Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 199? (44 USc 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 6/2/2015 Identification Form ae Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90135-10345 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: _ 105-82298-NR $$ Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HQ TO: PA TITLE: DATE: 04/04/1961 PAGES: 2 SUBJECTS : ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Withhold DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/25/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH vO.Le Doctd:32336950 Page 1 eee 39
M@Teased under the John F. Kénnedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107Hote). ! _DATE: Ai1- 14-2017 oo a . Lo : « aed oO ft AL SECRET | ” ma at TON CONTAINED . ur from Belgian newspaper "La Derniere eure" - “(athe Last» Hour) of February 125 1961. With photocopies as proof, a Cuban publication | declares: Te TRUE STORY. ABOUT. THE °SANTA-HARTA" STARTS Ar LIne "Ths Was Oni _a Prelimina Step ina Vast Plan to. Conquer An ola . ‘Havana, February 11. - The affair of the "Santas Waria" was only a preliminary step in the realization of a. vast plan which comprised the eonquest of Angola and the organi- [ | zing of insurrections. on the Iberian Peninsula, the Cuban pub- lication "Bohemia" declares. Furthermore, this periodicai | _relates the circumstances under which this plan was conceived | as well as the reasons for its. failure. Lo . Hereinafter, that which according to. "Bohemia" was (2) the "true affair" of ‘the "Santa-Maria." . ae (S) “" The Affair. Starts. In Liege in 1960 . i to tt started in 1960 when Interpol, in search of the members of a terrorist anti-Franco network, had ELOY (sic) . GUETIEREL (sic) MENOYO, "hero of the Cuban Arny ," arrested. . while in prison, MENOYO made the acquaintance of some members of “drill” (directeire iberique de liberation, or, Therian Directorate of Liberation) and promised them the assis- tance of, commandos, trained in. cuba, for the "Liberation® of the Iberian Peninsula. Piret Step: Take Possession of. "San’ varia” A scheme was then conceived whose first step con- ! sisted of taking possession of the Portuguese steamer "Santa- Maria.” ‘The latter, once in the hands of "drill," was to.dis- embark: its passengers: in Cuba and embark the agily it. iA OLIVIA L. McHAHON: cr? ye _- Declassify on: April Ay 1961 ge 7 . om ne CRED SNoLosuRE | - Docld: 32336950 Page 2?
(Released under: the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (42 USC ZIUA Hote). P oarE: 11-14-2017 _ a . a i . ‘ 7 is} am \ Gg AU pase —o ; K \\ _ ANN So ean os — . SECRET an ‘Thereupon, the steamer was to head for Angola and moe ar <eonquer this territory. Paraliel with this, instructions were ' to be given to guerrillas in Spain to organize 2 general up- rising there, — iy re . . A Double Agent Sas In the meantime, MENOY6 revealed himself to be ao double agent. On the way back to Cuba, he contacted; in Madrid, _OPTO SKORZENY, the man who had liberated MUSSOLINI. No. precise details, however, are furnished about this encounter, a - .. Once in Cubay NEROYA would wait for the first part of the plan, the seizure of the "Santa-Maria," to be realized. | before fleeing to the United States with nineteen of his com- | (5) panions on board three ship's boats. We presume that he was — eager to inform the American authorities as to the position of the steamer which he knew and which permitted American authorities toe find it again. Treason . _ ..._— Leaders.of "drill" in Havana hastened to cable to Cap~  {. tain "GALVAO,” informing him of MENOYO's treason. Simultaneously,| _ orders were issued to the Spanish guerrillas to abandon their insurrection plans. | : mo -. “Behemtea," which published photocopies of these telegrams, adds that HENOYO and his companions are now interned by American immigration authorities in the State of Texas where an investigation of this mysterious affair is being conducted. | na Baa PP » me a : , - : , . , Docld: 32336950 Page 3