hotise we iremced? the Cubsav culuny in . Miami v think it was da. Flagler St, @ wall” Rever stay in eae phicd too it venta house und “muve. on, | Afvway, ik wv. bee’ of mit niectings thist. dhe oS seal heavy! phan were former CLA employes, oo Pigs funding. Si wiow- fetion-writing masteimind - Watergate burglary, Aid he refenie to Sturgis, Harker ri Martinez eet rt testimany av “aumne ” GIA contact,” Marker “amd. Mattinez had ren itt Perparutionin for the Ray ‘unt, ihe ine| of my old. Sturgia returned to ashington this! ferath, nearly. three yeng  grfeit there, to testily at secret staré. ‘seiciais “of te Rockefeller: Comatission A feiivitivg Ne wan't: but ather -s aiter his. discias hiss ne waked ahout CEA one stings. PbRee iit. Th “we Aietivans went ia, but Jaw fron domeotic snying te Politival: they didn't get ont, They grew. bearils, ssurdere. dressed like Castea soldiers, 1 heard | bontinued they “caimi Very, very close to ‘Milling him at one of his spexches.” -
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14-00000 ec ee cae eee ee xaide says CIA a? a ee Aagsebe, spappened™ be} aud . Instead: on. Friday. - : VStrenath aod: ‘begli ‘using:  ‘Intelligetice ‘ ‘agency's estimat * Himes too low-. oe BALTIMORE 5 SUS : oat APR 1975 Mr. Adams said he sent his | documented estimates to his jSuderiors -at the ‘Central intel- ‘| ligeace Agency, . - jo! 600.600. - Later, NE. Adams ‘sald -he|’ ‘turned bis: attention to ike nuniber of Viet Cong ples in the . Saigon government. and]. Army. Al thé Ume, lie addéd, the South Vietnamese am ‘itary secirily service had about 300 Suspects ‘under scrutiny. Mr.- Adams said he afd a colleague eventually settled of’ a tenta. tive"Umire of no fewer thaal WOYViet Cong agents. _ MB, Adams: said he next}. Iminched: an’. inquiry ‘Into the Communist Army ‘ia ‘Cambo- din, estimated at the time as 5,000 to 10,60) men. He said the estimata was based on Rumbers put toxether” by a Royal - Cambodian Army ser geant in 1969. “E came to the conclusion.” |* Mr.. Adams writes, “thal the Site :of the Cambodian Coin- munist Army ; Was, oct 5,000 10:600. but miore [ike 160,000 to 150,00), In otlier words, the U.S, governnient's official esti- taale was between 30 and 30), ~ fused to comment. However, : Musson Td | , tor of” the: “Vice. Presid . - ds. probing, ¢ etivitis, ha: demanded in wrifing ‘that thel” CIA reves! all.its contacts witht would-be ‘Castro assissing, Jae}. formed sources said Thutsday.). Me. Belin, who was oa the - Warten Commission ‘staff, res]. W. David Sla‘xson, another} - ’ Warren Commision ‘alde, sald?’ Knowledge of. thé intelligence no agericy’s participation in a ‘plot to ki’ Premier Castro would]- have’ Infivenced ihe commis: ston's prode éf rimurs thal thel: Kenedy killing was a rélalia: + tory act ordeced by the: Ciiban premier. ‘It’ would be of enormous; - significance’' if-the Central In-| ° telligenéy. Agency withheld’ Ine formation irom the Warren}* Commission, Mr. Slawson said,}: adding (be possibility. sof the a Central: Intelilgence Ageucy’s; . involveniens in a plot to RMP “Premier Castto, “never” ote curted t9 anyone” on the com- -
14-00000 “8 | Cute Eecrven tai i; fi ile Sp Vv Lieto, secrets-steaier, gunrunter, guere - sand. of ‘rif! =, NEW YORK DAILY jews 21 APRIL 1975 bi tae CA i Cactro fmmedistely placed: his’ past officers ‘in “command ‘of -the E f hk” SANS pe 7 Cuban military services. Major “Pedro ; La BEG lose friend of Kagnk’s, be. By PAUL MESKIL. +» sin cbtef, of | the Ale spector. yeneral ofthat. . o- came! in, ped the Dist Lanz Ueoulers- ;  “T was @ spy,” Frank Stangis ‘fekct ” oe Ie Force ‘and they rade .. aduits. : oe he: Alr Force ‘anid 2 Tw. volved In assasaliia. "8: security and intelli hief, ~ “ton plots:an conspiracies te over, the cold 2 & - throw’ several” foreign ‘govern. She was's “ments, Includitig Cuba, Panama, Guatemala: the Dominican. Repub: - lic and. Hait 7 Te Oh B . He shys Sturgis. rome. , ¢ ae CIA employes: from. 1959'to, 4968," Aupport for a fiery youre rebel, ‘Figel |The Cla asked ‘him: to particinate Ane Caatro, a ho wae'then Hiving In Mexico. - assassination plots inCuba and else + Ia 1957, Prio-asked Frank to. “g9 to | where, Sturgis “Intfoduced tap Cuban (Cuba, join Castro's arm and fe: me{ military and political leadera to Amerfe ‘now what he's doing.” Prank accessed’ can paents at the U.S. Enibassy In Hava- BS miagbe he sti though | - nt P ; na. During these visits, a- conspiracy to ‘over was blown forever by-thé notarices APE aasigement, He flew to Havana sed] ua. Du e ‘piracy te received og a Watergate burglar, He with the belp' of s Cuban privat, he ers developed and other Cuban lead. onstructed and cobtfolled an espionage quickly leented Castro's canip in thet wr nieg oe , eg.” tegwork in. Cuba that is still funetloning Serr” Maestra Mountains and telua were a attempts sainst Castro's life oreea and the Regt pisnaate SECUTY * teered his services, ; Eoth failed. The assassina then ‘waited ‘Though Ke was-only a bit player la. “Fidel remembered me,” he said, “Wejfor a green Hght” from Frank Fiorini he Watergate drama, Sturgis is @ Feal- '¢ould mnderstand each other. Lepakelial-, Fooge’ A third attempt was made ia ife James Bosi) whose exploits rival aay which Se peilsr ° Spanish, age This reporter seked Sturgis shen the hose of any fictional apy. Interviewed: at train his troops, but he daid, ‘Frank, whet agency firat began thinking about astns. he office of bis Mian lawyer, “Elfie .T need. te guna” . : sihating Castto, aubla, and at other places in New York So Frank became a g: vj ' The first discussion of assiselnation es BD a anes ‘yank became a gun-runner, With! meus ase ae ‘ind Florida, he candidly revealed many “money snpplied by the Castro order-| With niy (CIA). coritacte wes in Pebri- ‘ Vetails: of his- colorful career’ as ai war ground. {a Flor be purchased thou-{ 2°¥, 1959, he replied. “1 was Nani Fee id. of rifles and other weapons from {Ports on-all the comete iat getlvity In ‘Alia Hghter and professional plotter. | Unterpatiznal ‘Acinament Carp. (Inter-| she military. ¥ suggested that this would Changed the sablact grea) of. Alexandtia, Va, the peaeld'y) Ue a food time to aosassinate Fidel. 1 gee thas | & “ largest dealerin garpivs army, He“iheni afd 3 would Organize it and. follow it , Asked if be had also been an sssae- “eet up an, elaborate and-tea-alr snug. trough, - . . fin, he politely changed the ‘gubject.!: gling' netsark to get the. guns and} “I would arrange an Important con. Some things ‘he will'not talk about | ’ promunizicn Inte Cuba. ., I ference at Campo Uibertad (Cump Liber. A stocky, fron-jxwed man who Jooks : iple Aaent uo Soy, the-eombined army-air force base and siueh younger than his 50 years, he waz. He Become Triple gen [avadquartery formerly known as Camp : ro out co All, the. top commanders “gern Feank Angela Fiorini in: ‘Norfolk, fter ‘al month cunta . fas He jeinéd-the US, Marine Corps até agen anti eens ‘oad Pheri would come tothe base in their jeeps aid |- he start: of World War IL and. fought ‘Frank teeag:e a triple agent. Thia time, Cars. 1 was going to Station gunners on hrough the Pacific with: the famed First ho was reeruited for the game of inteti-(the roofs, set up # crossfire, [ would taider Battalion. Afcer-the war, he SELV-, gence hy # #iajor league scout, Park PF. .bave wiped out Fidel, his brether Raul- ad in the Air Force, Army and’ Navy -Weolams ‘the. Stste Department official and all the top (pra-contmiunist) militsfy * 3% _ Reserve, a ‘then in charge of the U.S, Consulate iq commandets in 30 seconds, He had the perfect training for a ga. iBantiaga de Cuba, “E asked my contact In the Embase fy to get & green light (official Bpprove et arent. The Marine Cérps taught him “We met atthe Case Grande Hotel in #¥ i so - al) on this, Whether thie would have te “ido, knife-fighting and jungle warfare. Santiago," Frenk reesils. “Woolam xoew we ; come from the top level in Washington eciniques. The Air Force taught him to who I tas and what | wae doing. He iva plane aad the Navy Reserve trained -Spproached se or soimecne introduced Of Alower level, I den't know,' sea °. handle small, fast ships. - cus. We had several other meeting: ard While they waited for the rreen light, The Army completed this education.” he dizeussed my patiiolis:n and 46 Jerth. we! . during a hitch ia Germany, be was as-: J agreed to work with nim. continued ut “Later, wheo the revolution was over, ; ‘ET recived orders to go to jiavana. Wao ) . jlam told me who to contact in the Ameri " :ean Embassy there.” His new contacts, Frank said, were CIA agents, one of wnom was the embussy’s military ate. - ,fache. __ eee brother, - 4 eo fila. _