104-10062-10058 wae. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE . FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. Miami, Florida March 5, 1969 ~ SECRET - WE: CUBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES _. IN THE UNITED STATES * INTERNAL SECURITY ~ CUBA On February 25, 1969, source, a Cuban exile residing in Miami, Florida, furnished the following sizned statement, as translated from the Spanish . Language: Miami, Florida February 25, 1969" I, (name of source), have read a statement of my rights and understand my rights. These rights were read to me by JOSEPH S. DAWSON, who identified himself to me as a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in the presence of SAMUEL W. JONES, who also identified himself to me as a Special Agent of the FBI. I Signed a waiver of rights after I had read my rights, and the Agent had read them to me, make this statement to the Special Agents of FBI voluntarily. They have not threatened me _ made promises to me to make this statement. I_have given information about | I the or | } to Agents of the FBI, which information was not correct. According to my previous statement, first contact with was in November of 196 e@ 1967), while actually 1 was recruited }} in about October of 1965.) - SECRET = Group 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification Ite NBc “Ys 93) We er mee tee ous sr
14-00000 ‘ ~ SECRET ~ CUBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES RE: JN Chul) UNLTED STATES eee ne a wD ange OND os nee me in the future. He took down information conceruing my background, including my address, which was at that time) |Court, Apactwont [|__| Miami, Florida. A My next contsammomeren—ordany AN ort with the L__ Joccurred some five months later, when I wrote ML? } ter directed to| land enclosed Ac’ We F tes int letter,which I had written to my wife, . | Cuba. bbe, wrote this ‘letter to| |with the | A: ttm purpose of paving the way for another trip to bring people out of Cuba. In other words, it eee dl? wos to insure my entrance and departure, without (dit Ciculty from the Cuban Government. In this fl letter, 1 wrote only that I was still at their fe service, and that I would soon return toQuiba by boat. I did not receive an answer to this letter. Y 4 My next contact with the was in August Ne ) i@ Of 1966, when I went to Cuba by boat to bring people out fof Cuba and to one them to. the UnitegSta es.as refugées,. \.On this 4fip, i went é vemrte) oe a RRNTREY name I do not | } Fip, we arrived.in Cuba at midnight, i and and I went to the home of his parents ; Jol. CUTE next morning, | ~ I left with the sister of| | sor | Sagua la Grande, where I obtained a car which took . 4 me to Havana, had instructed me to * contact a family in Havana which was friendly | { | with , but the man to whom I had been 3. - SECRET ~
14-00000 e - ‘SECRET - - CUBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED. STATES reic..:°: had already gone to Sagua la Grandé» Then I vent to the house of Haveaa. I do not know the & So, DUT I contacted several relatives off who wanted to leave*Cuba. In ofder to assure me that _ I would have no problem leaving Cuba, I called the telephone number of| the number they had given me previously, and asked them to contact me on an urgent matter. A little later, ¢hree men dressed in civilian d othing) arrived in a car, and oné of them identified’: imself as He was a white man, ‘Star, 155 pounds, sharp features, with a short beard and large ears. He gave me no specific iastructions, but told me to > stay in conta et with them. roe Mee a ene ate met mee mene ee re Nipcaec ee A GEE ess After this, I had no contact with the| | until about February\ or Warch\of 1967) Th was after I had been detained by United States — Customs Agents in Miami when I was trying to leave for Cuba by boat. On this occasion, February 21,1967; I was arrested and charged -. with Assaulting a Federal Office and I was freed on bond, awaiting trial. fter I was: out on bond and while I was awaiting trial, I was restricted to the,State of Florida. In the meantime, I wrote the second letter to/| land sent it enclosed in a letter addressed to qy~ ' Wife; in Cuba to one of the above-mentioned ‘ addresses. In this letter, I told| h that I was in a difficult situation and could not leave the State of Forida, and that I wished to talk to someone who could help. me. ~ SECRET - spines ii neta tnt tg tO ENE See Nn NY ene ee ne eee eee np ener envenomation pane a o . . Kiieee Pro” ae if —
14-00000 - SECRET - CUBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES ace RE: - IN Uik UNITED STATES - | oO I received an answer to this second letter in about Guly\of (967) while I jwas in jail. The nnsver was a typewritten létter signed and was sent in an envelope placed inside another euveiupe. The outside envelope was sent from c€osta Nica. I did_not receive this letter while. in prison, since| | with whom I was. Giving, opened it and kept it for me ‘until my ~ oo! departure {from prison in September, of 1967) - - Afier I left prison in September of 1967} ood e eral telephone calls at _the home of ; from an indi “2 no aucertified himself as " “2. j a When I first talkeq wWitr m, he tol f me that he was (L__ [eovara "erin later identified himself aa a ara i made Several trips to New Yormjunuder assumed names. In New York, I PG met with and we discussed the Cuban : i exile situation. Complete information about these _ trips and meetings with |have been furnished “$ince the first contact with I have : made several reports by tdephone and Others personally an to about the activities of several anti-CASTRO _gxoups iami, and I have received about {wo thousand) ‘dollars from for these services, including - (ioney for the ‘tickets; to New York.) a 7 Concerning these reports, ‘showed a rn great deal of interest in information relating to : ‘“eGlandestine trips to Cuba by members of the anti- mo CASTRO groups in Miami, as well as any plan of co v4 attack against the person of FIDEL CASTRO, All , oF 5. ~- SECRET =
14-00000 et gree ee a apie nee Safran “tenet EATS MOTE MEETS PA I rs Sam RE oe es es ae mene ee a emnnemnenennns stem oe é : - ven eee LO AO A RT YO OR RO De LEE NAPA AED ESTED FANN SRNR attend eptitnegeNEEEE AD Ost “GREE eee ay ante ONE oe . wu : . - SECRET - RE: CUBAN INTELLIGENCE, ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES the information that I have given to has been ‘deceiving or false, and I have been careful to insure that the false information could not be checked on. To demonstrate that I wag a reliable person, I gave certain information about events that had already happened which could be verified or which was public information. For example, after one clandestine trip to Cuba carried out by Cuban exiles, I gave information about this. ae trip, but only after they had returned to the 7 United States. I. never have given information fo which could have jeopardized any person, to the- _ best of my knowledge. In ecember of (968), I furnished — a completely fake story about a plan by Cuban exiles in Miami to assassinate FIDEL CASTRO. f ~— told him that they were going to make this attack yhile CASTRO was—speaking echanic) working fvr"SiFaPeney-of the United 4 States Government in Miami. After giving him this ceport,(—Joatiea "me several times each week during December: of 2968, to find out if I had learned more about this attempt against the life of FIDEL CASTRO, In QGanuary, of 1969) I reported to[ } that the. 6. : / = SECRET -
14-00000 “2 ae eae Sent ea REND © CE COTE cA ERRONEOUS Ghee Ree Se BIO | REEL kept ep an : me . veneer nee ss arenes wetness Fe ARR REREREE SebaDe A SA SRT ETAT Gren anandannenne SANA Ne ESN = 87 AIREY: EE ORE I ERO RO et NE Sn HELE SN ree HH RE: - SECRET - Oe CUBAN UTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IN tig UNITED STATES group had returned, and had failed in their mission. To the best of my knowledge, none of . these pexpons exist, with the exception of sag te _making these reports, I used certain fs] words} which had been given to me by and they are as follows: These code_words have been used by me in telegrams sent to. addresses in Cuba designated .- bf which I have previously furnished to thé The telegrams which I sent were a * gigned withthe code fame and other ‘| ‘hanes, . These telegrams were only sent to Cuba. Near the end of 1967) told me td ‘make a trip to Cuba with a Select group, which included | . and he told me that I would ‘receive documents. in Cuba which would indicate that qT. - SECRET -
14-00000 ee ananassae etnias 99 at te: etc pe te re 9 Ce Ste mom ory wemer seses yeei ene yan van co emmaumgemm sees hw Atm ane Hue sane ctt tage Rie fom Fe fe tan em oes NEmS Smpaei em - « .~ SECRET ~- CuBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IN ja Ua TED STATES Since nevér Fétirned to Cuba, § plan the inielligence field. was never carried out. Although he never gave me the name of the Cuban, I was under the impression that it would be someone unknown in At this time, I also remember that | b eave me instructions to talk to , a Miami | lwho is a fii to “with I should try to learn if| hhad ‘received any information from | | He me that in conversation relsting to the poli¢ies of President. RICHARD; JN concerning the Cuban situation. -also instructed me to talk with eee gt POUt the Cuban problem. My last contact with | lwas at | ‘Havana, Cuba. addressed | while I was in the house of | _ in Miami. had told me he was going to call me } at Miami number I waited for the call, and Since he did not call me, sent a telegram to between and | i Cuba. In the telecram. I wrote, if —_ I_sent this a telegram on| This telegram is €hééodé_that I have with| | andthe code, | means that should call me at Jon the night_indicated in the telegram. During the call from | | on| | he asked me how ‘8, ~ SECRET -
14-00000 uf i. ~ SECRET ~ RE; CUBAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES - - JN THE UNITED STATES things were going, and also told me he would be > gone | and that another person would contact me_on the ch,_196%, at | [at Miami telephone number This person is to identify _himself with {he_codé, ‘or I have read this declaration of eleven pages and it is correct. , (Signed by the source and witnessed by two Special Agents of the FBI.) On February 25, 1969, the source made available “tcontaining printed words in the ; Source advised this printed materia . constitutes which was utilized by him for his He said were furnished to him by [sometime during Novémber of TIGES At the tine they were given to him, they ss - in Tel contained _the following information, as translated from the i . ~- SECRET - pee Sane eee _. . . ; .
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14-00000 | ~ SECRET ~ co AN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIE _RE: N THE UNITED STATES | Sig (ta ther an . Obtain photographs of yourself with CIA Pp, we "that you. know, . ne te Source advised thah following his first personel: contact with his telefram contact.-! _in Cuba was ees fromy Apartment — Cuba. Regarding. the information concerning { source advised he, the source, is friendly with 3 and is in a position to contact| regularly, voce “Inasmuch as nas requested the source to assist him: : in bringing a relative of [from Cuba to the United. ' States. nt Do Source sata nad previously operated a ne store in downtown Miami, but now plans to open a new.) °- stére in_a Miami shopping center. located at reet and Avenue, in which shopping center as a ” financial iaterest. PROPERTY OF FBI =~ This document contains nei the recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the °" property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency;. it and * contnts are not to be distriblited outside ‘your agency. 17.* « SECRET =
14-00000 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE » | «FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: * : i Miami, Florida. _ In Reply, Please Refer to March 3, 1969. | File No. : Character. Reference information in the past. This document contains neither recommendations nor cénclusions of the FBI, it fe ‘the property. of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: it and its contents are mot to be dletributed. outside... - your agency. Ee