” og OO %@ all [toe-too-t0042| a « SECRET SUBJECT: ARTES; (CLARENS), Francieco Antonio AT Rey se (See dise HEMMING, Gerald P.) 5 RELEASE IN papy tw hee . T OTAL Dea, ca/gp en ALLEGATION: CIA CONNECTION: | C1 Lk fo date there had been no Subject, an alien, former “* information which invelves Frank President of Cuban Railways, was BARTES, Cuban exile, in GARRISON ‘a approved for contact use in January investigation, However, es a Rew 1961 and May 1967. The FBI inter- Orleans citizen who vas prominent posed no objections to these contacts. in Cuba, opposed to CASTRO, head af He was to furnish information econ- the Cuban Revolutionary Council in serning Cuban rafivays. Ee was New Orleans, and known to Gerald granted a Provisions] Operational HEMMING and LABORDE, he may be in- Approval on 4 Januzry 1961 for volved later. contact and assessment for use on Project JMATE. This approval was cancelled -31 August 1961. On SOURCE: 7 October 1965 Subject was ted » g another POA: for use as a Memorandum dated 20 November | He was covertly investigated : 1967 from CI/R&A and Enclosure 14 with favorable results end received - uf ‘ of Memorandum No. 5 dated 7 August an| i 11 February 1966 and his clearance was cancelled 28 October 1966. OS INDICES RESULTS; Subject is 47 years old (born 14 September 1920 in Havana, Cuba). He was formerly President of Consolidated Railways of Cuba and also owned sugar and rice plentations. He left Cuba because of i his opposition to CASTRO and entered the U. 8. on 4 January 1961. An FBI report dated 14 June.1963 fram New Orleans, Louisiana concerned a vieit by BARTES to the New Orleans FBI office in which he offered pests services to the U. 8. Government end said he would be willing to i { { | | | cooperate with the U. S. Government in any acceptable plan the U. 5. i ‘might devise to combat CASTRO‘s government with no thought of personal . gain or favor. | On 20 Deceniber 1966 BARTES called the New Orleans DCS office to inform that office that his mother had errived from Cuba and would be willing to provide information. He also stated that a cousin, a 29 year old Cuban ballerina, Alicia Cruz BUSTILIO, not a Commnist and still residing in Cuba, a4 these offers were acceptable by the Agency. . Got nee FOE, f1943 SECRET lex) (Sp declassifization QETUAN TAG, Ra ckgmgued Lae Owe De Vint Rep re we
4, om e8 ia oe) * OSEGKEL DETAILS: In June 1962 Frank BARTES reported to cur Hew Orleans DCS office that Lewrence Joseph LABORDE, Gerald P. HEMMING, Jr., and Howard Kenneth DAVIS ealled on him and e414 they wanted to train Cuban refugees as guerrilla fighters and demolition experts for use in Cube. BARTES reached en agreement with LABORDE who, he said, was anti-CIA. = Subject was head of the New Orleans Cuban Revolutionary Council. A "States-Item" article for 21 July 1962 reported that Gerald P. HEMMING, ska Jerry PATRICK, “showed up in Hew Orleans apparently at the invitation of local Cuban Revolutionary Council leaders and other Cubans who wanted to take direct action egainst CASTRO." The article related how “PATRICK" made reguier trips in and out of New Orleans and was supplied with machine guns, explosives and other military supplies. HEMMING, aka PATRICK, agreed to set up a training base at Leake Ponchartrain but the Miemi CRC headquarters nixed this base for undisclosed reasons in July 1962, according to the "STATES-ITEM" account. , SECRET