13-00000 "= ® ° FP . coma 08 HE y Malai Reem OTS: ae eee ee e ot . oo f . MN age ~~ sae og . “foe. ‘ “4 «. s é : . a - a Fe 0 8 og oS ® . ‘ : : - : i i. *. ‘ kney about the operaticn “but aida’? vant te know." Taschec says ‘ _ that FitsGerald imew that he and B@alpern vere seeing Guim. Halpern i agrees, but adds that FitsGerald id not know the specifics of the fabricating of an assassination device. a i : & & & & & i . ‘ } Peginning here, the narrative is again drava from records in the Project AMLASH files. ry se &e# & & & : i December 2 e POORLY Io o QR agit Gm gta, « . tt ° * ee er Ore Tans FBIS reported that Cubela returned to Cuba, from Prague. 19 February 1 . ; : . ar - . fhe SMAAVE Station reported by cable that two separate, ; identical caches would be explaced in support of Project AMLASE a . oo ole Ff o : ° . . (ioe oo, * | during March. Que would be put dova in Pinar del Rio on Operation “ZORRO. The other would te taken by the AMTRUIMKs to the AMIRUNK . Lk inNitration area. Each cache vould contain, among other things, two FAL 7. 62 automatic rifles. ° 6 March 1968 Cable from the JM#AVE Station: “Unless headquarters has overriding re ° s “ae rae ase Mehr ey) * ote Roan ed 5 ban wean dew ~ ‘eke : 2 ot eee ee te ane Set eng et, Se ome ob ates END : PRA RIURRIMA pee ar ne LTR wR IA atts ARS fe REAR 10 8 6 om Of mene MATER SEDAEEDEDS bee Geeta oe e ¢ ew ale . ! a: et 4 es age) au epicnntsiichs ag ~ ot eink girtritanerer tm  cnetsonstt ets RE RS Beet: anebaciy : ; a wwe oe map FT a SON OR ed ad &
13-00000 moe, oS wae oe? af Be ok er wer ee e" . “8, et. tt arnt Sa a eee ne eesommatces. ses an af ge RTO RPM, a em abe am tt e . reason unknown SAVE for including FALs in cacke tc Te carried by AMUN» wish stress followicg potat in Wave's cecision to elinizate FALs: FALs require 7 by 9 by 50 inch oblong cache container vhich is difficult to handle in the intermedlate craft." Tbarch 195% 2 6p ceocgmamags op ae tn Headquarters replied that: “Reason fer desiring include FALs is that this is.the main item requested by AMLASH-1." March 1 cage eR ROEED 260 GRE 8 OF -_ : The JMWAVE Station cabled: “Since cannot break down FALs to fit . @ ° avellable cache container shorter than 50 inches, will omit FALs ° from AMLASH cache.” ° . LT - 21 varch 1964 . “""; +) * . he AMLASE cache was put dovn on Operation AMTHINK VILE. - a > an : led aos °. *o aie -¢ woe etfs” -* wn 6 os . . ae “32 oo . a <2 i eee, lots . : + * ew cel, mo” a . . “Fee aa 4 43 * se "* 2& April. 196% - ; a Las SOE APART ORR taE RET Sm seTR AER MEE Om KERETN om tke 5 mimae ose en a . ~} Sh . « e 2 oo & » eens sqepte Py so pik | Beadquarters cabled the Paris Station that Carlos Tepedino hed been briefed to meet "who bas an -Smportant message fra Cubela.” : oo + “, 8, .% ° oes a ae ce, ar Tt) 3 sale Oe Biel gtey Saga Te os Rest hedsee tee: te? ts &, Sos 280 = aren Re ee Sse oe Sivedts  S o S* Fach es: Foe ee wt . wD bo oad . . Ata REVGA age CPAASTMeeatee LORARE RANCHES . . ve, i ‘ 7) ay ; ‘ 4% e ‘ ot yg IN Sia eR prem hes Bee ae PE wep age AT .. . . pete te ated apie.” ple cts Sang GA GT a ptm tanin ac Te patel cat a natin BE 4 Rate
13-00000 = SORE ae oummamnewe 2 owes AEP EPO S OY WEE Sn eee corte oo wo 6 0g ay May G44 fhe Paris Station reported that the message| hel frou Cubela vas that Cubela wanted.a sliencer for the Belgien FAL . subaachise gun soonest. . - 8 , i : SAS requested TSD to produce FAL silencers on a crash basis. . t. There are severnl later documents in the file describing TSD‘'s copes eo efforts to silence a FAL and to modify its sights for firing wer poor lighting conditions. SD eventually came up with a silencer | ® + wo ttia ed’. 6 CS ae and modified eanunition that fairly effectively silenced wuzele ot _ . blast and eliminated sonic boom by reducing muzzle velocity. “as .c o . e ° Z 9 ~ 11 June 196% : ° ae " : “ "  Qperation ZORRO put down an AMLASH cache on the north coast of ' 3 at : forte ig ORT OMe © By Die gr GA BEI ump + ams & SstswEERD - Pinar Gel Rio containing, among other this , “tyvo each FAL automatic fe : Onn laa, & e - rifles with five magazines per weapon.” Fo mention is made of " 7 te éllencers. From {SD's reports on developrent of a silencer, one was exGiBt ey 2 et etp TER ee . & . s not yet ready at the time the cacke was prepared. ° e ” "1 August 195% ae . +, The IMMAVE Station reported receipt of an S/d message fron - 97 - ; “Te et Te ane Bg Babee SO | te a Be sentir s bos bene: Aten rte Beker deers eer Rove weep dw Rte ed gin ei an GY sony tine mt enrlg tel hNI Alt Ot 8 te A Sn RIO ER args on Eel Sa Tea netle 8 ome he as wale wee we ete Ne ee rr
13-00000 . Se ee or Se aa) oe steps were being taken to recover its contents. The message said that “oo ¢ a” : oo, tee o” os “EU oe ga ¢ ? . Py o A o% . ahs "4 oe - oo nares o 2 Ow ate, ~- we NN BES ow neh “a mates * ‘ene e . o 4a Rede wobsed Ses mane weeie f ° 2 : 4 AMIRUIK-10 dated 18 July. It stated that the AMLASA cache put dowa in the AMTRUGIK infiltration area had been located and that we beet ue zt 4% was hoped the cache contatred “tvo kigh-povered rifles vith silencess,* because ‘AMTRUSK-15 was nat sat certain that he ‘could recover the cache put down in Pirar del Rio by Operation ZCRRO. | 30 August 195% Menuel Artime received information through Madrid that a group Of dissident meabers of the Castro regime desired to establish direct contact, with Artime. On 7 October 1964, an Artime associate . i went to France for a meeting with an intemediary fron the dissident group. The intersediary vas named as Alberto BIANCO Rosariz. bone "12 Roveaber 196% ee Cee a ea) “sacart Se. Gaal ASS eonsar ee sree ante ye 8 Phnibe faa! Wii eosin Fone bvte Sate EatlitM O tanta seat os A ETE Ny Paw eee ee te ° Fals report: “A delegation of the University Student Fedration of Cube arrived in ‘Prague on 31 November to participate in the neeting . cor of the Executive Coumcil of the International Student Union to be . held fron 14 to 17 Koveuber. The delegation is made up of . . . Maj. Rolando Cubela, who will attend the event as a special guest of the IUS." ree ee ee RR ns oan geass: ee Sey eget ~~ ceiigntieemae Atlee mer ede re ne Serco netes a oe
13-00000 oars “ee : c ¢@ : . 3 “ft : o1 Bp em nee ono a te te me em ene nt eo ame bate eng mien ins e : 4 : ¢ . tn 2 bats b eae 8 at tow f ‘Pe let os a 8 aay owe RR, eT 13 Noveater 195% . | * ots ep de elena = ‘ Contact report of e meeting ix Yashington with Artime: “Artize co mee agreed to talk to AMLASE~2 if 1% tusms out that he is the contact mas as rere. wk Ba KEaeee GH - oS vee for the internal dissident group. Artime thinks that if AMLASH-1 is ° the chief of the dissident group we can all Zorget about the : . ; operation.” 25 November 1964 ’ fhe Paris Station reported Cubela’s arrival in Paris. _ 4 December 196% ( Restor Sanchez prepared a memorandum request for $6,500 aé an extraordinary budget expenditure for the travel of Artime for maintaining contact with the internal dissident group's representatives os eve eae aneecheen ve in Europe during Hoveaber and December 196%. There is no direct . _ ‘i+ + dndfeation in the file that the request was approved, but indirect (92° i dca e & : . . e . . vom a Bones : "evidence indicates that it was. Artine did travel to Europe and maintained the contacts. oo . s . _ . ' . iY 6 ~ 7 Decenber 19S+ Sanchez met Cubela in Paris. This és a susmary of the details reported by Sanchez: Cubela, althozgh wnADY because he vas unable ?- ° * . . 8 eine women sabeseaoree PORE AW URGE Ps WE Tae PARTI cate. aERseelle HOVER GND +440 OLTMMED ree OMBATIN OE ORO ATED > te : . “6 : _% G
13-00000 age . . . a " - . . . . . 33 * Pate & came eeme sce oe : - - eo. _ 2% b om 4 2, am wena qentsEeh a . a 8 a om eppte , Gy ap tenements. to carry out his plans during the past star, continued to feel that his solution to y the Cuban problea was the osty ore feasible end that he kad to coatinue trying. Cutela was told ttat the U.S. Covernment Orb cate ane caAR a. ee could not and vould not in eny way tecome involveé or provide assistance fin the tasx he kad. planeed for hiscseif. Cubela appeared te understand our positics and said that Lf te needed help ke would look elsevhere. . . 10 December 1964 - ; ; Menorandum prepared by Senches end left vith | of the ‘ “Paris Station, as background on the then current status of the AMLASH oes ot GOMER fobs ofa ay ti Om awe os 6 rg i . . : semeoepions atten qumeylge operation--excerpts: . "“Axrtime does not mov and ve de ust plan to tell hia that we are in direct contact with Cubela, nor does Cubela mnov and we ° - do not desire he know tkat we ere in direct contact with Artime. an Sr BE O go ey Om cw Bee er) +5 . “Cubela was told and fully understands that U.S. Government “3 _ tee” . : cannot become involved to eny degree in the ‘first step’ of his . a plan. If he needs support, -he realizes that he vill heave to : a mt, get it elsevhere. FIT: his is where Artine could ft ia . ee ee, (coument:: Sanchez explained to us that what had happened o gts a pe’ was that SAS contrived to pus Artime ani Cubela together in such ° @ way that neither kmew that the contact kad been engineered . _ + “By CIA. The thought vas that Artine needed a man inside end 2° Sit, EB Set EER a NIL BPE sa @ i i ° ae we * @ ' Cubelea vanted a silenced weapoa, whicn CEA was ucviliing to furs stsh *, are fe 4, fas ry . . . a . . € FP REAR pe PUA STS: oul we te the gas 7 “Ss Seatent woke eee wt ers Srey a, rt te Sains or — ara Sc)
13-00000 he 68 gy") tage. 7 socmmate « drome chen < Bnet 26 Mm teD am om wm ew -ot-an heen ex RORY AE aR . to nin dlrectiy. By putting the two together, Artine cight get i his ran inside and Cubela might get his silenced weapon--frox “ j . . Artime. CIA did not intend to furnish an assassination veapon for Artine to give to Cubela, and did not do-so.) | , 17 Decester 195% i j . . t : Readquarters cable to Paris: “Waen contacts Cubela to : ‘ Gebrief him, . . . please confism statement by Cubela to Sanches that : s only money and a fev como items vere retrieved by the fishermen. eo as ° a Cubela and AMIRUIK-10 unhappy that fiehersen bad not recovered nore ) 8 i CG ‘from the cache, but it was not possible for Cubela and ANTRUNK-10 : to go to the site of the cache personally. (Cudela had told Sanchez . * that AHTRUNK-10 had used seme "fishermen" to recover the cache and that not all of it was recovered. This was the cache put dovn in the AMTRONK infiltration area, vhich did not include the FAL rifles.) a oh Gbe ae « 26 mete ween De eeigytnatt® & oT Ate Artime and Cubela met for the first tine--in Madrid. . : 30 Decenver 195% ° i _Artine and Cubela met: for a-second time in Madrid on 30 Deceater. - Artine reported the results in a meeting witn Yestor Sanchez in ont Florida on 3 January 1965. Cubela told Artine that he bad requested ae cree mrenesnaaery oan CHR. 2 AP EA WR PARI.” OPE LI O. oo etme Pree eet, ica AS os one. nye Sh. art pies Seeeriertimer et: ot section | teri rent wate Co se RE ALG, Ceo Meg Ramen ato wy megane aed ion cM -glthin tp Amasagen ee R ies Oe oe wae
13-00000 a ey . es te wm @ silencer for a FAL rifie tras the americans, wiich they ned sce Leen adle to provide. Artine egreed, to furnish -:ither a silencer for a io: val or a cosparable rifle vith silencer. If Artine obtained a +f i silencer for a FAL, Cubela would personaliy carry it back to Cube with his. If Artice had to seltle fer sose other type of silexced rifle, he vould cacze it in Cuta for Cubela. & 28 January 1955 ents t as sma PemeEE ened: gut & Sanches arrived in Paris for meetings with Cubela. - ar . * 2 February 1965 Sanchez cAbled from Paris: "Cubela and Tepedino returned Peris 31 Janvary. Met 1 February. Cubela states full agreement reached "with Artime and be vell satisfied with arrangements thich he outlined for our information (elemg same lines as reported by Artime).-. 2... « ho erm: _—_sArtime providing package in Madrid which Cubela plans carry back fa ee om & . . a ¥, °° 26 22 . : “ . - 8 ~ ett wee . eo Sanchez cabled. from Paris: “As of Hovenber 196% when Cubela departed “Cuba nefituer he nor AMTRUNK-10 bad received any part of the Matanzas Say ee Oe . . cache. AMIRUYK-10\:told him fishersen recovered money and perts of communications gear but that money. vas no good since it was in a series out of circulation.” 5 rad 5 ts 2, g 8 i] ‘ e Ul an Ls r) : 29 Ramee netrae vat PviEabieearer tama aiateaeen hamemenmamen eye typed fon 4m 8, (RUD Bd on, era GOON 2° be B ase. red EPO Y “eat, . . oe Jeg ot ae: cab Togo ee tan. we ee ee od rientees Siaesis hl aS ARE ae e wt Fog * ba * - Lane oe a Ae wie cays megane tem ie SSSR RRA. ee nme, bee EO, SO o 2 O50 ame Be SFT ee lye RAE Bowe Ee ee aie 7 “ee 8. ® pene tions malagesionre wei PF ads et mio Reales “Sete tg Aiprcen y o Suct oin  Sath t Batanga Sat ee iad cit Ps Reo Rtas tare oP
13-00000 me f. . ; PA ATES TT sgters *  . . wadoemed wo dnte Asean d ‘ H ~~ ° ( ‘ 5 * be 46.03 : 2f TPR Madrid Station casted: “From Cutela on 10 Febtvary: Ca 10 or LL February Cubela 13 to receive one pistol with sileacer and one . Belgian FAL ritle with Silencer fros Artime's cecretary. oth yeapoas come froa U.S. and sow ia Madrid." (This is ia contLict with the ' . . earlier report that Artine would cache a rifle and sileacer a2 chat : i were all ke could find. We are unable to resolve the conZlict.) ° le February 1553 fee Pacasa cit ty Station cabled; “Artime reported on final meeting G with Cubsla: Artine had three pacages of spectal items nade up by  s his technical people and delivered to Cubela in Madrid. Cubela seemed satisfied.” ; & Marched 1955 . . i Carlos Tepedino reported receiving a telephone call. froa a : - friend in Havane who had seen Cubela back in Eavana the previous day. 4 aemae? 15 March 1985 10 ot aapanwin om watson gues ° bad arrived in Madrid fran Cuba on 15 March and bed been Introduce” . . * us =< to a station officer. Garcia-fango claimed to te in contact with a AO MEP eT AS YOR a a SEAS a ; . seanry SEN Oki ty i & | i t | . | Whe Maria Station cabled that one Rafsel GARCIA-BUGO Dizube tw omen, a © commen otek cua aralcaticcn setae ten east siica oe fics aeer dtnleipt tnt testcase ie tinors o ete) : net om, GSEB ~ ° 27-2 “BB 6 ote ween nee ae Bote emt > a Laser, ee were el gig genie 48 eteidnard mae pipes te Na Ce or 8 GA tH ett ATU ef MEO Ne i 9 agit ei EB ooo abt het Lee cate Fpl ites 8 toon cache lt A ne itt haath 0% es om iat AAS Pe E ae