124-90006-10135 JFK Assassination System Date: §/29/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90006-10135 - RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 100-420590-50 . Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: MM TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 03/12/1964 PAGES: 12 SUBJECTS : PAULINO SIERRA MARTINEZ DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 06/08/1999 | OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : v9.1 HY 50953 Bocld: 32322923 10 Page i eee eee Se eee PAA er Pe PTC rc sg enenennnenencn
te ; MM 100-14102 — SECRET | | MIAMI: : id AT MIAMI, FLORIDA 5 Oo | : : of} Will, at the end of sixty days, unless advised | : A sooner by INS, Miami, check with INS Investigator OTIS WOOD, : a ' INS, Miami, for status of the investigation being .conducted 4 by INS, looking toward revocation of subject's U. S. citi- i zenship. ; ADMINISTRATIVE Miami is placing instant case in a pending inactive status for sixty days, since no leads remain outstanding. No request for permission to examine subject using iygraph ks being submitted at this time because: 1 - Subject is in poor health and is waiting to | enter the hospital for treatment;. and, _.. _ 2 ~- INS has a case pending in which’ INS will at- _ tempt to prove that subject served in the Cuban Rebel Army during the period 1959-60, and did so voluntarily, thereby subjecting himself to loss of his United States citizen- ship. Q This report is classified Confidential, since it a contains information originating with CIA, which information — was so classified (CIA report UFG 3907) QC (u) On March 2, 1964, IA covert, Miami, advised that a check of CIA files fails to reveal that CIA has an operational interest in RODRIGUEZ, and that no information is available concerning him subsequent ee to CIA report UFG 3907. AIK) . neon oe Original interview of subject in connection with his association with the Junta of the Government of Cuba in - COVER PAGE - SESE E VOY HY 50953 Doctd: 32322922 Page 2
HY CONFIDE i i i44 MM 100-14102 investigations, advised that a former employee of a Cuban Ministry, who is now in the United States, and who is described by MM T-1 as r ed in- a formation which originated with (c) a Cuban exile. (FOL . The PO son concerned activities about a group which was represented by PAULINO A, SIERRA. SIERRA was a Cuban exile opposed to the present government . of FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, Cuban Premier. According to the source, the SIERRA group was gathering forces for opera- tions against FIDEL CASTRO. SIERRA, in a meeting in Coral Gables, Florida, in September, 1963, said that American businessmen had offered money to help defray expenses of the group, but that no operations would be conducted from American soil ($<.)¢ u) Among those at the meeting and associated with the group, was FELIPE RIVERO, who had been connected with the attempted invasion of Cuba in April, 1961, which operation was known as the "Bay of Pigs Invasion.” At the meeting, CABANAS reportedly stated that SIERRA had named GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ, Also known as Captain LEON, to be the - commander of the military forces of the SIERRA-associated group. RODRIGUEZ was described as a naturalized U. S. citizen, and as having been arrested by the CASTRO govern- ment and sentenced to a long term. He was freed in 1963 through the intervention of American lawyer. JAMES B. DONOTAN SIR) On October 31, 1963, GILBERTO RODRIGUEZ FERNANDEZ, 620 N. W. 69th Stgeet, Miami, Florida, furnished the’ following information to SA ROBERT JAMES DWYER:. a §0953 Dactd: 32322922 Page 3 C ! |