me | as 105-5948 os organization rather than through file on GUTIERREZ “MENOYO as. a UE _ an individual. Accordingly, Miami file 105-2102 (Bufile oO - 1105-82298) is being closed at this time and all leads regarding ~~ the II-Front’ or GUTIERREZ MENOYO will be handled in 105-5948. _'+. For this reason a report was prepared at this time instead of ee: ove the Letterhead memorandum | as requested | in referenced Bureau = - letter.” ee . . a — “INFORMANTS ee ne ae + Identity ; oo - oe Location Tae T- Lis mM 639- S 4344238 Sub A-479 and 7 ae 134-238 Sub A-478. “ - : ' ¢ 4 " ine pee - ° = C*% - . Ce ce oo Se - COVER PAGE --— ot | WW 50953 Docld:32336679 Page 3
x SECRET. ‘Hector Peter Ordetx, 1802 Lamar St, Tampa, Fla., furnished on 1/26/62, a quantity of miscellaneous papers, some of which bore the name of Roberto De Los Rios (100-431672) and appeared to be correspondence between him and members of his family in Cuba. One of these papers was a carbon copy of a typewritten letter in Spanish to "Dear Father",dated 4/7/59, at Tampa, with no signature. The writer said that Nelson had written him aSking for declarations of the committee in regard to Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo | and his insidious declarations. No further information. 109%433672-27 D. 16 17 (3% 36) Correlator's Note: It was noted that Roberto De. Los Rios had a brother named Nelson. ‘ Rolando Arcadio Masferrer Ro jas. (100-344127) advised on 4/29/59, that he had heard that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo and William Morgan, former leaders in Sierra del Escambray, Second Front, were dissatisfied With the situation: in Cuba. ° 1004344127-18 p.19 (3% CIA Information Report, dated 5/19/59, revealed that ; Temistocles Fuentes Rivera (105- 62455) stated that when Ernesto "Che". Guevara arrived in Las Villas Province, Cuba, during the revolution, he was in the zone of the Segundo Frente Nacional del Escambray which was headed by Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Gutierrez and an armed troop met Guevara with drawn guns, accused him of being a communist and demanded that he and his men leave their area of operations .( u) 105462455-10 p.l ise MM- 635-S,_ employed by the Cuban Air Force, - ‘advised that on 5/20/59, Major Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Major Pernas, and Major Armando Fleitas, all leaders of the Second Front of the Escambray, came to consult with Major Marcos Diaz Lanz, chief of the Revolutionary Air Force in Cuba. Gutierrez told Marcos Diaz that they had 400 men who were unemployed and whom they would like to put to workin order to keep them out of trouble. KA Ww dese Encl.p. SIU SECRET | WW 50953 Docld:32336679 Page 4
SECRET a 7 . On 3/18/59, Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo,at a press conference, stated that his. organization* supported the Castro Government "as long as it - lives up to the principles for which we fought", and that if it should deviate "we will take whatever steps circumstances dictate". He further stated that his group was 100% anti-communist. , On 4/20/59, Gutierrez left Havana to visit Miami at the invitation of Miami's Mayor, (source not clear). Paul Bethel, Press Officer, U.S. Embassy, Havana, Cuba (protect identity), advised that Tony Beacon was appointed Gutierrez's press secretary on the above mentioned trip and Beacon was paid by Nick - ‘Bartone, an American who was attempting to sell C-74's (Globemaster I) to Cuba. - "The Havana Post ",dated 5/27/59, carried an article to the effect that the Second National Front of the Escambray (1105-78831) had issued a statement which endorsed the Agrarian Reform Program of the Cuban Government. The statement was signed by Gutierrez, National ; Chief, and Armando Fleitas, Secretary General of the organization. Add. info. according to PSI Hugo Gonzalez La jonchere (protect identity). 74 )(iL) 105£78831-1 p.1,2. | — (5938 , | . f Aq poreign Service Dispatch from the Department of State, dated 5/28/59, revealed that Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo had told the Embassy in Cuba that the Segundo Frente Nacional del Escambray (105~-78831) was ~. strongly anti-communist and would take action if necessary should the Governmen/ome under communist control or domination. : ur) / State also advised that’a source, who had spent a month with the Segundo Frente under the command of Gutierrez, advised that the group was non-political and definitely not communist. Gutierrez felt that Fidel Castro had a number of communists among his advisors and he believed one of these waS "Che" Guevara. Guevara had been joined by some of the members of the Segundo Frente, with Gutierrez's: approval, but Guevara's i followers had not been allowed to take arms with the Segundo Frente é; u) | | 105/78831-3 p.2,3,4 P's b+) (5938: 1s Now DEtlmss pew Dept. oF SO CO Strte |u-7, DW * Second National Front of the Escambray. 3-(4- Gf 4 = lb fish | “19-98 -6- SECRET | (grit) a ee : ‘ | WW 50953 Docld:32336679 Page 5
SECRET Francisco Rodriguez Couceiro, 6424 S.W. 38th St., Miami, Fla., advised that the Crusade of Revolutionaries Against. Communism (CRAC) had planned an invasion.: of the Isle of Pines, Cuba. In June, 1959, Eloy | Gutierrez Menoyo and William Alexander Morgan, Commanders in ‘the Cuban Army, were in contact with the Movimento Revolucionario Democrata in Havana, and this was known to the CRAC in Miami. Rodriguez had advised the group in Cuba and. the anti-Castro movement in the Dominican Republic, not to trust é¢ither Morgan or Gutierrez because he considered them both to be loyal to Castro, and their cooperation with the group was for the purpose of entrapment. a \ Ody \ Add. info. according to Rodriguez. 105~81502-7 p.20 (6y38! ras A teletype from San Juan, dated 6/5/59, concerning Nicaraguan revolutionary activities, set out the following: "Second Front Escambray Forces under Commandant Ely Gutierrez Menjoya requested immediate dissolution from Government. Message conjectures that this may mean a breakaway from policies of July 26 and could mean participation in other revolutions." Not further clarified. YU Ais35 2-222-S0F Hw) LMM 685 -S:_ ip 5) on 6/26/59, that Paul Hughes, an American priot, flew for Commander Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo during the Cuban Revolution. Hughes was suspected of taking guns that were stored at Miami International Airport and which belonged to the Cuban Government... Hughes had come to Miami from Cuba on a tiission for Gutierrez. 7 4 . : On 7/2/59, Sergio Diaz Brull, former advisor to the former Chief of the Cuban Air Force, advised that Gutierrez was sympathetic with the anti-Fidel Castro Movement and was waiting in the mountains of Cuba with approximately 2,000 men for‘instructions when to attack the forces of the Cuban Revolutionary Government. fo 105~79828-2 p.B, Encl.p.7 (5438 oe SECRET -7 = ; co HW 50953 Docld:32336679 Page 6