Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 Usc 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/10/201 Identification Form Agency Information ( AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER:  124-90130-10086 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 109-584-358 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI . FROM: MM TO: HQ TITLE: , DATE: = 09/22/1959- PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ TAMAYO DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret “RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/21/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : LHM | Docld:32336019 Page 1 ‘Wo
Ssassination Records Collecti éDATE® 11-14-2017 In Reply, Please Refer to SI mae oFCRET File No. 105-1742 ‘Miami, Florida | SEP 2 2 1959 RE: ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES CLASSIFIED BY S068 sw ket. ioc “aig 25x (en On September 9, 1959, MM 1-1, a confidential source abroad, furnished the following information: | Cf braecinlaomer On September 1, 1959, CARL § X STEWART, a naturalized Canadian who works as a‘ship's captain’ ard makes his residence at Nassau, ~ British West Indies, telephonically requestec the representative of the British government in Nassau to come immediately to Miami on a most urgent matter. MM T-1 said that STEWART was born February 23, 1932, in Budapest, Hungary, and is now in possession of Canadian ‘passport number 4622270? issued at Ottawa, Canada, on September 14, 1956. In about November, 1958, STEWART made the acquaintance of a pro-FIDEL “CASTRO group in Nassau and furnished information to the British "government in Nassau concerning this group. F mreonsts On September 1, 1959, pursuant to the telephone call from STEWART, a representative of the British government arrived in Miami where STEWART told him that he had been in . touch with two anti-CASTRO Cuban exiles. He named these pen individuals as HIVONGONZALEZ, who’ claimed to‘be a former wT member of the military intelligence service of the BATISTA regime and Dr. (FNU) GONZALEZ, father of HIVO GONZALEZ, whos claimed to have served in the Cuban Treasury Department during the BATISTA regime. / STEWART reported that through these individuals he had learned that General PEDRAZA (undoubtedly; General JOSEP EPRAZA) head of the anti-CASTRO, A (2 OLY (ree —_ — ENCLOSURE | Oe . . . - f Docld: 32336019 Page 2?
Released under the John F. Kenned i ion : . y Assassination R 1 Tioy Agee) Dares dita. 20t7 ; { ecords Collection Act of 1992? (44 USC e). an ee 1959. RODRIGUEZ asked STEWART to fokm and lead a small Pe group of about 200 men, to obtain arms for them-and to \ - British West Indies group, for the purpose of training — & ooo”, ‘ / ~ ° . , . . NO BO . , ad ~ — ; J SECRET movement in the Dominican Republic and who is a Cuban exile, had called a meeting on August 29, 1959, at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to coordinate the activities of all anti-CASTRO forces in Florida. MM T-1 said that PEDRAZA was apparently supposed ‘to have attended this meeting in person, along with various leaders of the anti-CASTRO movement. MM T-1 said that STEWART was not present at this alleged meeting. (2 MM T-1 said that STEWART told the British representative that on August.31, 1959, he met a Cuban \ . who was first known to,him as "PACO," later identified BE to him as_Dr. FRANCTSCO\RODRIGUE COUCEIRO, who claimed (WU 4—~ to have been in the CASTRS governmégt up until June, take them to an unspecified island, probably in the them for military action against the CASTRO government — at some designated time within the near future. RODRIGUEZ | \ told STEWART that he wanted to obtain the tacit approval “a of the British government that they would not interfere with this training. STEWART agreed to get in touch with a‘gépresentative of the British government on behalf of © \ zé RODRIGUEZ. (9) | | | | | | When the British official representative from Nassau arrived in Miami on September 1, 1959, he was met by STEWART at Miami International Airport and driven to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he met with several Cubans at a street address unknown to the British representative. (6) . Present at this meeting were STEWART, Dr. GONZALEZ, FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, two unidentified men believed to be | Cubans and the British representative. RODRIGUEZ disclosed that he had been about to depart for New York City to LoPPY SF gy ad oye | ~ SECRET [09 SY - BLE Docld: 32336019 Page 3
ere: under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U DATE? 11-14-7017 . ; — N ~~ for official recognition on behalf of the anti-CASTRO movement at the United Nations but had postponed his trip in order to son this meeting with the British repre- sentative. . At this meeting the discussion included the following: (S) (1) Talked about the anti- A5Commnist and anti- -CASTRO aims of the movement. (2 (2) Alleged support of certain unidentified U. S. Senators and the fact that the U. S, Government had given no official recognition to the movement. although the movement was hopeful of eventually obtaining such recognition. group of Cubans for an invasion of Cuba against the CASTRO government ($). (4) The British representative was questioned as to whether Her Majesty's Government would be willing to turn a "blind eye" to such a group operation based upon some uninhabited. and isolated island of the Bahama group. Grand — Cayman Island was mentioned as a point for flight refueling. - MM T-1 said that it is his personal opinion that the Cubans had in mind an island such as Turks Island or Caicos Island. (s) 5) (3) . - Disclosure concerning an intention to train a | | 7 { | | | Also during this meeting, RODRIGUEZ disclosed that | - the anti-CASTRO movement would have the support of the | TRUJILLO government of the Dominican Republic and the United . . i Fruit Company, a U. S. corporation. © 7 MM ‘Tel said that ‘the. British government will not, under any circumstances, give any consideration whatsoever to allowing such an operation to be based on any British island. (§) - SECRET JOG ~V~ BSE ae : oe _ a Docld: 32336019 Page 4