fodA0a08 A084 “DISPATC H | sere rT — MARAEO FOR HNUE XING HO INNING REQUIRED Special Affairs Staff i] | “ONLY QUALIFIED ae Se . a : HEADQUARTERS DESK : . 4 ae CAN JUDGE INDEXING (ee Lon, So [Chief of Station, ‘ JMWAVE ? wk micworie . | eB8CT Opera tional/TYPIC/AMLEO vanity phy caf Operational Progress Report AULEO-3 f [<> [ACTION REQUIRED. REFERENCES . ea a? ACTION REQUIRED: None: FYI \_. REFERENCES: A, UFGA-10496, G6 August LOG: eal ¢ ‘ B, WAYE-4034, 8 September 190 ee Zhe S C. UFGR-2379, 6 August 1963 D.- UFGA-7858, 25 February 1963 OPERATICNAL DEVELOPMENTS i. .This report will cover the period SU July 1965 throu:h 15 ‘September 1963 and is-a follow-up report to reference A. _ EFFORTS TO LEGALLY EXPILTRATE AMLEQ-3 FAMILY FIO’ CUBA | REE EG AE SERENE CRANES tee + OS elite em Lo SNE RES SE eee ae AOD eR RE GED consent 2. Since transmission of reference A to Headquarters scvcral developments occurred which effectively eliminated several alternate ‘solutions to the problem of the AMNLEO-2 family in Cuba. The  .. alternate solutions that were eliminated, as found in paragraph .- 3. 0f reference A, were (a) "Maintain Status Quo as a Family attempting Leave Cuba via Offices of. Swiss Embassy as Part of the American Repatriation Program"; .(b): "Save, AMLEO-3 Family. Withdraw Papers: Fron.the -Swiss” Embassy _ “atti. American: Repatriation Program and “Attempt Leave Cuba’.as) ‘Normal Refugees. via Mexico - ~* Or. Spain”; and (e) “Haye the AMLEGS Family Case Taken up Rith the  GOC” Through the ‘Donovan’ Channel for Possible Legal Exfiltration". Attachment: USC Elimination of the above alternates left only two solutions that were at all feasible; (c) “Have the AMLEKO-3 Family Take Asylum in either the Uruguayan or Mexban Embassics in Havana", or (d) "Have the AHMLEO-3 Family Exfiltrated black in a Maritime Operation by either a KUBARK. or Independent Maritime Team." : Because of the inherent risk involved in a black exfiltration, _ it. was decided that the AMLEOQ-5 family shoulda be put into asylum in either the Uruguayan or iicxican embassics with all possible speed, (CONTINUED) Distribution: seHMeadquarters w/att USC DATE TYPED DATE DISPATCHED 19 Sept 6: DISPATCH SYMBOL AND no Sti identities . UFGA~ 11375. HEADQUARTERS FILE NUMBER : «CLASSIFICATION E CRE 4 19-6-75/% T
CLASSIFICATION SECRET DISPATCH SYMDOL ANO NUMBER (UFGA-13.375 _ ; CONTINUATION OF * DISPATCH 3. Toe this end steps wore initiated in on 24 July 1963 to put the AMLEO-3 family and AMLEO-2 into asylum in the Nexican | Embassy in Havana. The AMLEQ-3 family and AMLEO-2 were advised via the (AMWEE+]A5OWVL channel on 4 August 1963 to preparo themselves for asylum and to await further orders via the same . channel, KUBARK, Station in Mexico City, meanwhile, tool: urgent: - - action through channels to have the Mexican Foreign Minist he AMLEO#-3 family and AMLEO-2; and then send word to the Mexican Embassy in Havana, Cuba that the AMLZO-3 family and AMLEO-2 should be granted asylum when they appeared at the Mexican Consulate under cover of obtaining their visas. The visa portion of the operation was satisfactorily completed and notification of same was sent into _the Hexican Embassy in Uavana; but word re asylum for the AMLEO-3 family and ANLEO-2 was not sent to the Mexican embassy due to insecure comno channels and lack of trusted couriers, and . to.date no secure. method has yet been found to notify the Mexican Embassy in Havana that asylum should be granted to the AMLEOs, 4, AS a‘result of the above, word was sent to CAMWEE~1 | via OWVL on. 11 September requésting he detemine whether or not Identity A’ would be willing to act as intermediary to receive _the AMLEQ-3 family and AMLEO-2 into Asylum at a specific tine -.. and date at the Nexican consulate, JAMWRE-1) asked for _ Clarification on the manner of approaching ‘Identity A on the case. on 13. September via pouch, and more detailed guidance on the matter. was sent to him via CWVL on 14 September. -A final reply re@ possibilities. for action via. this channel its expected from (AMWER~1\ momentarily. If ‘the (AMWEB-1) reply is favorgble, then he will be told to arrange the meeting at the Mexican consulate between the AMLEOs and Identity A so that they can be taken into asylum by the Mexicans. . SS. As noted in reference B, if the’ ‘AMEE-T .rcport is a negative one, then consideration will be given to having the _  AMLEOs take asylun in the Uruguayan Embassy in Havana, The test case utilizing AMCANCE-3, mentioned in paragraph 5 3 of reference B, is to be attempted on or about 21 August 1965, and Af this attempt at asylua is successful then arrangenucnts will -. be made to have the AMLEGs enter the Uruguayan Imbassy in the [. -6.. Ags noted in paragraph 1 of reference B, the wife o ee Taeey a? OE oP mS +a te FORM 53-66 ue 14 September 1963 AMLEO~3 received a letter from his wife ‘hoping to see AMTHUG-1. Finally, on 7 September 1960, she saw ¢ j Same manner, f AMLEO-3 finally made a direct contact with ANTHUG~1. on 7 September 1963, while he was at his Santa Maria beach hous and appealed to: him for permission to leave Cuba with hor children and rejoin her husband AMLEO-3 in the United States, giving more details on the above mecting. The wife of AMLIO-3 had been visiting the beach home of a family friend, situated next.to that of AMTIIUG-1 on Santa Maria beach, gn n daily basis J HME YG; Ife 4 him swimming alone in the ocean and prowptly went into the water, introduced herself , and requested prmission to talk to him. . AMTHUG~1 granted this permission, and during their conversation AMTHUG—1 made it clear he would not grant Mrs. AMLEC=-3 permission to depart Cuba at this tine, stating that the tinue was not propitious due to the attacks and raids being carried out against Cuba, and that irs. AMLEO-3 would just have to wait. Mrs. AMLEQ-3 then told him she did not sce why he was holding her and her children responsible for what her husband did; that she fe “feared her husband might forget her and their children cenpletely . 4f the separation continued, and that if AMLFO-2 was left much i longer alone he would find a woman to replace her, ANTIHUG-1 replied by asking her "Do you consider yourself a burden to your husband?" The wife replied "It is possible", and ANTHOGG-1 then O beeebh Le. Ye ‘ asked "But he calls you every day." ae ——= rence ns ce meee reste eo cent ees cman ee oe i CLASSIFICATION | comma oe : = PAGENO. 53a UME PREVIOUS EDITION.
13-00000 oa. Vga we Som i an : “es l CLASSIFIGALION  SPATCH SYMHOL AND MUMULIT CONTINUATION OF SECRET UPGA=}=11375 DISPATCH 7. \Later during the conversation AMTHUG-1 asked Mre. AMLEO-3 if her husband still had the presentation Soviet ' pistol that he.had given him in 1961, and Mrs. ANLEO-~3 informed him that her husband had taken it with him when he defected and asked ANTHUG-1 if he wanted it returned to hin. _ AMTHUG-1 did not reply to the question, Later on, while .discussing her conversation with AMTHUG-] with Identity B, ' Identity B suggested to Mrs, AMLEO-3 that she request AMLEOQ-3 to send the pistol back to AMTHUG-1 via Ambassador LECUUGA at the United Nations, NYC. Identity B added that the return of the pistol might help matters since the loss of the pistol had been one of the things that bothered AMNTHUG-1 most when AMLEQ=-3 defected, (i.e. AMLEO-3-has noted that these special presentation Soviet pistols were given by AMTHUG-1 to probably - less than ten people in Cuba, and their presentation had a very special meaning for ANTHUG-] since the recipients were supposed to be his very personal and close fricnds. AMLEO-3 clains that not even. ANLOUT-1 had received one of these special _ presentation pistols from ANTHUG-1,.) Consideration is being . given to AMTHUG-1's request, if it would assist Mrs. AMLEO=-3 ‘in her efforts to leave Cuba, but for the time being the pistol will be held by KUBARK. 8. ANTHUG-1 also told Mrs. AHLEO-3 that her husband had Bteien a light plane when he fled and implied (although she does not so state directly) that he would like to see it returned, The balance of Mrs. AMLEO-3's letter concerned her . desire to: leave Cuba, mentioned the necessity for almness by both she and*her husband with no rash actions, and without: giving. any additional facts stated that-her conversation with ANTHUG-1 had been a long one but that she could not get him to make any promises re hor departure, DEVELOPMENT OF OPSRATIONAL LEADS TO DISAFFECTED CUBANS : 9. During the operational period one of AMLEOQ-3's ‘operational leads, whom he had written a report on -for the AMTRUNK PM operation.:, was recruited via the recently successful ANTRUNK infiltration operation and given the crypt of ANTRUNE-~-10. AMLEO=3 also screened additional ANTRUNK leads and RKUTUBE military leads during the period and was able to submit reports on some four individuals for these operations. All such |; leads were fed to him mixed in with many other Cuban names, .AMLEO-3 is presently preparing reports on PHS target studies | Major Felipe GUERRA Matos and Major Jorge SEGUERA, Cuban | Ambassador to Algeria. ; ! 10. AHLEO~3 also assisted in the handling of AMLEG-5's / wife during the period when she established direct telephonic | communication with her husband in Cuba, and tried to convince him that she wanted to return to Cuba with her children, | “ but stipulated to A-5 that he would have to mect her in a third | country first and resolve their personal family problems. | | AMLEO=-3. baby sat for the wife during these calls, since we | only knew what day the calls would be coming in and never the hour. He also nssisted Mrs. AMLEO~5 in recording the last toleph: conversation she had with her husband. In this same operation AMLEG-3 also nssisted the Case Officer in the conversations held with the mother of AMLEQ-5 while she was in the United States, although he was never allowed to cstablish direct contact with the mother, We had hoped that the mother of AMLEO-5 would attempt to estabiish contact onher own with AMLEO-3, but to WAVE Station knowledge she never attempted to do s0. If she had, we would have allowed AMLEQ-3 to respond to her contact efforts (maintaining his cover as being disassociated with GCDYOKE). 11. During the period fragmentary information has been received from the wife of AMLEC-3 (utilizing nicknames or other PAGE NO. i CLASSIFICATION FON . +s | | zo. 69a USE PREVIOUS EDITION. SECRiT WI CONTINUED are
13-00000 _. CONTINUATION OF ‘her with blackmarket food, loaning her her automobile, and other-~ wise assisting her with hor problems. Identity B may be for the future, Thé possibility also exists that she is remaining _ PRIMELLES ignored the presence of Mrs. A~3 and did not speak ' them, continuing her conversation with Mrs. AMLUQ-3.. Mr. andi ATTETUDE 5 MORALE ,. _AND PERFORMANCE oF AMLEO-3: -been cooperative with his C/O and has maintained a good attitude and operations and extensive argumentation was neoded to higher authority, COS JMWAVE, Andrew K. REUTEMAN visited AMLIO-3 - on 8 September 1963 for’ the purpose of convincing him that any . of our actions to help his wife and children leave Cuba legally. _ After some frank exchanges of facts AMLEO-3 was finally convinced: . that the only productive course of action left to him was to continue to sweat out the asylum proposition and hope for the 5-60 53a Use PREVIOUS EDITION, SER T | | - | 4. " DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER UFGA=-11375 CLASSIFICATION DISPATCH SECRET code phrases for individuals) indicating that Identity B has continued to be very helpful to hor by supplying carrying out such actions on a genuine friendship basis, (she hag. even been denounced by the neighborhood defense committee "ag. ‘nesie ting @usanos") or sae may be buying insurance a confidant of Mrs. AMLEQ-3 on orders of AMTHUG~1 and is reporting on all developments to ANTHUG-1. In early September 1963 Raul PRIMELLES (201-327902) arrived at Identity B's home for a visit while Mra. AMLEO-3 was present, Mn and irs. to herewhile greeting Identity B. Decause of this Identity B promptly turned her. back on her visitors and did not anawer Mrs. PRIMELLES were thrown into some confusion by this reception and departed from the area. 12. Mrs. AMLEO-% has also mentioned that UNSNAFU-12 was most kind to her during her recent home leave in Cuba, ‘and made it quite clear she was anxious to get in touch with AMLEO-3, During the latter part of August Mrs. A+3 again mentioned to her husband that UNSNAFU=12 had written Identity ‘B from Faris stating she wags surprised at not having heard from AMLEO-3, 13, ~ During the. réporting period: AMLEO=3 has consistently towards his work. During the latter part of Apust 1963 AMLEOQ-3 began to lose his patience with the slow progress in getting his wife into asylum, and began requesting permission to return to Cuba himself in order to exfiltrate his wife black. ANLEO~3 became quite demanding in this regard and claimed that KUSARK's time had run out, and since he had waited paticntly for aine months he now felt it was his turn to try his luck. AMLEC-3 is extremely confident of his own ability in action situations persuade him that such a course of action would be suicidal for his wife and children and that his wisest course of action would be to give us additional time to bring the asylum operation to a successful covclusion, Because of AMLEQ-3's faith in unilateral action on his part would only be counterproductive and playing right into AMTHUG-1‘'s hands. KUBARK‘'s limited commitments to AMLEO-3 vere also reviewed along with the history best.. Absolutely no further commitments were made to AMLEO-3 during these discussions and alternate courses of action if the asylum attempts fail were not discussed but instead left in abeyance, OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AND PLANNING 14, As previously mentioned in paragraph 13 of refcrence A, AMLEO -3 went to “ZRYETAL during the period 26-350 July 1963 for the purpose of obtaining a French visa for his alias documentation, AMLEQ-3 successfully obtained the French visa duricg this trip, and his alias passpurt now contains valid visas for travel to Spain and France, a ELASSIFIGATION | PAGE NOL
13-00000 | | s.6o 6 §3a UGE PREVIOUS EDITION. Le v c ) a) Sy bata CONTINUATIO F CLASSIFICATION | DISPAICH SYMODOL AND NUMBER NO SECRET ~ | uFGA-11375 * DISPATCH . 13. WAVE Station regrets that reference C has not been answered to date. In reply we can only state that AMLEOQ-3 . was thoroughly briefed on the limitations of his alias docuxentation when said documentation was issued to him. Ne was told that the credit card documents could never be used for identification or credit purposea. He. had.alao been warned to avoid situations where he would be asked for positive identification, such as ‘renting a car, and by attempting to procure a rental car in ZRMETAL he was acting contrary to instructions given to him by his WA O. On (O-3's return to WAVE he was caStigated for his actions, and again briefed on the limitations of hfs alias documentation. In order to strengthen his alias documentation —_ _4n.I.D,. card document identifying him as an employeeceof - an LesStied to nin, as sugecetcs wy {UHCETEY D, VAINULD Ta conversations with AMLEO-35 in ZRMETAL. In regard to points a and b in paragraph 2 of reference of the KURIOT -re resentate in WAVE Station states that the? . drivers license issue: oseph A. liecse Isa valid, backsToppe drivers licensé for actual use by the Subject and the address a legitimate safehouse with backstopped rental cover. Subject's cover story was that he recently moved to the Miami area from New Orleans, Louisiana (which city the Subject lived m for s2veral years and has relatives residing there). The Subjct's .documentation is therefore correct for his cover story. The spelling of “instalment” on the National Credit Card was correctly ‘copied from the original document reproduced by KURIOT and we must point out that “instainent" igs not only correct according | to the 4a dictionariés but is the spelling’-of- ‘the word. which is: now frequent] ¥~ ‘preferred, ~ -(Thée Wall..Stfeet- Journal. invariably prints -the word ‘as“"instaluent" with one TIT)” Tt fould be appreciated 7 Headquarters would in the future coordinate with KURIOT in Headquarters on qucstions which deal with AQUATIC matters prior to querying WAVE. costs 16. AMLBO-3 continues to receive a flat salary of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per month, and also is paid approximately one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month for purchase of foodstuffs since he is encouraged to cat his meals in the KUDARK  gafehouse and stay out of public places. We have also continued to pay the wife of AHLBO-S the amount of one hundred and twenty five dollars ($125.00) per month for subsistance for herself and her two children to supplement the $126.00 per month she receives ..£rom. the Cuban Refugee Center. The C/O has continued his efforts to find part-time employment for Mrs. AMLEO-5 s0 that KUBARK could be relieved of the necessity to support her, but to date we bave been unsuccessful in our efforts primarily because Mrs, AMLEO-5 has never worked in her life and has no work skills whatsoever. No other financial expenditures of note were made during the period, and no financial assistance is presently - contemplated for any other AMLECs. ' INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION 17. During the reporting period no positive intelligence reports were disseminated by the AMLEO group since none of the active agents are locatec in the target area, nor do they circulate in Cuban exile circles. 18. We are continuing to utilize AMLEO-3 as a consultant on the NMHAPRCN program, and to this end are planning to have him expand his reporting of personality information on selected individuals and to utilize him to explain interconnections between various individuals and groups as they take shape in MHAPRON research, CLASSIFICATION PAGE NO.
13-Q0000 FOR 5-6 CLASSIFICATION j. DISPAICH SYMUOL AND NUMBER + CONTINUATION OF | cp ” " ViypaTC | SECRET UFGA~11375 -. FUTURE PLANS 9 M -19. Future plans for operational exploitation of ANLEO-3 continue to remain the same ag outlined in detail in reference .D, The operational use of AMLEO-3 in defection/recruitment operations will not be permitted until his wife and children are. ° successfully put into asylum in'one of the Latin American Embassics | in Havana. ; 20. WAVE Station will continue to work on AMLEG-3 developmental cases concentrating on MHAPRON leads, and attempt to build two~ way communications channels into such leads, AMLEO-6 is still considered to be the best qualified lead by AMLEO-% to act as. principal agent and recruiter of other disaffected military personnel in Cuba. Details on these developmental operations will be reported via separate dispatch, | END OF DISPATCH foal eee “CLASSIFICATION "| PAGE NO. ! i) 53a USE PREVIOUS FOITION. ; a