(ro4-10193-10016] “DISPATCH [acess CLASEF CAT chief, Special Affairs Staff SMT OTYPIC/Operational . 7 DebxiefLing Report = Santiago SANCHEZ de 2m 8g Bae TE waee eee e2 @ @ = wie mw oe ew 2 & ACTION REQUIRED: None eee ae REFERENCES: (A) WAVE 2733, dated 15 August 1963 0° oT (B) MEXI 5507, dated 26 July 1963 .. oo OO . Transmitted herewith, FYI, is a debriefing report, boas on Santiago SANCHEZ do la Torre, Subject arrived i via Mexico’ in late 4ugusr, 1963, The dehriefluy containg information re the MRR roll up in Nay, 19623. Attachment "A contains a list of subject's friends that are currently employed in power plants in Cuba, Attachment "BY" ig a debriefing report on Angel BENCOMO who Sanchez: believes was responsible for the MRR roll up. END OF DISPANCH ATTACHMENTS : H ‘ ; . Debricfing Reports, 1 cy ea. herewith — ‘ ae oe Wistribution: ; 3-C/SAS, w/atts/h/w 4 Oct. 63 ac UFGA-11653. MEADQUAR-ERS FILE RUMARE ¢@ 19-132-5-96/3 __
a Er ‘. Fea po bus "y i _ ; ; ‘ ‘ eae PA te : . , ; Soe | 3 September 1963 7h DEBRIEFING REPORT : ‘Santiago BSANCHEZ do la Torre « aka “Jose Antonio” DATE & PLACE : Sa fchouse #182, 29-30 August (0800 | - 1300 hrs) : . é CASE OFFICER -3 Claronce £. SNERYAGE “Subject began. tu work against the CASTRO regime with the MRP in At that time he wags employed in the Santa Clara power plant as a His job was controlling the amount.of electric current that was distributed. (Attachment "A" contains a list of Subject's friends - currently employed in power plants in Cuba). On 17 April 1961 Subject made contact with 9 KJBA! _tafiltratiog, team and began to assist the team. Team consisted off = [Jana *AMARGO/1.. Case MARGO/1 has confirmed the Tact that Subject worked Officer Comment: with his team In Cuba. Subject permitted the team to install their RS-1 set in his house located at -#219 Carretera de Camajuani in the City of Santa Clara.. He also safohoused the team on occasion and permitted them After the failure of Playa Giron the to hold mectings at his house. _ team reorganized the MRR in Las Villas Province, selecting Subject to ° bo the Civil Coordinator of the movement tn that. province. | wae selected ag tho Military Coordinator. On 21 Ju > while oH nd Subject yere.ig Havana for discussions with MRR leaders /1 and | Mm he KUBARK infiltration team and many other % members of e MRR in Las las, including Subject's wife, were arrested. . (Discussighs were about actions to take place 26 July 1961). 2 O4 from Santa Clara, age 50/55 yrs, called fot to return to Santa Clara as many Ls. 1960. technician. ‘Havana and to pedplé had been arrested CY ‘passed_the nformation to. Subject but as subject thought it applifed only tothe returned to Santa Clara late at night on 22 July. He.went to'his home and on 23 July proceeded to work at the power plant.” _pantercepted him on his way home for lunch and te d him that the G-2"was at his home and that they also were going to the power plant to arrest him. Subject also learned that there was surveillance on his home on the night of 22 July 1961, but the person watching the house had gotten drunk and did not. see subject when he returned from llavana. From that moment until entering ah Embassy on 6 September 1962, subject lived “black”. Subject proceeded to the outskirts of Santa Clara where a friend, Efrain WAREN, resided.. His friend told him to go to Havana. While driving to Havana Subject met another person who informed him that the G-2 haa a roadblock on the highway at Colon, Matanzas, and that ali cars were being searched. On 24 July 1961, Subject went to @ beach called "GANUZA" located on the north coast of Las Villas near Corralillo. Subject’s sister has a home at "Ganuza" so he left his car there and proceeded to Havana with some friends of his sister... Later the G-2 confiscated his auto. (It is interesting to note that the G-2, after confiscating subject's auto at the beach, belicved that Subject had departed from Cuba. Subject thereafter communicated with his wife by sending her letters in Jatt via Miami where. they were postmarked). NO FIELD DISTRINTION. = s | -  Balithcstemprppeveanemeds DISTRIE uTIO vee, oe ho ; TER 'D DISTRIP- ~ BS P| Wea Chit WEA -ILES score "foot ise
g4-00000 ane tnninanannannn SEES RESO ’ ase - . \ e e = : rien aria sa eas > eas t { Page 2 - ’ went to the se of an MRR leader, FNU 4. On 25 July 1961 Subject YWhnouse he noticed.a of____}4n Havana, When Subject approached } “%pTind hove as if someone was watching” so he did not go in. He walked he could observe the house two blocks to a bus stop. From the bus stop and he noticed that a car depgrted.at a “high rate of speed’. er that day Subject made contact with. lat the hous inO Fontanar, HavanadY—_—_T}eti ives7in Havana) told Subject of the NRR plans. for the | llowing day (26 July). aid that the mo wag “going ahoad with their plans" even thoug they. were aware g{orl . krrest .n Sub ect resided r approximately one week at the . home Of] ithe Veradero.% ontinues to work fpr the ‘Goc at this timo. He 1# the oputy Chief of “XSphalt. Consolidated: for OY the entire country. (fn. Apr 1962 Subject's wife escaped from the™ Pinar dol R She also was safehoused at ; omens’ Prison at Guanajay, ; house).. Subje 3a "good man" who : Also has a home located_at —— » n Santa Catalina OF _ (outskirts of Havana). ife and sons reside with him. OK Subject spent approximat ). y ong in the above house (Aug.-Sept. Subject resided nscn (Ester Menva]]a person he had known for 10 years. While living with[CRUZ phe" change his nppearance - OY d hig hair, obtained contact lenses. lost much weight, dyed and curle (C/O Comment odfEster CRUZ)was arrested approximately 9 May 1962 during ‘tho “roll up" 6f the MRR. She is in jail at this time). In November ~ . wag at that 5. From October 1961 from Camaguey " ; R and used the name ngeliteo™. who was -the Coordinator of Las Villas 5 is from Yaguajay, Las Villas. en Yaka “Anibel” whom he had known begin working fer the MRE oe Or sncou Ee" from a.mcdical laboratory was obtained for Subject..Uy _ da briofcase and began selling medical supplies. 's) owned the laboratory ‘ROMBERG LABORATO! was captured twO actual work ar ANBRONC/S. After AMBRONC? 5 met,.—__ nd requested that he continue to work. id not know the men and denied that he worked for the novement). ~ @, In late November, 1961. Subject moved into 2). uest house" where ¥ _“several other MRR members resided. House is called(Plicuse of Maria de la? “Z*GALLEGA"| and is located on v3" Street_between 2ist Hhd 23rd.Streets, jO . “Subject met "Fernando", the Security Chief of the MRR at the guest house. Fernando continues to work in, the underground. He also met . } hoe also continues to work a He met (l—————._—— —_— oe the underground ¥ “te ilis of s Villas but aan returned to Havana. “Another MRR man residing there a =) i SF ¢uro@#MUGARRA and @AMSALON/1 visited the house on occasion. an ° FN a once picked“up at the house by ANSALON/1. During this. period FNU i jake, Lucas s arrested and Subject bean to work with| BOGARRAL 1 al ender 1961[ took asylum. There was much conflict in the during this perio “between ANHOOK/1 and AMBRONC/S.. (Subject has many ; letters pertaining to this conflict but they were left in Mexico. ANBIDDY/2 “ds having someone pick up the letters. Case Officer will attempt to nd@ review them. Subject claims he did not hand obtain these letters a tc earry them to thé U.S., as he thought our officials would seize them). M7 be wr boa Y “yee
74-00000 Ve lett Nee ow owed # ‘| \ Page 3 -- - oo ee i = ot 7.. In January 1962 [Arturo MUGARRA and were preparing to depart from Cuba. Whett AMJAVA/4 and AMBROS Grrived in Havana they t (C/O Comment: A woman ened ie ahsae oy A via the Bra changed their mindg,, . living with[NUGARRALG) This girl later cage to the USA v lian ) ARRA|'s}group consisted o ¢ @ bad, likes money, women, etc"., ands jock. fcalled Subject here in Miami on 28 August and wants to talk with - - BX Aka “Roly'; as-he had asked too many questions re what AMBRONC/S had brought to Cuba. AMBRONC/5 decided. to call a "false meeting’ of the chiefs of the movement to test BUSTANENTE but “someone objected to this". In February 1962, a meeting*of theo leaders of the MRR took: place and AMBRONC/5 reorganized the movement «ot ubject met RONC/S5 only twice = - once in February 1962 at the house Or ‘and-another time in ' March, 1962 when the assassination of uan**MARINELLO failed. The _ ‘Operation failed as the automobile to be used. in the assassination attempt was stolen on tne dren of the proposed Operation. The driver of the car was to. be Orlando *CRUZ, brother of Ester CRUZ. The MRR suspected ae Orlando CRUZ after. this incident as he is a person who “likes money” and - the theft was"quite a coincidence". (Orlando CRUZ is presently in Miami. - ‘He called Subject on 28 August and wants to see him). AMBRONC/5 informed the group in March to suspend allo erations until he returned from & ’ trip he was taking, to,the USA wi fitucansayyna _ AMBRONC/S placed in charge of the“Fadio sets. |____ jwise OY selected to be t in direct contact with the ‘in”place ¥ Pp res * of Juan BUSTAMENTE, Aka "Roly" 04 MUCARRA se Saciaw pt two radio sets; one_was placed in _the. apartment of . sister-in-law [pf subject located OF et_was logated at, #A t{23rd “and T Sts., Vedado, Apt. #11}. The other OA strc et_between Jrd_and_5th_S8ts..,_Vedaao,] the howe of, Fiuchkifh ncorncs AMBRONC/S that he had. doubts about guan¥ +BUSTAMENTE , ; yo, & CO e only persons who knew the location of the sets were the Radop, Y Vthe MRR Chief an arene moar ing AMBRONC/5's trip to“the US “April, 1962, Juan BUSTAMENTE, al "Roly" discovered where the radios were hidden. Subject had contact with and during April. 9. ‘On 2-May 1962. AMBRONC/S and[MUGARRAT returned from the USA. fEntilque f*CEPERO. and (HUGARRA) 2 Comnoisjaw-wite waited for them in the ue Studebaker® Lark. AMBRONC/S and] MUGARRA/ were late in arriving, however, and the group had departed from the area. oY . ; : ' 10. Subject later discovered that the G-2,had captured a “large radio" in the apartment of a radio technician named{*TROVADIUS. . TROVADIUS, when capturéd, fired at the G-2 and was himself wounded in the shoulder. Later TROVADIUS reported that he had seen duan FALCON in prison and that FALCON , had said “people in the G-2 had told me that no one would be wounded or killed". O\ Il. The Radop *(AMBUNP/2)’ informed subject on Wednesday (9 May 1962) Rumors were already circulating to take the radio set ut of’ the house. that the Radop andl__—~___Juore captured. Owners of the house where the o radio was cached ha VEN" to Santa Clara for Mothers* Day. As Subject was in contact with( Hurting this time he did not attempt to pick-up the radio until Thursaay 10 May) at 0700 hrs. Subject entered the apartment building (12 stories high). by the rear. Upon arrival he discovered that the glass doors on the terrace were opened (apartment was located on the eleventh floor). These windows are seldom opened. SiG
. . : Syl ter being. ‘captured. hi ng ‘f : surveillance for approxit tiatel 3 Cuba. visited her; di ; 1 tems she" ‘buried doked ‘Like. “pads” aad maps” ‘wrapped i ¢ Although she claimed. the: material wags: ‘turned “ove to the.. RE ‘subject, has. ‘doubts that: this” was done. moe
14-00000 Page 3 = UA. During September 1962 Subject and his wife entered the Uruguayan Embassy to remain. in asylum until 19 June 1963 when they arrived in Mexico City via Safe Conduct. . ; 18. Attachment “BY is a report ‘on 1 Angel. .BENCOMO who subject believes was responsible for the MRR "roll-up". . é : Tarence -7 SNER i t i - 1 i
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