14-00000 OLLI 2 with ex-Senator Rolando MASFERRER and Eduardo HERNANDEZ, former Cuban Consul General in Miami in the Anti-Communist League, which has made two attempts to fly arms to Pinar .del Rio, Cuba. In each case men connected with the actual flying of arms were arrested by U.S. officials. Some time ago Piedra incurred the wrath of Trujillo and he is not at all happy about the location of Pedraza's ef- forts. Ne considers Pedraza a prisoner of Trujillo. (4) Late in September 1959 Jose SUAREZ Nunez, a Cuban exile arrived in Miami to deliver instructions from Batista to Piedra to attempt to immediately consolidate the anti-Castro forces into a viable movement to overthrow the Castro government. — Batista reminded Piedra that there should be no involvement with the Dominican Government and advised him that to the greatest extent possible groups should be cultivated which are now or might be expecyed to be looked upon with favor by the U.S. Government. Enrique FERNANDEZ Parajon, former Chief of the Secret Police under Batista was reported in January 1960 as endeavoring to merge a group under the leadership of Orlando PIEDRA with the ADC. He added that the PIEDRA group has three planes which they would like to use during the next 60 days to set fire to sugar cane fields by dropping incendiaries. However, FERNANDEZ bemoaned the fact that tight United States controls in Florida were hampering their activities. Fernandez said that he is in contact with Guatemalans and Nicaraguans and that he and Piedra are responsible for military operations. It was his opinion that Pedraza has only 80 men in the Dominican Republic. (4) H. Brigadier General Martin. DIAZ Tamayo General DIAZ Tamayo is a controversial figure, disliked by many Cubans because he represents top military leadership which in general wag unpopular among civilians and lower military echelons, ) yet respected by his peers. _,He is held in contempt by Chomat, former legal counsel of crac, (3) but General Pedraza has indygated that he would be willing to work with DIAZ Tamayo. DIAZ has a moderate following of Cuban ex-military men in Miami, where he now lives. He has discussed with Nunez Portuondo and Marquez Sterling the. possibility of forming a coalition in support of them. ) SECRET
14-00000 SECRET ” COs I. Rolando MASFERRER Rojas Rolando MASFERRER Rojas, former Senator during the ' Batista regime has played an active but not significant role among the exiles in the United States or in Mexico. - His spectacular activities, unreliability and obvious op- portunism have discredited him with the leadership and rank and file of exiles as well as anti-Castro elements in Cuba. He is anathema to Nunez Portuondo, General Pedraza and Santiago Rey, in particular. 1 , MASFERRER was accused by the Castro regime of having committed 70 pyyders and of having absconded with 17 nil- lion dollars. He is remembered unfavorably by many Cubans as having been a member of the Communist Party from 19539- 1944; later he did an about-face and became an ardent and "professional" anti-Communist. He also is unpopular becduse of the activities indulged in by his own terroris "army," known as the "Tigers" during the Batista regime. ) “He has been described as a Jacobin, a demagogue, a tyrant and an extremist. For several years Senator MASFERRER enjoyed reviling the United States, its people and its policies. When anti-Communism became popular about 1950-51 and MASFERRER realized that this was a means of increasing ,}is prestige with Americans he became a friend of the US. J. Penetration of the Anti-Castro Movement Castro has bragged that his capture in Cuba last August of an arms-laden plane containing a group of anti-Castro QQ) militants was due to his having planted a spy in their midst. Earlier the Chief Investigator of Cuban Army Intelligence (Departamento de Investigaciones del Rjeroito Revolucionario - DIER) had admitted to the FBI that the Castro regime had sent a man to Miami with the express pysPose of reporting on the activities of anti-Castro exiles. \4) During the summer one of the more active anti-Castro exiles in the Miami area was enticed back to Cuba where he was immediately thrown in jail by agents of Castro's Police, Intelligence (Departmento Teoniso de Investigaciones - DTI). 3) The Cuban Revolutionary Air Force also is atygged to have had between 40 and 50 paid informants in Miami. There have been numerous indications that Castro probably has been able to plant agents among the followers of most of_the more prominent anti-Castro exiles in this country. SECRET
14-00000 3. SECRET PEDRAZA Memorandum for Record: 1, WHD, and William Pauley, 9 Dec. 1959. Secret DBF 36434, Nov. 4, 1959, Confidential UMWA-24, Sept. 24, 1959. Secret also WHD Memorandum & Memorandum for Record. Conversation of Mr.{__ WHD with Pauley and Freyre, Nov. 30, 1959. Secret DBF 39015, December 8, 1959. Confidential Memorandum for Record. Conversation between J- , WHD, and Wm. Pauley, 9 December 1959. Secret COS Navana Tel. 3041 Dec. 16, 1959, IN-19840. Secret TDCS 3/423,188, 31 December 1959 FBI, Miami, November 6, 1959, File 201-259120 Emilio NUNEZ Portuondo 201-45667 DBF-33000, 31 Aug 59 DBF-36517, 10 Nov 59, C Ibid \BUEN?5110, 30 Oct 59, S HEPA-9838, 10 Nov 59, 5S DBF-39015, 8 Dec 59 DBF-39016, 15 Dec 59 Memo for Record. Desk file - 19-9-8 UMWA-65, 31 Dec $9 SECRET
14-00000 Carlos MARQUEZ Sterling DBF 34945, Oct. 8, 1959. Conf. DBF 35722, Oct. 29, 1959. Conf. Memorandum for Record, Dec. 9, 1959 - Conv. | | and Wm. Pauley. Secret Memorandum of Conversation between two representatives of CIA and CARCIO, 16 Oct. 1959. Secret CS 3/411,429. 9 Sept. 59. Secret Pedro DIAZ-LANZ DBF 33664, Sept. 30, 1959. Conf. UMWA-53, 9 Dec. 1959. Secret UMWA-11, 10 Aug 1959. Secret DBF-28290, July 8, 1959. Confidential UMWA-65, 31 Dec. 1959. Secret PIEDRA DBF 34752, 30 Sept. 1959. Conf. Memorandum for Record by US Air Attache, Havana, 26 Oct. 1959. Secret CS 3/415,258, 15 Oct. 1959. Secret “NAVA- 3141, 5 January 1960. Secret See also OO-B 3,138,850 re testimony by former attorney for Batista who states Trujillo bled Batista white and treated him like a dog. ADC Memo, 1 Dec. 59 Memo - [| Pauley, Freyre Conv. 29 Nov. 59 SECRET -2-
14-00000 SECRET ADC (Cont.) 4. DBF-35528, 21 Oct. 59 DBF-38863, 16 Dec. 59 DBF-35528, 21 Oct. 59 DBF-35528, 21 Oct. 59 DBF-37600, 30 Nov. 59 “DBF-35528, 21 Oct. 59 MASFERRER - US Army Attache, Mexico, R-248-59, Aug. 7, 1959, Secret DBF-24112-in 201/42669 DBF-04112, 22 July 1959.. Conf. HEGA-589 from COS | , 26 Aug. 1959. Secret DIAZ TAMAYO [_} memo for record. 1 Dec. 59 DBF-35722, 12 Oct. 59 | UMWA-65, 31 Dec. 59 | Memorandum of conversation,[____} Pauley, 9 Dec. 59 2011-22162 Penetration Havana, Radio Progreso, 15 Aug. 59, FBIS, Unclas. FBI Report, unnumbered, 21 Apr. 59, Desk File 19-5-1 SECRET -3-
14-00000 Penetration (Cont.) "3. NKHA-5666, 27 Nov. 59, S DBF-32667, 17 Sep. 59 4. DBF-23997, 18 May 59 5. Castro penetration file (ours) SECRET -4-