v9.1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : _ OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : Docld: 32299425 Page 1 JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10225-10205 HQ 105-114543-233 Document Information FBI OCONNOR, JAMES J. DIRECTOR, FBI 03/05/1965 32 JURE, MR, REPUTATION, CUBAN EXILES, ACA, TACTICS, FINANCES, CONTACT, US GOVERNMENT PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 05/06/1998 INDEFINITE 25 5/21/201
~~ BR Eee s) ; “ fo _ ) \_ LO MM 105-6661 MIAMI A? st wien, Florida L. will determine fuller identity of RAUL GONZALEZ, 3651 S We 3rd Street, who is the person to whom JURE. checks are made payable from the JURE account in Puerto Rico, for deposit to the JURE account at Hialeah, Florida. GONZALEZ is not an executive member of JURE and his name is seldom noted in JURE activities despite his obvious position with respect | te JURE finances . 2. Will identify pilot RENE DIAZ, who has _. been mentioned by MANUEL VARELA CASTRO as a pilot who. Yas. considered for a plan of MANUEL RAY to conduct air raids against Haiti. Will interview DIAZ concerning his affiliation with, and knowledge of, JURE. activities. 3. Will interview WILLIAM BILLY" cHUS (ox SCHUSS), 2468. S.W. 22nd Terrace, Miami, who, according to MM PSI ANGEL YERGO, was formerly chief of wilitary operations for JURE, but is no longer associated with JURE. Will determine from CHUS his current affiliation, his reason for separating from JURE, and knowledge of current JURE activity. 4. Will interview JOSE LOPEZ LEGON, a leader of the Ejercito Libertador de Cuba (ELC), to ascertain __, if former ELC members JOSE. and DUNNEY PEREZ ALAMO and / others, including NAPOLEON BECQUER, who joined JURE about the end of 1963, may have since withdrawn from SURE. os « De COVER PAGE Docld: 32299425 Page 2?
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ne B04 Rev. 3-3-59) ok oe - o>. ° UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 1 - CIA, Miami RRPFRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Ny ‘custome, Reg ton 11, 1 - INS, Miami (RM) - Miami (RM) - Le G-2, Ft. McPherson, Ga. (RM) 1 - U.S. Customs, KeyWwest (RM) Le OSI, Robins AFB, Ga. (RM) 1 = U.S. Coast Guard, Miami (RM) Copy to: 1 = Border Patrol, Miami’ (RM) 1 = State Dept. ; Cuban attains , 1 -. U.S. Customs, "Miami (RM) Miami (RM) onan 1 = ONI, 6ND, Charleston, S.C. (RM) Baan Report of: JAMES J. ro CONNOR . Office: Miami 5 Florida . | Dater © MAR 5 1965 | : | | Field Office File #:. 105-6661 ’ Bureau File #: 1052114543 Tile: JUNTA REVOLUCIONARIA CUBANA (gURE) a (CUBAN 1 REVOLUTIONARY JUNTA) — ALL INFORMATION | CONTAINED — | , _— HEREIN IS UNCLASSiF | Choc INTERNAL SECURITY = CUBA are Z Pes LASSIFIED a REGISTRATION ACT - CUBA BY SPC Synopsis: MM. T-1, who headed an 1 organization which joined with SA JURE during 1964, stated as of 9/64 that /the reputa- Ag tion of JURE among Cuban éxiles had dete : result: of failure by JURE-Leadex—MANU. , ; plish'an infiltration of Cubay MM T22, acquainted op Pe with. various - Cuban exile groups, believes JURE and the | anti-CASTRO organization Second National Front of the Escambray (SNFE) , may have shown sign of partial. unity. pb and both these groups are generally regarded as polit- L ; ically left and not pro-U.S. MANUEL VARELA CASTRO re= signed as military chief of JURE in 2/65 because of repeated postponements of infiltration of Cuba by 4 MANUEL RAY. VARELA holds the opinion that RAY lacks uc ; the ability to direct a movement against the CASTRO : regime. VARELA advised that recently RAY has suggested. plans for JURE to engage in an air raid against Haiti — ; from Venezuela, using Puerto Rico as an intermediate / ot base; RAY has also indicated plans to assist Haitian . _ revolutionaries to overthrow the government: of FRANCOIS DUVALIER in order to obtain a base in Haiti for anti= ; CASTRO operations. VARELA stated such tactics would | _. be a complete departure from JURE 's long standing . - Strategy of the need for an internal uprising in Cuba, ‘and the decrying of hit and run attacks fostered by other anti~-CASTRO groups. VARELA stated JURE funds have been received from. anonymous source, believed in the U. 5. government, but this subsidy was discontinued as 7A & orated as a gh This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is logned te your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. : LL SF Docld: 322994275 Page 4
“YY y on } MM 105-6661 - DETAILS ; . On September 28, 1969, MM T-1; a Cuban ae exile leader at “Miamd. , who: had, during _. the summer of 1964, ‘associated his organization with JURE, Stated that as “of ‘September 28, _ 1964, the reputation of JURE among Cuban exiles -had- seriously deteriorated, and JURE leader MANUEL RAY ree mained a prisoner of his much a publicized promise to be in Cuba by May, 1964. MM Tol gdvised that there had been considerable financial. mismanagement within JURE, wherein money was: \: wasted on firearms that were defective and which could have been. purchased on the open market at a better price than was obtained by JURE from the ERQUIAGA | Arms Company of Los Angeles , California. ™M T-1 Stated that efforts by MANUEL RAY to make | an infiltration of Cuba during May, and again on two occasions during July , 1964, had failed, with the result . that what contacts he had in Cuba were no longer in a | | position to: ascist RAY because of the jeopardy involved. According to MM T=1, MANUEL RAY was excessive- ly concerned with. maintaining relationships with JUAN BOSCH, the deposed President of the Dominican Republic: Governor LUIS MUNOZ MARIN of Puerto Rico, and "PEPE" FIGUERAS, former Costa Rican President; with the result that JURE's : ‘ability to obtain assistamce from the Dominican Republic. and a base in that country were hampered. MM T-1 stated that the. principal defect in the leadership of MANUEL, RAY is the fact that he is extreme- ly ambitious and conceited, and sees himself as the next =o 2 « Docld: 32299425 Page 5 ee es er a ee ETI _ ne eek