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104-10192-10274 . . fig one SSPORT ON THE PLANG OP Tie IOMTNT NT Reve sh MARIO Pel, «ABU POR ASTS OF TERRGHISM, SABOTAGE ANID TIS ATTOMT TET ASSA GINACTON oF Cu MABDANTE FIDE: CA. TRG ANE OTHER ABTAES ITA IVAS CP THE E-VCLETICNAPY GOVA-NYONT., FHUSTSSTED PY THE VIGILANCE OF THK PEOPLE NDS. MID ACPI OF TON SEATON OP ST OTE SUCUETTY. The self-atyled counter-revelutionary orrinisati-n “ ovt- slemto Fevoluct.carto dal “ueblo" (".E.P.) was crented about the middle of 19FG.by “navel. Ray Ritere with the object of firhting the Cuban ‘evolution. TCurine the tyranny Ray aspired to overthrow the rév ime of Fat'nta Lut to leave tataet the rule of Imperialism and of the ollearechy which served {it in our co:ntry. ‘Ysen the -evelution ber 1 to Sucue cati-tmrertalist an@ nanticnalisation lang Lay dfd not Kealtcte to tetres t% ant then to tare refuge in the co:ntry of his Yankee maaterr. In kis last days as Miniater of fublie .crko and taking a Ovar tare of his hifrh poaitton, Ray tegan to conoptre sith fis friertn ‘rem the dnayn of hie clandestine Strurgle sarccinat Ast ista and to or-vanise the ".2.h.. The “RP. ig a counter-ravolutlonary orgendecticn a cse members are drawn mainly from the well-to-do midéle claas, avon then -rofersicnal pecvle, sentor em:loyees, ca a elenents of the talertone, electricity and bank worrers urfong ant also disn@dents and trattors fron the 6th of culy “ove Jat onary “ovement. the favourite ehtle of the Inperlaliots are Us “opartrent of vtate, but tiewe mhen the United States broke off relations with uba the C.I.A. took over the ‘irection of the ccunter-revolut! n. “cay, on seeing that Tony YVarcna and iré Osrdona were orcferre' bh: the 2e1.A., adopted a somewhat untiaet-slined attitude oa* after the failure of Plava Girdn he left the “tercluttenary “ovnetl" of “ird and Varcaan, 2 move which clearly dfapleasel hoth the -'.0.4. and the Stite Cevartneart. “ay ana hia nearelates fn the ..A.:. tried Sa, Wiad Suprort anone sintler se cle fn Latin “merica and veminded -omulo Betancourt, “woz jarin wad *f-cueres to lead suprort to ‘heir counter-revoluticnary plans. In various interviews in Puerto fics and Uaraensa lay obtatnel a orentise thit these rcovern- meats would cooperate in ganda war material, nasesa and money for ‘:¢ co nter-revoluttonar: a’ anes or irba. ‘he J.].A., however, fndoead the Aserfcan Govern ont to intervere ard pronibit {ts lacteys frem au sorting ary attack other than that being organised cy tle T.2.Ac, and which tiok -lace tn trrftloat Playa ifron. any's lacs of alact: line resulted In the '.1... aecurin’ hia exoulsion from the .R.?. and the subatitutton ef wm amore Jocile lackey named T7nacio Sonzales ae “antoza, alian " ufiro” who is at present in the ‘Initad ‘atea as recregentative of the .2.P. whiel: is now closely conaented with the .T.t., the St te Neoirtment and to the “Touncil” of ‘iré Cardona ard “ony ‘arona. Ray assired to be *hanva to his roaations with {avasion of Flava Girén the “urtae tie nonths srior to the ber-in to confit acts of e “she. on the tetas of the 7.17.4. terrérisn on@ sib JAM caces
104-10192-10274 the “S.3.R. und other orvtintaationa; «sane ct _vecote demcralived ant disorteantated {ts n-ents ‘rown ne urnesto, woese real anne fa (J In coer ration with ‘ce “30th of Swater sisvement", - All thene acts of sabota-e Nad as thoir ovsact t'¢ crention of ar at-esphore of 2fsorder and chaos ard of >: tyeelacteal centitions faveurable te the invasion awiich they were then riasata-. Vatil tie treaving off oF ftclomatic relitiona the ".3. .-haany fa tavana Gicpliad econcmic att to the "28.0. ant eava visan to its mecters, aa {it did ty» other counter-revoluttonary -r-uo. The sabassay also rroevitel war sn terial, exoloaives, arsas, ete. throurh various Yankee offictala anone wisn aay be aen*loned one called DeWitt and ancther who used the nnre of Panera. ‘The Link with the U.S. Ectanny at this time, ‘hrouch whoa the “.P.F. roaive:! {49 money » Aarts and: ex loafvea, was tha vub-co-ri{nator of UL... named xofolfo cfanaroo who used the false nane ‘of “-ugenio". after the brenkine off of relations the C.I.A. used for the {tr ‘uetion and aintritution of explosives anioaras.n “rosin of Tubana wio had recaived svecial ‘raining In the c.t.4A. camps tn “lortta, Paniaa and Suatenala; anor’ whoa may be aentioned the C.T.A. a-enta cany Comellas,- ‘Jorge - Comellas, one Omar and rancaolo Lir-rsg and Mario fa: sip, #: ‘Oo were {int reduced Into Cuba bo the “.1.8. to make contact with, and to try to unify gone crouns of workers “Fier to. the invasten. which they were prepariag ian Suntenala., “ha SaveloGase of juaintdaaro wags alao-used for the entry an! extt of claments of the “.4.P. tuase wis the traitor ex-Cotandarte Migtalo Uiwg. Tha '.9.P. also received inlp from *he rencttonary and falanetat slercy, enreciaily econonic help droucht by the “rnnsetacaa Srother, Fray Jultan da’ Pastar rica, ™ha orfeats algo mite availntle to the ".f.P. the La Salle,’ Yatado and centro. ‘fvico Schools ta which to hold mcetines, -Other orieate who hel-ed the “sh... the $.5.0. and the S.3.R. were Priangel “Ivaas of santiago de Vuba, Fri Letroe of Sacaviiay, Pr. Vllaverde | ard fr. araryo S.d., whe wan the adviner of the J.9.C. in 'invava and. cloacly conrected 7ith “Onsignor mluardo ona siaavidal. vr. Toais Ulisabal cade avas}asie the orfinting press of the masazine “ha sufneeane” tn which ko afore eronisindn ana print counter- revolat onary propacarda. | tyolife Orennis:tfons auch.ag the “ALS.U., othe Caballeros 7 cat “8licos, *Ne Caballeros de Coldén and the. "\o.7 card the cuventud “gtul- Taras ‘lntélicas and eyreetaliy the antil Uatdlica also helred. tha c.0.7. an? the #.0.C. The fatlure of Playa Sirdéna ant the convequent arrest of counter-revolutionary clenents caused there eroups of traitors to not their reoition waa made worae by tie cristina in the J.5.4. fi‘welf wiich ended with the atamisaal of s)ilan “lles an2-other offiefala. In duly, throe — Os sé vuids MNederos, qa Cuban whose ‘0d. it was to mate contact mith the ‘.i.05. and other croup3 to‘ancourare tien ant to tr: to arovide thon with economic ati, exrloatves and wenpans. | “rreat> recetved dfrect fn-trucgions fron General Towling an? Terere) Taslor, wh: was then auserviaiag the °.7.4.. In these eorversattona there taok:- nart in th nama of Sonnales de Yantona, he wi at presant “altatl jfatens ATORE the inst ructions wifch Uraeato brouzht fron the 7.f.t. for the | >, was that which require! gia axentston of “aniel “oy from thea ot. “Sis roquest was conaltera? be buffiro fimacte * ionagaleg de Mandoza) and others’. wic versed to the @taniasal of tay cn the grounds thst he took deci sisna withent previously corvultias then.» a “onthe afte: the invasion, the C.1.4. aernt to 3 on country cne of :) e ore Tenacia she: a 9) eee a Tf represents * se UR. . in the.
104-10192-10274 and to the evolutionary Ray had prepared a plan of wcreasion acainst Cuba on behalf of the vtate Topartront indienting what resources he would need how. {t waa to be directed ere., 4isres.réin> both the. °.1. a and hio fellow cona:iratorsa in Tuba. ia the 2.r.A. wan by this time predoninaat in the covernaent of tre Vecle B roklat of crisis had bavn renctet. The roplucemert of Tay was & prerequisite for the wele'. Gon tier bay: to support tie vara. enee Tay had been dis- “af ved Gutina went to the Uc. and sate contact with officials of the t.I.t.. the state Cer rteent fn} S\e Coer+!? of “ird ahd Varoan. corbty afteraaria Urnesto also xert to the 0.5. and recoimended “uftno to his maaters In the J.7.4. a2 an obedient ann fe ithful person; “ufino tus rece've? the a rreval-of the’ 4ftrec'crna of the tele’. ane? recufned tere as rerresentative of the ee e ‘ . uffino lind Interviews with verious efftetata of the 7.I.A. and nico vith a hiek of Tlcial of te State “Tenrrt-ent naned Cosatvin, tts belne arranvet throunmh a fournalis* in Atami named “al Uerdr'x. Gocdvin ind’c *e!? ta tim the neseassity for the MORALE. to reenter the Pevoluttonary Coure!l @trected by “Gro Care: dona who fe the wrusice friend of Nenredy. After these interviews “ef na falormat “ase ta Tubs of, tha T.7.A.ts cont*ttfone for help- §Sne the i.°.f.3 0 6these were fr-edtint ely aoterted. These aifficult- Ses ariatn, out of the exrulaton of Uny having been resolved and the “...r. hnavinr becn ada cotniately autservinnt to the C.T.A. ounme?), the '.D.P. beein to receive toney, exrloatves and wenrons. Tha C.I.A. 40 continua ‘ifs work of subversion 'n the ececrse ef ble travels by the wea C.E.i. hells fn the forn of arant crnesto returned to vutn and sabotage but was 1 reated cepartment of State .eceurtty. the fLennedy Sovernzent Ta preparing a nse apraseion anvaines* our co. ntry. Uo to ta sresant Lt in planning foouse Caban and Latin ¢meriean nercenirtes, Including Cubans and Puerto ‘enna who telonved, or ve belon-ed, to the United Jtates Army. In t:ia cornexica there are trninin= canps tn ilorida, Sentral ameriea, the Dominienn serctlte ar! tre island of Vieques, nevr Puerto ‘feo. “he Yorkee Covernmort proposes to une against Cuba certain Certral acertean fovernments auch: aa Cuntemala, Nienravua, ‘esta Rica, ete. ant in this eceonmerfon there hava” taven plac’ recently moetines dvetwour the coceancers and offtctals of te forces of theaa countries ord a sretine of American Anbass—- adorn creatitee over by ‘henter oowles. As 19 known, “ith the obfect sof creatine tq Cuba an internal suftuation favorite to the arresatve slans wich ther are prenaring, the C.1.A. Fave vrrecine tratriuctions.to tce lestars cf the “ene. vor they ta acts which baran in rut inte nractice a vagt clan of *errarist = Jentenber, ant which, dn accordance with the siena of the C.1.A. wis to culminate with an attennt cn the live of the .rime Minister, Cr. Fidel caatro ue. “hetro plan wan that if they Seatroynd about. a dozen of tie priactoal shopea mn vretes$ ieetias would bea neld in front of the Presitential j..ace ant tuey woul? take advantare of ite of the Irime sinister tiufs to make ‘hLetr attenmct acatnes* the 1 ° and ot’er seabers of tve ceverrvent. “he “eprrtment of ctate Security froune ont the slan of achotare and » adoctin« "ensures of extrese virllance with tha aumrt of the worvers and the people, : ef the plotters and canuatn: others to flee, acon; thoy the orinsical organiser, antonio Veciana (“Vietor') who Left the country ce tne Srdoof Cetober,
104-10192-10274 into. which hat been amuccled a bazooka, -leadergs who ‘fn the Notel. Caorl und uve of the ‘.2.:.. Two days vefere, , The adenasl cation atterpt aas to take alace Crim Anartment GaA-on the Bt! floor of a *nll4ine No. 24, tverida de las & isfones, enenndes and othe weapons. The =.R.r. had, befére the dite set for thene acts of. SAbO ale, reorfaniaed Aboeds, in ‘the Followiar, way: ' Coordinntor itn the United Stated! Trnrcio Conzalor, de 2 Sentosa ("Rufino") Katicnal Toordinator Antonio Reynold Gonralez. “3 y Sonzalez | National “irector of icticn and _ | Antonio Vebdurn,« alias Sabotare “Vietor" or "Carlos" /a long 11{st-of other lesders tgs alae “piven? The olaa of gatotage suereatod by the C.L.AV ana conatdered by the tational Coordinator of tho “.R.T.. nnd. other co inter-revo'utfonary. teeided that it wouldve executed be the: “il itary Cperations cection, with the assistance of the .orkers' Courdinatore. _The plan envion,ed’ a series of acts of enbddtace on sep‘ember 29 in the antionaliced storea vin de Sirlo, J. Vallen, ‘sears, and the restaurrn’ of the “Capri” hotel. 411 these were to take place before the assagainiticn atteapt. The ssvbitage of Sin de Siglo wie directed by “rnesto smador del fifo, alins ““nflio", Provincial vorbvers! Soordiantor of the. .her., wis was to rive two incen*{ary bombs to “arta ce loa anreles Atach ib, the sec: tary of Antonio ‘eynold _ Gonzalez. jhe wag to place them In the store but the vieilance of ‘the people rsventes thia act of snbotnre from bein - cammitted. Foth were arrested. Tha oarson tn tharve of the snibatage of the J. Valles store was antonio Veelana ("Vtetor"). or “Carlos"),. who succedded {2 encnning to the United States. Veclann cave tivo Incendiary torts ton certain “adl who fa waid ta belong to the wrbotage leetica of "Neseate” and who 49 closely cornected with Veclana. ‘fle onvre them to a couple who have not yet been identified but here a,:: tn the virtlance of tha people srevented the anhotage from teinar comnitted. Veclarn wan also in charge of othe univa bare * ‘we deeertfary donde te conqufin Alau garay, an eroloyee in tha eractuurant, who fe at aresent under “arrest and whe sasd thit he was not able ta place the bon ft nena EPARS Babotnc in the lenra store wis in the hands of Cuan alias “Anibal’ who was the Provinctal Efrector of tetion and Gabotage thit is or eptember 27, -rneato: Ansdor del ‘fo, "Hrflio", and Taetnnna asoke ateut the subject to Talin Jorre “fas, tational “renasurer.of the re and aszved her to place two tn end fury. bomke teh this store. Thez rtcked her up on 5th Avenue nant 42 Otreat tn “iramar, in a white Ta58 Pulek ard exniained the twitter to “crj) ah® avrced.to carry out thia sabotage miacfon. .'anter they returned her to the saca rlace, tinvine arranged that shewuld baat the corner of “nlinno an? Jan José Usreete at S30 pot on Sriday, .antesher 29, where she would be met by Juan “annel Tequirto “fas ("Antbsl"\., +4 the fine arranved \nfbal picked un ‘aifa at the strant corner in uta licht-blue 1963 Buick car and tore -rourct until S.45 c.3. shan he turned into anintad Street Sowards tnan ctreet, tacing out the tao ireentflary Somes, breaking the sertowhth “44 teeth, thun makiar thes rendy fer use an’ ivan then tov alsa Corce “fans. ohe rot sut of the car and went ‘nto orara, caine at once to tha cecdni Sloor 1na a Sie a the anvelope sentalntes one of tha bab bomue 'otreen *he rolls of cloth cna went down to the cround Tloor and tables Jlavinr tone thia she art ed to slnee the other bord but was Usecoveare? by one of employees and arrested. tha
104-10192-10274 / H P a ‘of Venezuela, Sefor Zurbarda and the ch . with Embassies ani wha placed the incendiary: bonta On July 13" sixteen diplomitic. revrepenta‘tives of varicus Latia "american countries visited tiis finca, ““Yexieo. and ‘cuador. ‘These dislonits held .a meeting with Anador Odio. fel -ChargS d'affaires of Colemt{a,. who took with her -Shargé d'affaires of Colombia. On hearing that at. the Finca 'lurra,:situstes ‘2 £1 Yorado on the ront between Zasay and Ulcana, the property cf szador Odfo-and his. wife Sam cel Torre, aus jcious meetings had bean taking place, an investigation ‘was carried vat which Showad that this finca was: frequently vinited ty member of **e Atpliomatic — - corpo accredited ‘in Havana and particulary by the Charge d'arfaires ! argé d’affaimw of Colosbia. It was also faen found that the ftnca wan visited ty Antonio Reynold. Gunzblez and his wife Tereyita Alvarez, who 18 at present abroad, and aluo by “sarin de los" anceles Abach Pib, who acted as a. Ling in Fin de Siglo. not including any froz Brazil, and Sara del Torro witch lasted over ‘two hours. They rerained in the finca until.1 a.m. and the lay: to leave was the wife of the —. | in her cara large . meat und lard /or. co..nter-ravolutionaries in asylum. iare6 dthffair-s of Venezuela took Antonio bach Pib to his Embassy in order that Maria luz (i.e ueed to quantity of On one occasion the v! heynold Sonzalez and hh. + might epeak to her brother, o‘uardo, who was in aasyluz ba the producer of the televiston programe. “fan and Sod"). At the sane time ieynold UCoozales had discussions wit: other asyleas. keynold Gonzales, who recantly carried out an act of sabotage - in. the warehouses of La Zuyonera a* Luyano, was arrested at the Fiaen flurra. &. Habach Bid was tie teacher of the children of the : 7 another diplomatiwne visited .the the Chared d'Afcudres ef Fanama. Sefor nad deer sipplying t?.e counter-revolutionarlen TRinn finca was Flvira Zayse, CiTo anc his eife, who in asylum in various oxbaesies, were arrented. irics to Anril 7, the date of the invasion, the entacsy mith. which the VoE.P. had the closest contact was that of Venezuela, <¢fter te invasion the “4K.P. continued to renain {a tonch with the Yenerueian Chargé 4° Affatrea who introduced the Colonbian and ‘Vanananise Chareaéo d' Affaires. The M.R.r. gave £4000 a month to thea Venesuelan Exbasay for tho maintenance of the asylees anc als> paid for the passaczes of those. who left the country. The Vereru2ian Tmhaesy served all the counter-revolutionary "roups, .accertad an excossive number of.asylees, took into ite charge papers anc possessions and permitted neylees to fa ont of the Enbasuy and return. The mmbasey of Italy has: also served co -ntemrevolutionary proups, pereitting auch leaders ag Tepin Fernance: Bacdus 9 Btay in ita restgence, und also talking available the @tviomitic tag for the corressonmience of these orranisiations. na one occasion the dinlomstic ba: waa used by the “.2.8. to tring from Vilami a report from Ignacio G. ce Nerdoza “tufino". Is ess also used to | boring in money for the W.0.C., “.2.R., Unidad etc. ‘ ; 2 /nere follows a long. 11' t of persons arreate’ and woapons Aiscovered in various varts of Savana and neighbouring. towns ./ Por twa months the leaders of the “.R.P. had carefully saxe plenned an aswassin:tlor attemnt ecninet Comandante Thiel Castro and other lwadern of the Sevolutionary Sovernnent Mus this plaa a. wag frustrated by the vigtlanca of the peuple ant the oportune intervention of the cepertnent of wtute Securgty. 5. .
104-10192-10274 “The plan was aperoved by the Yorkero' Coordinators of the M.R.P. at a meeting which took place at the office of the National ~ ‘Comalasion for. Alphabetization, eiturted in the former “scuela del Aogar, ‘the plotters pretending. to be alohabetixera. The office was nde available dy ‘ector R. Lope Fernandez (now under arrest) and — by. the woman in charge of the biulding whose name wao Fitzgibbons ~ .who'aleo provided them with alphabet{ization manuals in order that the diesimulation might be complete. The plan was-made known to Rufino, the C.I.A., the State Department and to iro Cardona. = The bazocka. was: be. fired from a window of the: apartment. , st the platform installed on the north terrace of the Presidential Palace at dusk. After firing the barooka the plotters were to | “throw fragmentation grenades in order to cause panic and so that _ they might tn the confusion teke flight dressed in militia and “army. uniforms and armed with their autowatic wae waopons. - The Departvent’ of State Security with. the assistance of the vigilance of the people has thus not only. succeeded in frustrating the criminal acts“of sabotage and attempted assassination which | had been vclanned but Ihns also almost totally deatroyed the countor- revolutionary organisation of traitors and enenies of the people, Tirected. by the C.1.A., wiich called itself Movimiento “evoluctonarto del Pueblo. MINISTRY OF THE, INTERIOR