AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: | 124-90135-10313 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: _105-82298-130 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SA TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 05/24/1961 PAGES: 61 SUBJECTS : ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT. CLASSIFICATION : — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact ' DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/25/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : RPT v9.1 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 1
yO oe | SECRET. BA » 105-2118 One copy of this report is being furnished the Legal ‘Attache at Madrid and Paris for information in view of the interest of those offices in this matter. ( ) SAN ANTONIO: > Wild maintain eontact with officials ; at. INS . Alien: Detention Facility relative. to the Subject ;. and his status. ‘ | } | ®\ sar uc ALLEN, TEMAS: ne” | INFORMANTS Soe . Careful consideration has. been” given. to the == =" sources Concesied and "T"-symbols utilized only. in: ‘instances where’ identity of. source: must be: ‘concealed. - identity of Source . , File: Where ‘Located | ‘SA T-1; _ OTHER 4 ———— , ; ‘information to .the. Legal Attache, Madrid, ‘per letter 7/29/60, from . , | Legal Attache, Madrid, ‘ to the Bureau. See report: of SA; THOMAS H, ERRION, 11/3/60; at Miami, “captioned, : “CHANGED : - ELOY GUTIERREZ _ MENOYO, aka, Kiko Pernas , . Is'- CUBA. ” 105-2118-51 - .. SA T-2; [“SULIEN VERNIMMEN,: Beigian . | Security Service; set. out | /in. Legal Attache, Payvis, y/ letter to Director, 1/11/61, Captioned, “ELOY GUTIERREZ \ MENOYO,: aka, IS. - CUBA. aan - 105-2118-51 f . 255 i. ahi - - B- COVER PAGE SECRET | HW 45875 DocId: 32336918 Page 2
| SA. 105-8318 SA T-3 2 | rs) @ New °°" York Office. of %} : New York Office A 7-5: kept - up to date on the status of use: ‘of. referenced. communications. \s Py ELEANORE SCHOENBERGER, fo) e and Madrid. CLASS ; This report is. it. contains informatiom classified, It is note t that tnt information furnished by[ (SA T-3). New York letter to D i eid nc =* Tsu | ADMINISTRATIVE It is noted that ‘the. investigative period is lengthy; however, the Bureau and Office of Origin have been ‘Two additional copies of this report are. being furnished the Bureau for transmittal to Legat, Paris Pied "Secret" inasmuch as¢ ~ “ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO, IS - DOMINICAN ’ REPUBLIC’ - CUBA," contains. instructions that any report containing. information. furnished by.. SANCHEZ RAMOS should be classified "Secret. “fO a] ~— SECRET Identity of Source CONEIBENTIAL File Where Located _ OTHER 4 105-2118-43. 105-2118-54 105-2118.-78 this. investigation through © : Translation of the. article which appeared in= the February 12, 1961, of Diario Las Americas, was: done | am ce. / IFICATION ESA T-5), which wee so > 1S) OTHER 4 captioned, SECRET | . : HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 3
a 4 . tp SEUnck MULEY in care of ARTURO G. MATA, Poste Restante Central Lieges, Belgium. He stated that when he was about ready to leave Madrid, Spain, he sent a telegram to the above mentioned address, and addressed it to ARTURO G. MATA. He stated he did not know recall the contents of this telegram, but that he was certain that he did not state that he was leaving Spain with instructions for MATA. On arriving in Brussels, Belgium, GUTIERREZ attempted to locate both MATA and MULEY through the Cuban Embassy located in Brussels, but was un- successful as no one there appeared to know either of these individuals. He said he then sent MATA a second telegram to the Same address in Lieges, Belgitm, but received no ~ response. The Cuban Ambassador to Belgium then ‘personally © drove him to Lieges, Belgium, and the two of them managed to locate MATA through inquiry in @ bar in the Spanish © colony in Lieges. GUTIERREZ stated that after he met MATA, the latter introduced. him to ADDERRAMAN MULEY, and he admitted that the threeof them discussed Spain and” ‘its present problems, and that MATA and MULEY both informed him that \they were actively engagéd in fighting against ZFRANCISCOMPRANCO. GUTIERREZ stated that both ADDERRAMAN MULEY andARTURO G. MATA were members of the Directorio © Revolucionario Iberico de Libere@cion (DRIL), and that he believed ADDERRAMAN MULEY was one of the directors of DRiL. GUTIBRREZ-said he had no prior knowledge of ARTURG G. WATA, and did not know if he had ever been in Cuba, or whether he had nnections with the present | regime of FIDEL CASTRO. KW) SA T-2, 2a Confidential Source Abroad, advised on December’ 28, 1960, that. ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO was reported to be a leader of the organization known as DRIL, and that he reportedly was sent to Belgium for the purpose of organiz- ing the Liege Branch of this organization, and that he had ‘come to Belgium t find out as much as possible about DRIL and its real value as a movement capable of overthrowing the FRANCO government in Spain. SA T-2 further advised that GUTIERREZ MENOYO arrived in Belgium by air from Madrid on July 21, 1960, and that since he had entered Belgiun clandestinely, and since his presence was considered to- be dangerous for the public welfare, GUTIERREZ MENOYO was the object of an explusion order issued on August 10, 1960. G) 23 SECRET. p80 219-130 | HW 45875 DocId: 32336918 Page 4
a ee SECKiA. SA T-2 advised that GUTIERREZ MENOYO had been arrested on August 6, 1960, and that after the issuance of the explusion 4 order, he was released on August 11, 1960, and left: Belgium — ‘ by air for Paris, France, on August 12, 1960. T-2 further ow savised t! CONZALEZ,) vie 1 named_GONZALEZ_ARTURO TA pspo, -P—. , or TOR LLEDO, a. Spanish natio als rf. | - associated with D oA arrested on thé same day as we oh and Was. expelled from Belgium on August. 185 | (2 | | Continuing the intexview, GUTIERREZ ‘MENOYO stated | that he remained in Lieges, Belgium, for about three days, | visiting with individuals who lived in the Spanish colony ‘in | that city, when he was suddenly arrested, piaced in jail, and threatened with a return to Spain. He said he is certain | - that the FRANCO government in Spain put pressure on the Span- 3 - ish Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, to have Belgium police ~ | arrest him, and place him in jail. He said that after about three days the government of Cuba lodged an informal com- | plaint with Belgium, and arrangements were then made to expel him from the country. GUTIERREZ said he signed the explusion order, but did so. under protest, claiming that ; the arrest had been illegal and that his incarceration was 2 je therefore without grounds. o/ —_—-A GUTIERREZ stated that he flew from prusseis 661 Jium; to Paris, France, and remained in Paris about 15-days, during. | which time he lived at the home of a man pane JYALVAREZ, whom he desgribed a5 an employee of the Cuban Embassy in Paris. 7 He Said that during this time he visited the 5 anish | Présidént - ‘ in-Exile, & man name HERRERA, who lives in Paris. He stated that when His vacation in Paris was nearly completed, he o/ attempted to arrange for a return to Cuba by way of the ‘United Aor States, but could not do so, and finally obtained airlines 4 tickets for a return flight by way of Lilsbon, Portugal, Santa Maria in the Azores, and from there to Cuba. He said he 1 spent six days in Santa Maria, the Azores, waiting for the > Madrid-Havana plane. While there, he stated that Portuguese I authorities examined him very closely, which was undoubtedly | performed at the instigation of the FRANCO government in r Spain. GUTIERREZ, in commenting on his European trip, stated that the trip had no intelligence nor espionage aspects or significance and that he had made the trip WW 7 | . bb 24 — i a ~CRET! 10S 22-150 HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 5
SA 105~5118 SECRET} Vas recentiy overheard: to remark -that GUTIERRE™ “‘MENOYO* ‘was now Living in Miami, ‘Florida,. and that he Was @ dedicated Gommunist wha’. lately. ‘Was supposed to have fallen in-dis- favor with CASTRO which eaused | hin. to leave. Cuba.- *. SA T-5; another Government agency that. ‘conducts » intelligence’ investigations, advised that a source--who’ had - not been evaluated, had advised. that leaders’ of ‘underground MEREL-CAS 2tThO geoups in Cubs were shocked on “hearing: ‘Of the - fection 62 Hajer BLOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO, and a group of followers, and of thelr arrival in the United States.. ¥ Ry: od these leadérs considered GUTIERREZ to be.an Agent Prevecktou®Y, na. were veported: as. having reason to believe chat. two Of GUTIERREZ* companions, ANGEL. BANOS, and “KIKOe” PERWAS, were. actually Cuban intelligence ‘agents. - Source’ seid eepresentatives of anti-CASTRO groups in’ the" United States have been advised not to trust GUTTERREZ or any. ° : member of his group. fun) CN . ™~ -SA T-2, mentioned previously as having furnished . information concerning GUTIERREZ’ connections with the’ ~ organization known as DRIL (Directorio Revolucionario Iberico de Liberacion) (Revolutionary Iberian Directorate. of Liberation), also furnished the following additional information concerning the DRIL and ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO: (3) According. to. SA. T-2 ages ‘active members of . the -DRIL included: bb, . Went . [oe 28 ef, Lee BY , Saari ation, ¥ Spaniard, employed at the “Madrid ar’, Liege, Belgium AL | 2 Dfoourny i2) Se fol “Madrid Bar." “fa x =< 2 lives in Lice Beigua. mer omnes Sed 4. PENA (MAXIMO), a. Liege architect. 7 (Ss) 19. SECREP 1OS-F 22498 -/30 | HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 6 . a
BA 105-2118 SECRET) . cenad §] | “co , “ & “wi oe j i, / Oo C- oe (oe -) ve Ro ) - : SATA (JUAN). 71? _ _————— D 67 XSANTORO_(GUILLERMOY, lives in Germany. 7 Mheuriino. > 4 jac - / omemennnrrermont Libew n ' - 8. ROIO, RUIZ QHARIA), brought funds from eithis for DRIL. “A? ee . | el on {JOSE}, a resident of Venezuela. cian meemermmanacicnneed, 10 suse (ALGNZO) foe . S) of A Relate Stecele . - £s previousiy noted by. SA T-2, ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOCYO gas arrested on August 6, 1960, in Belgium, at which time he was in the company of the - following individuals: 1. V R050-RUIZ. | Aes ome smaauany 2 Cg 3. GONZALEZ-MATA-LLEDO_ (ARTURO) "A Cow HOVOA~ (REYES pele be Meera, - - BG - ete In possession of ROJO-RUIZ were the. following items: _ An automatic gun with leader and cartridges; A loaded stick; A fired stick; A firing device, without the. detonator and explosive charge; Four copies of a complete sabotage ‘handbook, in Spanish, with sketches. of mahy explosive contrivances, among them 2. booby “trap book with directions regarding sheir (5) use e . ‘ * ~50— SECRE a - 7 | | | | / OS-F 22 B30 HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 7
‘a - (SA 105.2218 | SECR ETI ee co an In possession of MULEY-MORE, were: the. following | items: . : ee A revolver with cartridges; So A loaded stick.. SO : 6) | Accerding te SA T.-2, all of the persons in the SPER nigetion E20Wn 2 DRIG are referred to under the’ pseudo- ya oF ¢ the first name under which they: operate as agents £ the ORIL. These are; ew higcon ; “, an yee PEER“ i6 MOLEY-MORE (ABDERRAMAN) 5 \ rar. MAREA" is ROJO-RUIZ (RAFABL-MARIA) 5 EMTS RD AIEEE ot “JUANJO" is GONZALEZ-MATA-LLEDO (ARTURO) ; "ELOY" is GUT IERREZ-MENOYO (BLoY) F “ "MARINO" is MARIN-NOVOA, REYES. , “MIRKO" is. (SANTORO (GUILLERMO) ; fsustin® i SaLVARE ONTERO (JUSTINO) ;. Ce he eee eed —_x*austavo™4 AS anne yfGonoso (SANTIAGO) Ve ee" fea ea) tS nna ; JOSE-MAR IA" ‘is\x6or1cuEz (JOSE-MARIA) . ¢ S) / PUMA OWT (. soneanturagg wrens . ~ SA T-2 also advised that MART INEZ-DONOSO- (SANTIAGO), born January 7, 1940, Madrid, Spain, who was a Cuban national, was in Madrid from approximate ly April to June, 1960;: that , MARTINEZ was an agent of DRIL; that MARTINEZ’ cousin "had been shot following bombings . in Madrid; that he had fled to Belgium where he wes in contact with DRIL ‘re oy joontatives: and that he returned to Cuba in July, 1960. = mam wee cen SA T-2 said further that at the ‘time GUTIERREZ MENOYO was. in: Europe in the summer of 1960, that he was. carrying out what was referred to as the "ELOY" mission. (5). ~S1-  AEOREY 10578 2058-10_ | HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 8
oe. SECRET SA 105-5118 CR cE.) ( GUEIERERZ is vegarded as a hero of thé Cuban Revolution.” ” For this reason, FIDEL CASTRO Would”be inclined ‘to entrust ' t@ him e sum of 60° million. pesetas which was ‘collected: by = Soaniards living in Cuba. This sum-might constitute a fighting i foe the D&IL, but before raleasing that sum, FIDEL CASTRO anid to have asked "ELOY" to. get information in Burope about $b DRIL and its real efficiency as a movement capable of over~ throwing: the PRANCO government. “RLOY" thus Was ‘said to: have: eomey bo Liege, Belgium, fur the purpose of méeting “PEPE” whe: sight have becca in &@ position: to give him the information. — Hesides, he had to consider. the possibility of a trénsfer from Cube ; via the a)o banks, of the large amounts destined: EB eho SRT. ‘On Apvil. 6, 1961, ELOY GUTIERREZ. MENOYO was again. -taterviewed by SAS. ZACHRY’ and HAGY, at ‘the’ U: Ss. immigration. ghd Raéturalization Service Alien ‘Detention: Facility, WoALien, Texas, Concerning the information attributed.to SA T-2, set. out directly above. Prior to initiating. the interview, » a GUTIERREZ was. reminded that he did not have:tomake any state- ment, that any statement he did make could be used against hin in a court of law, and that he had the right to legal counsel. He stated he understood this, and voluntarily - furnished the following information: () TC He said he was not acquainted. with MAXIMO | ‘(BERNARD ) or DOMINGUEZ (ANTONIO). He pointed: out that in a a prévious interview he had advised that in attempting to locate. ARTURO G. MATA in Belgium, that he and the. Cuban Ambassador . to Belgium had gone to Liege, Belgium, where ‘they. managed © ‘to locate MATA through inquiry in a. bar’ in the Spanish -colony. in. Liege. GUTIERREZ. said ‘* was entirely possible that MAXIMO and: DOMINGUEZ. Ta. ( the ys) ns at this bar who assisted them in. locating MATA, (@ oe L I HW 45875 eee . Concerning 4 > ‘wow, ” GUTIERREZ said. he was certain that this posson was identical with: ‘the ADDERRAMAN MULEY mentioned by him in a previous interview as one of the directors of the DRIL. GUTIERREZ said MULEY, who “also used” thé” name” OF ‘ROJAS , Was one ‘of those arrested with him Ogg) , ~52— SECRET ‘10S-§2 2495-130 DocId: 32336918 Page 9
. - . er - SA 105-2118 SCRET) is Liege, Belgium, on August 6, 1960. MULEY was later freed by Belgian authorities and returned ‘to: Cuba; GUTIERREZ saw: and talked with MULEY in Cuba, and bélieves that he still Lives in Cuba, GUTIERREZ said he. vaguely recalled that ‘MULEY ugad the nick name of “PEPE.” He-~-said MDLEY told him that the: FRANCS’ police: pe ce tried to kill him, but did not say when .. oz where, ls E Consexuing PENA (MAXIMO), GUTIERREZ. said. he had been - introduced to S person of thi ie by. MULBY , but that he had ! ne ether contgst. with PExA.(! [: : i ; ; CSAler ni ng MATA (JUAN) ; SANTORO (GUILLERNG) ; any SAD TLENO. ASTLERREE said he knew no, one by these AIC ; aichough he ae heard MULEY speak of a aYuIRKO."/ syrumno. \QWOCY. (o S) oo 1942 “oy arrasas, 7 orterning ROJO-RUIZ (MARIA), “GUT TERREZ said he . knew no one by this name, but that: ‘he had met a. man ‘ named xtoo, other names unknown, in Belgium, through MULEY, and that ROJO had been arrested with him on August 6, 1960. He described ROJO as -a Spaniard, about 40 to 45 years old. ‘He said he later met ROJO with MULEY in Cuba, and lea from him that he was going to. Venezuela from Cuba. ROSS thc] ¢€ , cervemssse (JOSE), GUTIERREZ said he knew of no one by this na iI Sard ROJO mention a.person named VELO; cou ecall no details concerning this con- versation. ie: (WK) sy AO JUS ALONZO), GUTIERREZ said he knew t, of no one by this name. (¥) (s) : —— ‘ GUTIERREZ said the only one of the above persons known by him to be connected with DRIL, was MULEY, whom believed was one of the directors ‘of this organization. Q) Ne | Concerning his arrest in Liege, Belgium, on August 6, 1960, GUTIERREZ said it was his recollection that there were five persons arrested with him. He said that in. addition to himself, the man named ROJO, MULEY, ARTURO G. MATA, @ man named ANTONIO, and a youth whose ‘name -he could i -53- . I . { 10S-&§ 2-246 -130 | , ‘ HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 10
mea. 7%) BLS \5\ Was not, and had never been, a member of ~-_ G8 205~2218 ‘SECRET not now recall, had been picked up by the Belgian police - and jailed for several days. The arrest, he Said, was. based Gn charges that those seized were "undesirables" Sad théy were subsequently ‘@expsiled from Belgium. Hé™ AdMisted thet those arrested with him had been discussing » Spein and the FRANCO governnuent, but insisted that they haa not been participating in a-DRIL meeting. He also x DRIL. / Concerning the List of pseudorys, which 5A T-2 stated were wei zee bY DRIL members; GUTIERREZ said he vAsuely feealied that: MULEY "used~ the nick nams “PEPE” while - ke “hed heard MULEY “aver of-a “MIRKO;" He, himself, has alvays used the namo ELOY, which isa: given name and not & mick name or psecudonym. He said he vor heard of . any of the other names on thie list. C4HX9 ~ Concerning SANTIAGO MARTINEZ Cx GUTIERREZ said he knew of. a@ young man by this name, “about 20 years old, a Cuban citizen, whose father worked for’ Iberia Airlines in Havana, Cuba. Following GUTIERREZ return to Havana, from Europe, in the. late summer of 1960, he was contacted by MULEY and the man known to him as ROJO, who informed him that MARTINEZ was & member of the DRIL, and that following the bombings in Madrid, Spain,” MART INEZ and his cousin had been seized by the FRANCO police ’and the cousin shot; that ~ MARTINEZ then made a deal with the FRANCO police for his ‘freedom in return for which he was to assassinate GUTIERREZ. Shortly thereafter, MARTINEZ appeared at GUTIERREZ’ home” in Havana, on a pretext, whereupon GUTIERREZ confronted MARTINEZ with the information furnished by MULEY, and ROJO. He said MARTINEZ broke down and cried, but denied ever having. made any deal with the FRANCO government , stating that there was no reason for him to help ithem as they had killed his - cousin. GUTIERREZ said he thoroughly questioned MARTINEZ and finally arrived at the conclusion that he was telling the truth, and he then decided to question any further information furnished to him by MULEY and ROJO. GUTIERREZ said he had no reason to believe that MARTINEZ actually — for MARTINEZ, apart from SANTIAGD MARTINEZ DONOSO, and that intended to kill him. He said he knew of no’other name. CZC'b ~54- | HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 11
GA 105-2118 SECRED he: had” 2e “Penson: to believe that this was net ‘MART YNEZ* /9 ‘true-name. He' never saw MARTINEZ after this’ encounter XU , Concerning the “ELOY” mission, GUTIERREZ said there “PISS ebsolintety . ho truth in thé facts alleged by SA T-2 in ~ this regard.” He said, however, that he had information” ‘that > CASTRO'S government was. furdishing money to the Communist “Party in Spain. He stated in this” ‘regard, that a friend, whom he’ said he did net wish to identify, had actually seen» Gs pe mad copied the coutents of a letter, dated October 20, 1960, at Madrid. Spain, directed to, RAMIRO VALDEZ, head of cups ea pe in Hevana, Cuba, from MARINA CARCTA . the Cultural Attachs SE e “Cuban: Bmbaesy in ee mene oN . ca ‘Ry Elcom ear. a JI CHS 1st ter © made “x reference C8. oY AARGUELLES, who was” ‘Chief: . he™ Departazento Tecnico doing Stigaciones. del Ejércite” Sebelde, jones a spain, PRED Bey” dollars for the® ‘povolutionanies” in Spaia The Valley Morning Star, a morning newspaper pub- lished daily at Harlingen ; Texas, in its. issue’ of. April 22, 1961, contains an article captioned, "Ex Cuban Consul’ Refused Interview - With 13 Nationals Held at McAllen." © According to + article, which is date: lined Bt. McAllen, | Texas,” ——— as, then DE HARTE, | former: Cuban Co Tampa, Florida, w tcAlicer in an attempt to obtain the release of 13 Cuban nati¢nals, ‘then. being held at the McAllen Facility: of. the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. ' The ticle noted that ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO was one of the 18 Cubans, whose release was sought by DE. CHARTE. whe “da Tegexr rs "On ASFIL 30, 1961, RENB/DEC of Miami, Florida, - C*/%j advised SA RICHARD S.. CLARK thaf/‘he was\formerly Cuban: Consul Tyas at Tampa.for.the CASTRO administration, but has ‘defected ~~” and new lives at Miami. He ‘advised that he has just > returned from Texas where he. made’a trip to see. about the release: from custody of ELOY GUTIERREZ. MENOYO, being. detained at McAllen, Texas, by the U.S. “Border”. Patrol. He advised that. he has been. contacted. by. numerous - federal authorities concerning GUTIERREZ MENOYO and. has furnished them with his views concerning GUTIERREZ MENOYO and wanted to go on record again.as vouching that GUTIERREZ MENOYO is’ sincerely anti-CASTRO, and was not a-communist. He advised that GUTIERREZ . MENOYO acted as @ double agent: fox CASTRO in exposing a Dominican plot because TRUJILLO ~55— ~ tte cD UO. m7 HW 45875 DocId:32336918 Page 12 /OS-EZ EGG AZO a A ETS SO | os ee wet