eet Office Memorandum - unrrep states GOVERNMENT TO 1 Ghief, Contact Division ee DATE: 7 -May 196% mRO0M 1 Ghief, New York Office a suagact: Carlos Guillerm Nerques Sterling-Operational Opportunity 1. Carlos Marques sterling’ : who lives at 355 East 7énd Street, Ape 14C, New York, New York, indicated to the local FBI that he would like to talk to someone fram the cy and we arranged to duterview him at his home on 24 April 1964. 2. Marquez Sterling’ describes himself as a member of a Cuban family with a distinguished record cf public service (his father was Ambesaedor to the US during the Frerklin D. Rvosevelt terms and he, himself opposed Batista's nominee for president in 1658. He sada he ig now general delegate (top official) of a Cvban exile organization known ag the Free Cuba Patristic Movement (Movimiento Patriotico Cuba “ Libr.:. ‘This novement consists cf $1 clubs scattered throughout the US with an estimated five thousand adhere:ts. 3. Marquez Sterling wanted to talk to the Agency because of the following ecirewastances: ; . : f 4 Humberto Quinones, who is. Secretary General of the Cubsn’ Patriotic Movement in Miami, hail recently received telephone call from one Francieco Algbau Trellis, identified by Marquez Sterling as a former nenber of the Supreme Court in Cube and now very close to, if not an actual recipient of support fron, the Agency. Alabeu suggested to Quifiones that the Agency might very-well be interested in the Five Cuba Patriotic Movement“if it were made conscious of, ite size and influence within the exile community. Quifiones brought this to Marques Sterling's ettention and also made an effort to commumicate with someone in the Agency though one Miguel Cw pay an officiel df the Pan American Union. . At the seme time, ueg Sterling received a phone call from Menuel Artime sougit Bis support and backing for leadership in @ military capacity, suggesting possibly that — Marques Sterling might be interested in the civilian leaier~ ship of a wiified exile movement. 4. Against this background Marquez Sterling believes he should speak with comeome in the Agency sufficientiy highly placed to make @ commitment if the progran he plane to“lay out is of interest. St yy. P05
14-00000 & - oe green aS Ded | f 6 aBa 5. Briefly, thie is what he has: a. 61 clubs (in almost every state) of which he is the national head. b. on underground in Cuba (but he refuses to estimate its strength. ) ce. communications channels to and from Cuba, mostly vie Mexico, and also, in emergency, thru the Uruguayan diplomatic pouch to his sister who is still in Cuba. 6. Mail is received and sent, on the Cuban end, by who covers Savane end ite nearby provinces, 3 aid to be @ person with good credentials in the Gatro régime and a specialist in food production. In Cuba he is regarded as a staunch supporter of the government. wWpsomena_Oniante-sni-nea =e ex secre ia believed, within Cube, to be & b friend o TO. ae 7. Mail comes out via Mexico thro one Gonzalo Chirinc, an official of the OAS, Apartedo Postal 7458, Mexico, DF. Mail is routed tc Tuba through Mexico but Marquez Sterling aid not offer to ddentify the live drop, except to say 4% 4a @ 44fferent person. Prequency of mail. exchange is about fifteen days. 8. It could be derived fror the conversation with Marques Sterling shat he would like Ager:zy support in the form of money ené emas, to equip the younger members of his groups who would encamp cutside the US. 346 nection is to keep them in a state of readiness for such time as the OAS deciées to move an invasion force against Cuba. 9. Marquez 3terl, has sent a memorandum on the activities of his group to Thomes Mann~(whom he claims to know). A copy will be made available to us soon. He has also promised to make copies of his recent ecrrespondence with Cuba evoilable to us in the near future. it. We assured Marques Sterling that we would faichfully report his cause +0 Washington and gave him a iine of communication to us. He seered highly pleased with the interview. abd imac WH -¢FO$ f}