@ | "OBJECTIVE GOAL #1 To determine Antonio de Varona's role in the activities of Central Intelligence Agency- sponsored "and privately-funded anti-Castro Cuban groups: > “including all assassination attempts. LINE OF QUESTIONING (A. RESCATE 1. Pre-Castro Era | a. Dates in existence | @ a | b. Personnel | | ¢. Political Alignment d. Major Activities CO | 2. Anti-Castro Era a. Dates in existence b. Personnel | | c. Political Alignment: d. Major activities e. Association with the Frente Revolucionario Democratico -f. Activities. performed. independent of the hs oe Frente Revolucionario- Democratico 2G Association with: ‘other: anti= Castro ‘groups, We 4756
Democratico. @ . ; oe a. Date when begun | | _b. Coordinators c. Sponsors d. Personnel e. Political Alignment f. Training headquarters 9. Major Activities | | -h. Association with other groups C. Nature and extent of Antonio de Varona’ SS ‘involvement in the Cuban Revolutionary Council | 1. Role in formation of Cuban Revolutionary Council 'a. Date when begun | r ) | Oo b. Coordinators c. Sponsors/Funding — d. Personnel e. Political Alignment - f. Training Headquarters g. Major Activities h. Association with other groups 2. Knowledge of relationship between the Cuban Revolutionary Counci1 and its New Orleans branch ae Contact with Cuban | Revolutionary Delegates — “luis Rabel. Be Sergio Arcacha ‘smith: HE Arne Rodrigue ae Manuel Gil. . “Vs “Frank Bartes: 7 oe Sih HW 54756. Docld:32267344° Page. 62° 0°
@ vi. Nature of his stay at Augustin Guitart's home | b. Knowledge of attempts to establish training . camps in Lake Pontchartrain near New Orleans, Louisiana. | i. Funding | | ii. Personnel | . Federal Bureau of Investigation Bust 3. Role, if any, of Cuban Revolutionary Council in the Bayo-Pawley raid. a. Knowledge regarding announcement of raid ‘into Cuba in June of 1964. | b. Knowledge of resignation of Maceo from the Cuban Revolutionary Council coinciding with the Bayo-Pawley Raid @ | D. Nature and extent of Antonio de Varona’s ‘knowledge. | and association with the following: SEE ATTACHED — “MW 54756 Docld:32267344 Page 63
@ Nature and extent of Antonio de Varona's knowledge and | association with the following: | A. Alpha 66 ; 1. Antonio Carlos Veciana Blanch ‘By Segundo Frente Nacional de Escambray 1. Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo 7 | 2. Max Lesnick C. Movimiento Revolucionario del Pueblo 1, Joaquin Godoy y Solis” | 2. Manuel Ray Rivero 3. Jose Miro Cardona D. Agrupacion Montecristi e | 1. Jorge Nobregas | 2. Francisco Carillo ~E. QURE 1. Sylvia Odio 2, Rogelio Cisneros Diaz 7 3. Duney Perez Alamo F. Cuba Libre a. Carlos Zarraga Martinez 2. Carlos Hernandez Sanchez G. Comandos L Antonio: Cuesta ‘del Valle “Lawrence” Laborde. se Luis: Balbuena  Senage Aare Fernandez Santiago A ‘Alvarez ‘Rodriquez:
H. Cuban Revolutionary Council @ 1. Sergio Arcacha Smith | | 2. Frank Bartes - 3. Antonio Maceo Mackle 4. Manuel Gil 5. Carlos. Quiroga . Td. Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil 1. Carlos Bringuier 2. Juan Manuel Salvat Roque ; 3. Jose Antonio. Lanusa : - 4. Ross. Crozier . J. Movimiento Democrata Cristiano - ‘1. Laureano Batista Falla ' e 2. dose Ignacio Rasco Bermuda — | | 3. Richard Rudolph Davis 4, Victor Paneque | K. Movimiento. Revolucionario Treinta de Noviembre l. Carlos Rodriguez Quesada | L. Junta de Gobierno de Cuba en el Exilio 1. Paulino A. Sierra Martinez 2. Reinaldo Pico | | OM, International Anticommunist: Brigade/ Interpen 1. Gerald Patrick Hemming . L “ee “Howard Kerineth- Davis PA aya Be Frank Sturgis” a. Roy’ Emory Hargraves: WHW 54756. Docldi32267344 Page 65°.
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i “wa756 -  Docld: 39267344 50. Page 68. 1. Meyer Lansiy.” a 49. . Manolo Reboso . Andrew St. George | . Alexander Rorke . Lee Harvey Oswald - Earl T.- Smith Jack Ruby ~ . Wallace Shanley — . Marcos Perez Jimenez © . Kerry Thornley 7 . Eladio del Valle ‘John Martino _ Nathaniel Wey] . Justin McCarthy + Clare Booth Luce . Howard L. Hunt Jim Noel . Richard Lauchli Jose Aleman . James Buchanan . Jerry Buchanan . James Cogswell | William Pawley - Eduardo Perez (s2y0)- we Marita Lorenz ae Luis Posada “Grayson: ‘Lynch
\ 51. Rolando Masferrer - @ | 52. Jorge Soto Martinez _ | 53. Victor Espinosa Hernandez 54. Robert McKeown a 55, Amador Odio 56. Howard Hughes - $7. Joseph Shilmon 58. Agustin Guitart 59. ‘Martin Fox 60. Oscar Echevarria - 61. Enrique Garcia - 62. Evaristo Garcia Vidal - - a | 63. Raul Gonzales Jerey . - @ ; | a 4. Roberto Fernandez Miranda. ' . | . | 65. Frank Ragano. i 66. Dominick Bartone | 67. Henry Saavedra 68. Edward Whitehouse 69. William Morgan 70. Charles Tourine 71. Dino Cellini 42. Santo Trafficante 73. Donald Edward Browder 2-0: | .Sam.Giancana® * 9- “HW.54756 Docld:32267344 ‘Page G90
@ It. ODE VARONA'S ORGANIZED CRIME BACKGROUND In the fall of 1960, the CIA recruited John Roselli, a Las Vegas mobster, to plan and execute an assassination of Fidel Castro. Having only limited contacts with the Cuban exile community, Roselli and his: Chicago mentor, ‘Sam Giancana, contacted Santo Trafficante, in Miami, . Florida to arrange for Cuban activists. ‘Initial plans proved unproductive and Trafficante was then requested to furnish an alternative course of action. . - | | In March or April of 1961, Roselli told the CIA support Chief, James O'Connell, that Santo Trafficante knew of | a man higher up in the Cuban exile movement who might oe - assist them in assassinating Castro. This man was identified as the leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FRD) and, therefore, probably was Antonio de Varona. | De Varona was given the poison pills to pass‘on to assets within Cuba, but this plot was aborted due to the Bay» of Pigs invasion. | | | There is some indication that.de Varona was also involved with organized crime individuals prior to April of 1961. A memorandum from the Director of the FBI to the Attorney General, dated January 23, 1961, reports that ce BI. ‘has: ‘received: information. that. "gambling elements inthe United states: have offered to. cont¥ibute | as high | as’ Se stro. operations “WW 54756 Docld:32267344 Page 70
II. . De Varona OC Background...page 2 of de Varona and the organization which he represents..." This memorandum contains. information that de Varona may > have received financial: backing from Dino Cellini through Edward K. Moss. Dino Cellini is an organized crime figure who had had some business interests in Cuba. His sister, Julia Cellini, was alleged to be Moss's mistress. ‘Two FBI memoranda, dated December 21, 1960 and January 18, 1961, refer to the Cuban who was involved in the passage of the poison pills in March or April of 1961. The memos state that this Cuban was associated with anti-Castro activities financed by U.S. racketeers, including Santo Trafficante, who hoped .to secure illegal monopolies in the event of a Castro overthrow. | After the Bay of Pigs, William Harvey resumed the Castro/Mafia assassination plots. In April of 1962, he passed some poison pills to Roselli, who probably gave them to de Varona. In June, Roselli told Harvey that a six-man team had been dispatched to Cuba. In August of 1962, the Cuban was reported to be preparing to send in another three-man team to penetrate Castro's bodyguard. De Varona_ is probably the Cuban referred to as arranging these teams. Jas? logical that, the: american “syndicate would attempt, to. assist de Varona. and. ‘to. acquire: ‘nis: favor, ‘since de Varo HW 54756 “DocId: 32267344 Page 710°
II. De Varona OC Background. ..page 3 was an important leader of the Cuban exiles who would probably have held a key position in a new Cuban government should the plots succeed. De Varona also had the added’ attraction of CIA support, and: by inference, the Agency's: approval. It was also logical that de Varona would value organized crime support since they could ‘easily supply . financial backing, arms, and other support required to overthrow Castro. “HW'54756 DocId:32267344 Page 72° 9 9
OBJECTIVE GOAL #2 To determine de Varona's role in the CIA/Mafia Castro. assassination plots and to determine de Varona's relationship to and involvement with organized crime figures. LINE OF QUESTIONING A. Nature and extent of de varona's involvement in the _ | CIA/Mafia plots | : | 1. Pre-Bay.of Pigs: August 1960 - May 1961 a. CIA contacts and associations during August 1960 @ b. Initial contacts regarding specific plots. to assassinate Castro (de Varona's trip from Mexico to New York City in September of. 1960 and the New York meeting of Roselli, “Maheu, and O'Connell on September 14; Miami meetings) | -¢. CIA/American gambling contacts regarding “castro assassination plots | 1. Funding | 2. Operations | ommunicatio LNW 54756 - Doc
Objectives...page 2 d. Specific Operations 1. Poison pills - January-February 1961 2. Cuban operatives | 3. Reasons for failure of mission | 4. Association with Juan Orta 2. Bay of Pigs a. specific ‘role in the Bay of Pigs b. Relationship with E.H. Hunt (Edward or Eduardo Hamilton) | 7 Cc. Contact with American gamblers regarding the Bay of Pigs | | @ d. Role during the invasion | 3. Post-Bay of Pigs: . May 1961 to June 1963 . a. Recontact by American gambling individuals 1. Meetings with Roselli, Trafficante, and "Maceo." 2. Relationship with Rafael "Macho" Gener b. Actual Operations l. Assassination squads 2. Approximate. dates and outcome of .assassination attempts. ‘Arrest“and’imprisonment..of ridividual: “mentbérs'thvolved in, the assassination’ plots: NW 54756. Docld:32267344 Page 74:
Objectives...page 3 d. Information as to the return of members of the assassination. teams to the United States e.. Information regarding Castro's knowledge of the assassination plots 4, AM/LASH plots a. Knowledge of Rolando Cubela b. Contact with Cubela: 1960-1965 c. Knowledge of Cubela's relationship with covert operations with the CIA: (Hunt and Artime) d. Information regarding Castro's knowledge of Cubela's CIA affiliation - @ . -@. Information regarding Castro double-agents | (possibly Cubela, Artime) f£. Knowledge of Castro assassination teams in - the United States 5. .CiA-funded activities independent of assassination plots: May 1961 to June 1963 a. CIA contact for activities be Extent to which knowledge of CIA-funded activities and assassination plots were “shared. -by.athe same CIA. officials. cand. Amer ican. gambling interests. (Discussions: with Bl. Hu regarding. assassination plots). HW 54756 “Doclda:32267344 Page. 75
Objectives...page 4 B. Nature and extent of associations with American gambling interests independent of CIA sponsorship l. Pre-Castro Cuba: knowledge of and associations with American syndicate figures; i.e., Santo | trafficante, Norman Rothman, Dino Cellini, Charles Tourine, the Fox brothers, and Lewis J. McWillie 2. United States gambling associates and financial assistance - a. Dino Cellini through Edward kK. Moss @ b. Dominick Bartone | c. Plot regarding Pepin Bosch and organized crime 3. Other American suppliers of arms and material for Cuban raids C.. Nature and extent of de Varona's knowledge of . assassination of President John F. Kennedy 1. Vocal exile groups opposed to JFK Information obtained post-assassination regarding
Objectives...page 5 4; Information obtained post-assassination regarding role of American gamblers or individuals in the assassination ‘5. Specific information regarding the relationship © of Jack Ruby to any American gamblers or Cuban » exile groups D. Nature and extent of de Varona's knowledge and association with specific individuals | (See attached list -- “Goal #1) - HW 54756 - DocId: 32267344 ‘Page 77 - °
@ Bs BIOGRAPHY Maurice Martineau 1389 Canterbury Rockville, Maryland Presently retired from the United States Secret Service. Mr. Martineau entered the United States. Secret Service as . a Special Agent in 1940. In 1954 he was promoted to Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) of the field office in Grand Rapids, “Michigan. In 1955, he transferred to Milwaukee, Wisconsin as Special Agent in Charge (SAIC) and remained in that position until 1961, at which time he was transferred to Kansas, Missouri. In February 1963, he was sent to the Chicago, Illinois - field office .as Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAIC) . From 1969 until he retired in 1972 he was an "Inspector" in the Inspections and Review Divison of the Secret Service. During the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, _Mr. Martineau was in Chicago. At the direction of Thomas Kelly, HW 54756 ‘Secret Service Inspector, he became .involved in a limited post- assassination investigation. Docld: 322767344 Page 76
HW 54756 GENERAL LINE OF INQUIRY WITH REGARD TO PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTION AND SECURITY 1. Whatwere the function and responsibility of Secret Service field offices/white House Detail for Presidential protection and security? 2. Who in the field offices assumed primary responsibility? 3. What systems and goals were developed and maintained in | regard to: a. ‘Identification of individuals who represented a threat; -b. Wentification of groups who represented a threat; c. ‘Determining the modus operandi. of both individuals and groups; d. Acquaintance with .the motivation of both individuals and groups; and | e. Acquaintance, awareness and knowledge of geographic. range of both individuals and groups. 4. Were there differences between the protective purposes and the practicality of! protective operations? a. Manpower to perform necessary procedures? b. Considerations for legal and political rights? c. Lack of cooperation and coordination with other agencies? ad. Access to desired information? BDocld: 322767344 Page 79
General Line of Inquiry...page 2 5. In what manner and with what emphasis did the Field Office/White House Detail concern itself with Presidential protectionand security? a. Coordination with White House Detail Advance Agent? b.. Nature and thoroughness of discussion wth Secret Service senior officers regarding effectiveness of. intelligence information? c. Nature and thoroughness re the use of liaison contacts? | d. Interoffice cooperation and coordination between “White House Detail and field agents? | "Significance" attached to unnullified threats? £. Consideration given high incidents of criminal ‘activities in-various cities; e.g., number of shootings, type of weapons used, etc.? g. Consideration given to prior hostile political demonstrations; White House Detail index on local © | or regional hostile groups? | | h. The extent to which threats from one region were considered in protective efforts in another region? HW 54756 Docld:322767344 Page 30
General Line of Inquiry...page 3 @ 6. What procedures were established for the purpose of. ‘establishing liaison contacts with other investigative and ‘intelligence agencies? | | a. FBI b. CIA c. State Department d. National Security Council -e. Office of Naval Intelligence : Were these procedures adequate? What types of interorganizational problems did you @ experience? HW 54756 DBocld:32267344 Page 61
. KENNEDY C . | _. SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS | Name Maurice Martineau. - Date 2/1/78 Time, - Address 1389 Canterbury ee Place House Annex 2 Rockville, Maryland - Interview: On February. 1, 1978, the writers interviewed : subject Eg in Room 3460 at House Annex #2 in connection with his activi- - bes as ‘acting head of the Chicago office of the Secret Service — in 1963. | | | | Martineau told us that he retired in 1972, after 32 "years with the secret Service and has been travelling on tours © : to Europe and the United States. He recently received a tele | phone call from Robert Goft, Counsel for the Secret Service, which ' alerted him to the Committee’ s need to. interview him.- He told us that at the time he left the Sexvice, he had been assigned to the Inspection Division as an Inspector. In that capacity, almost all of his time was” occupied with the _ Inspection of Field’ Offices and personnel to determine if they were in compliance with Secret Service regulations. He would © Visit field offices around the country ona rotational basis and confer with. the SACs about any internal problems. He would. Interviewer Signature pa a a et A eo typed Signature James Kell y./ Lee Matthews Date. transcribed 2/22/18 a BY? mep_ “Form 4p HW 54756 DociId:322767344 Page 83 : ue .
em Maurice Martineau Interview Page 2 review a representative number of files in each office and determine if cases were being handled properly. He would then _ interview all of the agents "to see if they had any beefs to unload." ‘Visual inspection of the physical plant and equip- | Ment issued would also be undertaken. These visits would — “take 2 - 3 weeks. Martineau would then xveturn to Headquarters “an Washington and write up the report of inspection. Recom- “mendations would be made by the Inspecting Agent. Martineau. agreed that an, Inspector for Secret ‘Service was usually a, senior agent and had or developed a “great knowledge of workings of the Service. He functioned as an. Inspector from 1969 until he retired in 1972. In his tenure, he covered about one half ‘of the 65 field offices. In 1954, Martineau was Special Agent in Charge of the. offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1955, he went to Milwau- kee, Wisconsin as SAC and remained in that position until 1961, ~ at which time he was transferred to Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1963, he was sent to Chicago as Assistant Special Agent in Charge. The head man in the office was James .. Burke who was listed as Acting Special Agent in Charge. Burke was shortly thereafter transferred to Detroit and John Handley — WW 54756 Docld: 32267344 Page 64 ~
Maurice Martineau Interview Page 3 was sent to Chicago as Special Agent in Charge (SAC). After a while, Handley left for Paris, France but Martineau remained as Assistant Special Agent in Charge.” | Martineau made ‘no secret of his dislike for special “Agent John Handley. ‘After Handley left Mike Torino was sent to Chicago as SAC. | | a . 7 Martineau told us that in a city the size and complexity lof Chicago, there is no way you can cover every contingency. C He went into detail. to describe for us the close relationship ©@ which existed between the Secret Service and the Chicago Police — Department on Presidential protection, particularly the close ‘surveillances. He complained that the Secret Service was al- ways short of agents. ‘He told us about a situation earlier in his career when then Vice President Richard Nixon visited a small town in the northern peninsula’ of Michigan. “Martineau and the local police chief were the ‘only "protectors" for Nixon. Martineau said that he was in Chicago when President John F, Kennedy made a visit prior to November 1963. He could not recall the precise date. "We got a telephone threat. The caller was not identified, that Kennedy was going to be killed | when he got to Jackson “Street. We adjusted the routine to rely HW 54756 DBocld:322767344 Page 65
@ Maurice Martineau Interview Page 4 on the Chicago police to cover:the area. The threat did not . materialize, he said. . Martineau said that. if a threat came “to SS field offices, even if it came anonymously , it. was re- ported to Headquarters in Washington. “Protective Research Service (PRS) would be notified. They are now, called protective | * Research Division (PRD). If the threat came by letter it was sent to PRS for fingerprint analysis and phraseology studies. “We asked Martineau about threats - against JFK in. | Chicago: . area November 1963. Martineau visibly stiffened. "I can recall ” no threat that was significant enough to cause me to recollect it at this time" he said. In contrast to the wealth of detail which flooded his earlier recollections, his answers became vague and less responsive. He told us that just prior to a Presidential visit, there would be a “meeting of the office agents and detail assignments would be handed out. In the instance of the President's intended “visit on November 2, 1963, Martineau did not recall any parti-_ cular surveillance involving Cuban or Latin types, nor did he --recall any all-night interrogation of any suspects in the Chi- cago office. Martineau recalled nothing about it the Mosely information until we read a portion of a Secret Service memo (q. v.) written HW 54756 DBocld:32267344 Page 66
: Maurice Martineau Interview Page 5. by SA Ed ‘Pucker (and which Martineau signed as "Approved by") ; which outlined the. Ss 1963 interest in Mosely, whom it appears ‘was. an informant. _ He only recalled that Mosely was a "police buff, a James Bond type who knew where | there was a stock. of. “automatic weapons which some Cubans were trying to buy. “they "were Chicago bus drivers. I remember I gave some kind of an award, you know, a "good citizen’ type certificate in my office to Mosely and he insisted that his son be ‘Present at the ceremony. But I don't know what happened in connection with ‘the _ dnformation and at no time do I recall talking’ to the FBI about ait. The only time I had a problem with the FBI was in connec- tion with a counterfeiting case. A Vito Zaccanini turnea him- self in to the sheriff in Rockford, Tl. , We needed to talk to him but he would only talk to the FBI", Martineau briefly discussed the SS filing system as he recalled it. Chicago office files were prefaced by 2-1+#. While the prefix "co" indicated a Chief's office or Washington file and CO+S meant special. Washington Headquarters would issue _the actual # on. | these. All Presidential threats were COH's. ‘S (Special) could appear on office files which meant that COPY. sent to Washington. While the writers did not ask Mr. Martineau flat out if he knew about the circumstances which former agent Bolden men- HW 54756 DocId: 32267344 Page a7
Maurice Martineau Interview. Page 6 tioned to us in his Chicago interview (q.v.) we did question his obliquely about the matter of Thomas Arthur Vallee and the alleged Cuban/Latin types which Bolden mentioned. The . paucity of documents in this case make it difficult to pin 6 down a witness on details or even, recollection of past events which ‘the Service seems to treat asa “non-event”. '-Martineau should be reinterviewed as any supporting documents come to light which touch on Presidential threats in : Chicago since during/between October 25 - November 2, 1963. He did remember SA Tom Kelly calling from Dallas - 11/23/63 - regarding Oswald's rifle ordered from Klein's in Chicago. ‘He said in those days the Secret Service in Chicago > was not open on weekends so Kelly called him at home. He then called SA Tom Strong and asked him to check Klein's Sporting Goods for information on the rifle. Strong told him that the FBI had “beaten them to Klein's and-got the records. e HW 54756 “We showed Martineau a picture of Thomas Arthur Vallee, who was arrested in Chicago by CPD on information from Secret “Service. He didn't recognize the pictures and had ‘no present ‘recollection of a case like Vallee. Docld: 32267344 Page 66