(24-90136-10287P a a Sencaee JFK Assassination System Date: 6/2/2015 Identification Form gee er verre errerrererrvereererereeerrnerrreeerrenrrremrrverrreensanesosnansnsnsnanenanl SEE rrrerrerererereerseseeee senses Ake SFE reer rere reeves ee eeeneeensnenseeneeneehhhen reser evsunesnateneshteenenenensintant Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90135-10287 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  105-82298-NR Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: MD TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 04/13/1961 PAGES: 9 SUBJECTS : ELOY GUTIERREZ MENOYO DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 09/25/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : MEMO nnn ee et ee ee er rere rerwretrererinrwtstnanansnenensnenenenentnene ent et tA ee rnrontvatuntnitunsnshethehshehsthshsehshsehshehshsthehsthshthehnePetS SST v9.1 ; 29 | HW 50953 DocId:32336892 Page 1
OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 > ; not , vey ’ . . a /UNITED™ STATES cov” Sar ; . mo, ao Director, Br “00020236 . nXEMPT D. on Attaché, Madrid (105-61 Cy O JOSE PARDO LLADA On 3-27-61 Mr. the Cr A *idvised that his office here had receivé ‘notification that - subject expected to travel to Spain and that he was endeavoring | to arrange covera e in ordexy to know immediately. of subject's. f A po 7 ‘On 3459-61 JESUS MANZARBEITIA, treasurer of the dead - gation in Spain of the Frente Revolucionario Democratico (FRD);: advised that his group had received information that subject ; would probably be coming to Spain. MANZARBEITIA said tht some 2 .of the more hot-headed Cuban exiles in Madrid wanted to try to “ft intercept the subject at the airport here in order to administerO a severe physical beating to him. MANZARBEITIA said that- he : - personally felt that such action would draw unfavorable attention ’ . to the Cuban exiles in Madrid from the Spanish Government, and that he was doing everything possible to discourage such action. MANZARBEITIA pointed out that eeonon is a close friend of wi @ Wealthy Argentine named JORGE/ANTONIO, who resides in Madrid i’ and who is A close associate of ex-President JUAN PERON of _ 4 “ . Argentina, who also lives here. MANZARBEITIA said he is personally. we AS Ne ies toh oar 4) : Of AL Wee + Lith - —_ friendly with ANTONIO and thought he could learn from him when SS and if subject arrived in Madrid. MANZARBEITIA indicated that. he is not averse to subject getting his "1 but felt that a more careful plan should be worked out. ku) ae The information supplied by MANZARBEITIA was furnished ua a ; DSS La DEAN to Mr. on 3-29-61. re L NE S) . . of 7 iS owe. . On 4-4-6I' Mr. dvised that’he had just —, 7 fe Sr learned that subject had arrived in Madrid on 4-2-61. He said . oN. . en SS that subject had been missed by the Spanish Police due to the. a Af eee fact that he arrived in Spain at Barcelona and Tee Be | 2B al a [PLES ERE Gh ZH ~ Be nie 5. Bureau (1 iam . - APR 28 15 al S| : Bu = ~ : Oo: Be Boos =, Megtico cull) ane *8 199k 17 1960 ro 5 A. f° . ceteamenge gguseme il , | SS FA i. sons ee og as7 aaa | oo CDA :HD ono — me ae 6 imi a OR, Ce fey: a Ye a ae etter & n= ode M aN “| ; BQ i fn Ch a SOMA SIT either HY 50953 Boctld: 32336692 Page 2
i } - finaesa 105-615] (% ru) | the latter place to Madrid instead of entering Spain at Madrid. He indicated that subject had traveled from Mex to Europe via Canada on the KLM Airlines. Mr. vised that. _Subject is staying at the Hotel Emperatriz in Madrid. “ On 4~l-61 JESUS MANZARBEITIA advised that one of -. his sources had reported to him that subject had been seen at the Bodegon Restaurant in Madrid on 4~3-61 in the company of JORGE ANTONIO. From this it would appear that subject's . presence in Madrid is definitely known to the Cuban exiles.(K) a) On 4-10-61 Mr. @vised that for the moment “subject is being given protection by two members of the Directorate. General of Security (DGS) in Madrid. He said that he had re- ceived information on that date that the DGS was planning to -use a pretext in an effort to debrief the subject. : On 4-11-61 JESUS MANZARBEITIA and JOSE M. CABEZON, who heads the delegation in Spain of the FRD, called at the Madrid Office and supplied the following information. Approximately a month ago CABEZON, through a Spanish | newspaperman to whom he had given an interview concerning. EXD activities in Spain, became acquainted with AUGUSTIN( PARRADAS. | MSICILIA, and at that time CABEZON was told that although ° f PARRADAS..is ostensibly a newspaperman, he is actually a secret -. ‘ agent for a Spanish Government organization, not otherwise Sf how identified. (As has been previously reported to the Bureau~—~—— under the caption AUGUSTIN PARRADAS SICILIA, aka; IS - CUBA & SPAIN, PARRADAS apparently is employed in something of an informant capacity with the Information Section of the Spanish High General Staff.) CABEZON said that PARRADAS indicated an interest in introducing, CABEZON to his superiors, but that. this was never done. u) MANZARBEITIA advised that he had been approached by an Inspector PRADAS of the Directorate General of Security in Madrid, with which individual they maintain contact as repre- sentatives of the FRD here, to arrange an interview with the subject for the purpose of obtaining any information which the — subject might be willing to volunteer. MANZARBEITIA pointed . out that Inspector PRADAS is in charge of the investigation of Cuban matters in Madrid and is most helpful to them; accordingly he agreed to talk to PARDO LLADA and through sorcx/y’)|U) | HY 50953 Doctd: 32336892 Page 3
6a Shr if TT aa ene | ° [fieax id 105~61 3] GeLY) — " MANZARBEITIA said that they expected to be furnished a copy of the questions and answers on 4-12-61, and that they would ,. furnish a copy of the same to the Madrid Office thereafter. Au On 4-11-61 MANZARBEITIA and CABEZON made available. a copy of the first report of PARRADAS, which he had supplied to them. The contents of this report have been incorporated into a letterhead memorandum, 12 copies of which are furnished ‘ . for the Bureau together with 12 copies of an evaluation ‘memorandum. The confidential source abroad mentioned in the letterhead memorandum is MANZARBEITIA, and the memorandum has 4 “peen classified. confidential since both MANZARBEITIA and” | oo . -CABEZON are furnishing information of Buregu interest on a -. continuing basis to the Madrid Office. (K) u) * . MANZARBEITIA advised on 4-11-61 at the subject had told him and DELGADO that he was planning to proceed to © ~ Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, on the afternoon ' of 4-11-61. This is a resort ares Zé fu) Dé From the above it appears rather obvious that the interview of subject on 4-10-61 by MANZARBEITIA and GABINO DELGADO had been the pretext interview mentioned above by Mr. n 4-10-61. EQ) 7 - S$ . ‘Inasmuch as this is primari matter coming within | CIA jurisdiction and inasmuch as Mr. had been keeping §) the Madrid Office currently advised of all his activities in | aa - an effort to debrief the subject, on 4-11-61 he was furnished. orally with full information concerning all the interviews of | the subject that were going on and the apparent conflict of - i - interest between the Directorate General of Security on the one hand and the High General Staff, represented by PARRADAS, on the other hand. At the same time he was furnished with a copy of the report prepared by PARRADAS which contained the re-. Do, sults of his interview of the subject on 4~7-61. Mr. S) os _ subsequently advised op the same date that he had been in _ SN 7 contact with| through whom he was endeavoring to obtain a debriefing of the.” subject. He said that| [had apparently learned of ths) activities of PARRADAS“in interviewing the subject, and in- ‘dicated that he planned to have PARRADAS arrested. LK) SECRET 7A HY 50953 Doctd: 32336892 Page 4
Fa te ry “oe SECRET . -Junarsa 105-619) A) also indicated that he expected to have a report on that date on the results of his pretext interview of the subjec stated that he would furnish a co his’ report to on the same date. On 4-12-61 Mr. furnishe a COpy of the report received from  rgatel it was not identical with the report prepared by PARRADAS. (MANZARBEITIA had advised on 4-11-61 that they planned to-give Inspecter PRADAS-of the. | DGS a copy of PARRADAS' report. He said that this report ; esentially contained ail the information which had been furnished to him, MANZARBEITIA, by the subject, and he: planned to tell Inspector PRADAS that he could supply no additional information. It was, subsequently learned on 4-12-61 from MANZARBEITIA that it *. , impossible to deliver a copy of PARRADAS! report sDAS since the latter was not in his office on bali -6i, it -would therefore appear that the report furnichad —— Lvered points cbtained by » when he interviewed the subject when the latter first Cané to Madrid. ) As Qo translation of the report is set forth below: S) 7? JOSE PARDO LLADA is currently residing in the Hotel Emperatriz in Madrid. He cinims to be an enemy of Communism but #t the same time he backs almost all the measures adopted by the CASTRO government. He tries to justify the system and made various allusions to the lack of capacity of persons in responsible positions in Cuba and placed the biame on them for the present chaotic situation in Cuba. He does not describe 2 ‘4 CASTRO nor the members of his government although he recognizes that all of them ad and under the control of members of the Communist ‘Party. He claimed that REGINO BOTI, Minister of Economy, RAUL CEPE20 BONILLA, Director of the National Bank and ex-liinister of Commerce, and LUIS BUCH, Minister of. the Presidency, are all sntactonmundsts. ASCE uy) He said that.all the sugar mills will be -dynamited once an attack against Cuba is started. The same will happen to the princi incustries and centers - of production on the Island. BC u) . He does not believe that the execution of HQHGAN is connected with the flight of  . AMENOYO, although rumors to this effect GY S0953 Dactd: 323363892 Page 5
fisarsa 105-6191 4X1) . the matter mature, more successful. letterhead memorandum inasmuch as it was supplied by the CIA. him the truth inasmuch as both PERON and JORGE ANTONIO - -were completely ignorant about everything concerning . his journey. This latter would appear doubtful inasmuch | as JORGE ANTONIO went to the airport to meet the subject, and it is obvious that this latter and his people tried to. cover up the arrival.in Madrid of the subject. (It was evident that the subject has a good, 2 Ku) endship with ‘General PERON, whom he always defended From information obtained from subject, it -would appear that with regard to the aid which the govern- ment of CASTRO gives to Spanish Communists, perhaps the most important is that of furnishing Cuban passports to those who lack docwuentation. The subject considers that an invasion of Cuba will be a failure, insisting that Six or seven thousand men can do nothing because there are so many people who are still with CASTRO. Subject thinks it would be necessary to wait more time,tec let i that an internal uprising would be 3, if Cuba is attacked now, ail “the Communist part of agitation and propsvanda. Wo ‘Subject is currently awaiting the arrivai in Madrid of his wife and daughter, who took asylum in the Venezuelan Embassy in Cuba. Later on he plans to write a book concerning the atrogities committed by CASTRO and the Communists in cuba. @) The report of [__Jstatea that it is the joint opinion of him and his people that the subject continues to think Communist. According to him, the Cuban government is not directly responsible for the situation but cather the responsibility lies with a planning com~ mission in which. ere are foreign Communist technicians, including Russian, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian and Chinese. This report has not been incorporated in the attached 2 Mr. éntioned on 4-11-61 that , of that date enroute to Valencia, Spain, from which*spoint he planned to continue to the Island of Ibiza in the Balearic isiands. SECRET aa HY 50957 ild rs yt an unprecedented | campaign 5 On told him that “Subject planned to depart Madrid on thé aftéYfnoon Boclda: 32336892 Page 6