SECRE1 : Department of the Army advised that in an interview with Florencio Pernas Lorenzo (105-98002) on 2/14/61, Pernas advised that from January to March, 1959, all. he did was attend social and official gatherings in Cuba. During this period he made a trip to Miami, Fla. with Comandante Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo. In about July,1959, he was requested by Gutierrez to participate in an action against Trujillo and Batista followers who were to attack Cuba. From 12/20-23/59, Pernas made a trip to Tampa, Fla., accompahied by Gutierrez to collect toys for needy children of the Escambray. (KE Yu u) Ws +2 16 pow peclmes pen A Did. Y-ih-9€ — sujKse ie a Pernas entered the U.S. with itisrress and planned to'go ay Miami and wait for orders of Gutierrez as ‘to his future actions. C26) Add. info. according to Fernando Prio Hernandez, 1330 Southwest 12th Aves, Miami, Francisco Prio Socarras, 2200 Southwest 2nd Ave., Miami, Antonio Prio Socarras, 1001 Southwest 22nd St., Coral Gables, Fla., and duplicate informant. 105759002- -11 p.4-6,8-10 Cbyy eet -2 p.2,3 1 703 98002-9 p.3,4,6-8 | AW A dd. info. \ oo *Entered U.S. January, 1961 CIA advised that a meeting composed of anti-Franco elements and communists took place on 2/4/61, at the camp of the Spanish Liberation Army (Ejercito de Liberacion de Espana-ELE) on the Isle of Pines near Havana. Abderraman Muley More and his aide, Manuel Perez, leaders of DRIL (Iberian Revolutionary Directorate of Liberation): who had taken charge of ELE since the departure in late January, 1961, of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, were threatened with expulsion from Cuba for resisting communist efforts to take over ELE. WZ) OU) ; | 109 587,47 (13¥47 |, who was interviewed in Room 615, | Roger Williams Hote oS Has -, NYC (not further identified) | (Protect identit y), and who had furnished reliable information in the past, advised on 1/27/61, that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, who Was involved in the "double cross" of the Dominican Republic's attempt to overthrow | Fidel Castro in August, 1959, had a price of $ 00 on his head, put. there by Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. GAXw) 105 6a769 -39 Encl.p.7 a SECRED ! -13- HW 50953 DBocld:32336679 Page 7
en | _ a SECRET ~* On 2/23/61, Cirita Lopez Cejas, residence, Miami, Fla., and a- messenger for Manuel Ray and the underground, advised that Manuel Ray had helped Gutierrez Menoyo and the group who came with him, to escape from Cuba on 1/27/61. Lopez stated that she assisted in the arrange- ments for the defection and had hidden 5 or 6 of the revolutionaries in her home in Havana. She advised that Ray recognized that Gutierrez pulled a:considerable amount of support and following as a former leader of the Escambray. He was considered a good campaigner and knew the Sierra Escambray Mountains extremely well. | a = _ [113-7-210-252 Encl.p.7,8) 9% [3 PRY _ The 2/1/61, issue of the "Miami Herald" carried an article entitled "Economic Crises Won't Topple Castro-Frio" in which Carlos Prio Socarras (109-430) stated his views on Cuba and Castro. Prio also expressed concern that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, the rebel commandante who fiad sought asylum in Miami, was still being detained by U.S. authorities: . Guiterrez was an anti-communst, according to Prio. | 109 (30-2390 Encl.p.3 23y — SI 105-430-2395 p.10 (23 : } CIA Information Report, dated 2/10/61, revealed that a source who belonged to a group which assisted defectors to escape from Cuba, had been. trying to get Humberto Sori Marin (105-93839) out of Cuba. The source visited Miami to determine whether the means of escape from Cuba had been compromised by Gutierrez Menoyo and his companions. He , also wanted to determine if Sori would be interned as was Gutierrez, and iow Gutierrez had learned about this escape route and how he was able to highjack the boats. SS WW) 05 -973839- (29 CIA furnished on 3/6/61, a memorandum captioned "DRIL Plans For Action In the Iberian Peninsula" , which stated that the Iberian Revolutionary Directorate of Liberation (DRIL) planned to infiltrate a group from Portugal into the Sierra Morena mountain range. According to the secretary of DRIL leader Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, DRIL had a clandestine printin n Madrid. Field Comment: According to a 2/14/61 report from | Gutierrez's secretaryg¢ in Havana, said that“DRIL leader Abderraman Muley More had commented that his plan had been to charter a boat to be used for clandestine landing in Spain or Portugal. ) JFK Act 6 (1) (Cc) 109 587-48 4.3 roe aay P 74 SoCRET HW 50953 DBocld:32336679 Page 6 { { |
7 SECRET On 6/30/61, Ralph Huguet, former officer in the Cuban Rebel Air Force, advised that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and Max Edgardo Lesnick Menendez (105-64869) resided with him at the Blue Bay Motel, Normandy Isle, Miami Beach, Fla. Gutierrez desired to come to the Miami Office for an interview. Huguet advised that to his knowledge, neither Lesnick nor Gutierrez were involved in any.acitvity_or in any way connected with the current Cuban government. C# UM) 10564969-11 SI ¥05464869-12 p.1-3 (4726Y Add. info. MM 639-S advised that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, a recently defected military commander of the Cuban Revolutionary Army, and closely associated with the Frente Revolucionario Democratico, a leading anti-Castro organization, planned to attend, as an observer, military demonstrations with maneuvers that were to be held at an abandoned airport at Davie, Fla., on 7/1/61. These on (21683). ht BAY) held by the Revolutionary Junta of National Liberation (2-1683). 2-1683+3 Encl.p.2 VA \ (14 34 MM 639-S advised on 7/2/61, that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, did not attend the demonstration held on 7/2/61, at Davie Airport, Dayie, Fla., by the Revolutionary Junta of National Liberation (2-1683). (% ie . 2- Yee 3 7 Encl.p.2 (1434 SI 24169331 p.11 (2,85y (Add. info according to Gerald Patrick Hemming, 1936 Southwest 3rd St., Miami, Fla.) SI 2-1499-78 p.11 (1434 -17-SECRET: HW 50953 Docld:32336679 Page 9
C s SECRET Miami report, dated 10/4/61, revealed that MM-639-S advised that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo's father and brother were both known communists in Cuba and Eloy himself fought ‘on the side of the communists in Spain in the 1930's. Eloy. was further accused of..being responsible for over 200 innocent people being put in jail in Cuba:and. having participated - in the William Alexander-Morgan affair ‘at’ Trinidad, Cuba, in-August, 1959.— He was not well considered by Cuban nationals in Miami, reputation and was not. generally trusted. OY YX ; Add. info.. J a, | 2-1693439 p.1,3-7,11 (ayaey , had a bad -_ “Roger Redondo Gonzalez, 730 W. ilth Ave., Miami, Fla., advised on 11/13/61, that a captain Antonico (LNU), who furnished the transportation for a group of Cuban exiles to infiltrate Cuba in August, 1961, was in charge of contacting the Cu ban underground forEloy Gutierrez Menoyo. ¢¥ ) Rafael Huguet Del Valle, Blue Bay Motel, 2070 Bay Drive, wiand’) Beach, Fla., advised on 11/13/61, that Antonico (LNU) was a fishing boat captain from Cayo Guillermo, Cuba, who was a member of the revolutionary movement of Gutierrez and who had contact with the underground section of this movement in Cuba. (% (ue Add. info. according to Huguet and duplicate informan advised that on 12/22/ 5 fy 2-1693450 p.1-4,6 (avsy 61, Herbert Matthews ("NY Times" > ( NY 2965-S* correspontént) confacted Mario Garcia Inchaustegui (105-99238), Cuban Ambassador to the UN. Garcia asked Matthews if there was any news of the Matthews replied that there was nothing new, only "the ravings of that “jerk' Gutierrez (probably Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo) and Miro Cardona" (anti-Castro Cuban‘revolutionary leaders). a) "invasion of. my country". aoa ST a \ \ s 105499238-26 pil ’ pateomng -19-SECRET HW 50953 DBocld:32336679 Page 10
SECRET Gerardo Gabriel Antonio Hernandez Perez (105- 113456), residence, Miamd, Fla., advised on 873/62, that he and many other Cubans had a poor. opinion of Jose Miro Cardona, ‘President of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, Manuel Ray Rivero, former member of the council, and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, because they wére. once with thé Castro régime and probably would have stayed if there had been sufficient opportunity for them to advance politically and financially. Ray was considered the most anti-American of any of the exiled leaders. // | \ 105 A1gis6-1 Encl.p.7 (oVA2 | On 9/12/62, Rene Dechard, 1174 S.W. 12th St., Miami, Fla, advised that Max Garcia (97-4345) had. made phone calls to his home at various times in the past in attempts to locate Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, t TAB G95 B.1,2 | CIA Information Report, dated 9/18/62, revealed that General ~Generoso Campos Marquetti, President of the Alliance For the Liberty of Cuba (105-114160), stated that the Alliance sought. a unification of all elements, except those of the Castroite bloc whose "hands are stained 4 with blood"... Campos was adamant y refusing to accept anyone of the ilk (u of Gutierrez” Menoyo (FNU). ‘(&) Headquarters Comment: his probably refers to Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Commandant of the former anti-Batista Second National Front of the Escambray, who took exile in the U.S. in January, (1961. . 1051 A60-2 p.3,4 | ei , “MM 639-8: advised that on 9/28/62, Loy Gutierrez: Menoyo, Tony Cuesta and about 4 others attended a ‘meeting in Miami, Fla., which ; was considered a: meeting of Operation Alpha 66 (105- 112098}. Cuesta had lived at 2753 N.W. i3th St., Miami, and had been in contact with Gutierrez and a Samber™ of American soldiers of fortune and mercenaries. Gutierrez was last known to reside at 1126°S.W. 12th Ave., Miami, and , it was not known if he was a member of Operation Alpha 66. KW) 10s £098- “40 Encl.p. 5 (9¥ YA2 _ -23- SECRET HW 50953 DBocld:32336679 Page 11
Ay . : ; . R ° ; - Ne . Fo a me , ‘ z “ ; SECRET | | REFERENCES NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SUMMARY ates ‘The following references on One Gallego, ‘located in files ; maintained in the Special Filé Room of the Files and Communications | Division, Records Branch, were not reviewed: (3 ) REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 64-330- 237 1545 64-330-239 - 825 6) . ' The following réference\on’ 0 ‘One Galteyo was not available during the - time this summary was being prepared: <3) REFERENCE eee SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 64=1200-1063 See the search slip filed behind file for other references on this subject which contain the same information (SI) that is set out in the main file. Differences in source and additional nonpertinent information will be noted on the search slip. , ; fl . . ; ? HW 50953 DBocld:32336679 Page 12