ae 88 .  Datey 02/28/05 JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM Released under the John F. ennedy Assassination Records Ollection Act of 1992 [(44 U5c Pio? Wore). Casef#iNW 53217 AGENCY INFORMATION CIA 1L04-10308~-10240 JERK LA DIV WORK BELE sso: oe aN i a” ne RE Se MEAL MI Fed AIAN RIE GIN RYA UIA SHO. A2HN* se, em em ree nA SM SAIN AHH SS at AGENCY ORIGINATOR FROM OPITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS | -boicueiie | “CRASSTIPICATION ' CURRENT STATUS “DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS [R] RESTRICTIONS : TO + a * * * _ NW.53217 | DocId:32373726 Page 1 Se A rar le eA DOCUMENT INFORMATION OTA ZRKNICK: INVESTIGATION OF CUBAN ESPIONAGE NET IN MIAMI. 06/02/1964 3 JEK AS SASSINATION | ZRENICK PAPER UNCLASSIFIED ee if ; ; RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC ~ RELEAS SED WITH DELETIONS o7 706/04 JERK-WEO? + LOG2397 Fa: 20040323~ ata ie Noe Sr sa so Se a ain ge, aK: ENG SN ok ne sehen "sae sty ens SA a Se ‘Wk Ar ode ae hon NOK a OU Nie ma Su Swe hm ee, one nde Hn Se HE ANG Stn Lone se! see wwe sn tee me Sek, mt ain it sets me pip Yet Some tt a a SM ~ ITEM TS RESTRICTED 104-10308-10240
; ark. BOK Re Investigation of. Cuban Espionage Net in Miami, _ Florida by FBI who shared take with CIA, CIA’ _ corresponded with field stations re same, suesiheneeiN, . : . em loo Non-CS documents sensi snannoonat orempeneneenetet tennant nul oneeetimteet: 8 Apr 63 = «the FBI @ an SW message fron ZRKNICK -. . apent-in Miami to CUIS Headquarters in Habana, Said Juan ARMESTOY (should read AMESTOY) CIA. - agent/ told ZRKNICK agent about a trip he planned - to Cuba with other Cubans. That an internal - uprising was being prepared and six men, four ~ Cubans and two foreigners, had already arrived in Cuba to assassinate Fidel. “Ricardo CABRERA told RIN last hight that 7 from now until December 63 many things are expected in Cuba and that the American Government will take advantage of the opportunity of the attack on the Russian boat ~~ to control the gusanas (worms) who work on their own and then in the work of CIA in its job of infiltration. ARMESTOY says that they always take an American with them and it is he who gives the orders and communicates by radio with the airplanes which explore the route. ARMESTOY ‘took eleven thousand five hundred pesos to Cuba. ~Be careful. Regards." /COMMENT: ZRKNICK at _ request of CUIS Havana, Continued to report on AMESTOY. AMESTOY was later arrested and killed in a gun battle or executed by the Cuban Gov't.7- 19 June 63 = Memorandum to the FBT from CIA, Subject Ri Ricardo. CABRERA Amoedo: CSCY 37776, "ineeven NsuiAIRneninncnSeer SSRN SunneoneNesoMiN: — meNtas nn coneecimmrinenncminnnsivinaionniempe nmnneenan Attached memo dated 30 Apr 1963. states. that. Ricardo - CABRERA Amoedo aka "Cayo" who lived in the U.S, - returned to Cuba when Castro assumed power Jan 59, returned to Miami in 1960 as an active G-2 member and continued to work as an informer for CUIS. _ During 1960 he went to Cuba and had an interview ee -- . with VALDES, Fidel CASTRO, WARANJO and Juan ORTA, Ce then Secretary to Fidel. In Miami CABRERA worked - for the G-2, together with PIMENTAL (fnu) and Pepe - .NOVA, who were chiefs of G~-2 in Miami, Was a man who would sell his mother, Became an American citizen and used to brag about being a member of CITA, NW 53217 DocId:32373726 Page 2-
“a we, e * 12 Aug 63° = ~On 15 March 1963 the FBI's ORENICK supervisor met with CIA personnel for discussion of the . case and promised to keep CIA Hqs. informed af all developments, The FBI provided text of SW message from AMAPOLA Letter drop indicating travel of one Evaristo FERNANDEZ to Costa Rica in connection with some kind of operation, We sent _the information pine gaately to Costa Rica | vein eee UNA aAteivet 12 Aug 63 © = Boe u Memo from FBI_to CIA attaching text of Although in code, deciphered, it SaKe “the following: “Antonio ROJAS told me the following. — CIA is still recruiting people but they are waened before “hand that they have to accept Huber MATOS as their _ . deader., My friend, Luisito AGUIAR, who was -. =  gecond in command to Tom DIQUE, was recruited and he will soon be sent to Cuba, RID told me the following: my prison mate Ernesto SANTANA, was also recruited a few days ago and sent by CIA and transferred to another place for his preparation, Tony, no good, and I believe the -attempt (Con the life) of the horse would be more - effective, tell us how the check-out is going." 3 Sept 63° - © TOP SECRET DINAR ~ Memo for Chief of Station, | iy parpaneac sanenpieianenr 2s te neapreemnasaanaineeneeaanennmnanaS nsec avnaneenee “semen yeunnnininaeenintnnuosanntAgterinntn “base 5 para 7 A, states that AMAPOLA /érypt for. curs? with outstation located in the Miami aréa, has” for its main objective the anon of CIA - important agent, possibly the P/A- f “Marrero7 has been identified by the FBI a naturalized U.S. citizen of Cuban birth, That” the FBI is currently reading his S/W messages, and.-that - CYA is now interroeating a WAVE asset (?) who has ~ an unexplained connection with the agent, Another - WAVE asset (mame unknown) who has had contact with -the agent, has been interrogated and found to be clean. A third WAVE asset (iden. unknown) in contact with the agent, has been turned over to - the FBT for possible use against the agent." | NW 53217. Docld:32373726 Page 3 __
ed méssage Asked following gestions: 1. Whether there is concentration of the Yankee Army. oe Whether ‘there is a concentration of mercenaries , 2. 3. Whether there is an increase in pressure on “those sympathetic to Cuba and the Left. 4, Whether active counterrevolutionaries are. disappearing. . 5. To inform fully via CANDI (CUIS clandestit eo drop in Mexico City) the reaction of the Gussanos | and the Republicans to the — death of KENNEDY. -emanenanastnrrrennnsinancinannaagincirsisiniieire nda ll Mar 64 =. Vol. “Trt - TOP SECRET: DINAR,. Memo for Chief, JMWAVE from SAS /CT, Gated ft . Memo attached copies of ZRKNICK . intercepts. os provided CIA by the FBI, 25 Dec 63 plain text letter. (translated from - Spanish to English) to Irma SUAREZ in Cuba. Para.” . 6 states "I will tell you about Kennedy's death | -in the other letter when I am in New Jersey,” All. that is a ?." ~ 30 Dec 63 letter from Miami to Irma in Cuba, | Para 3 states "Irma, I certainly did not forget those medicines you asked me for. I was very sure that they would give them to you and that you- would be able to go to Camaguey to see Pepe.". senneenrtietiyrg Selva AA atmntaetmnaes sete “cmsseninoiicenidpma natant tin ans hTER RNR NIA SMNACNH Aum 2 June 64 - 0p SECRET DINAR Vol. Iv, PRI Summaries _ Letter to Irma SUAREZ in ‘Cuba from H. DIAZ in Miami, ates : “Tema,” “de not b bother asking Manolo GARCIA a the ~ letters which he has sent me, since I turned them . over to CONTE AGUERO and he has read them," _/COMMENT: This appears to be Luis CONTE Aguero, a- - former JMWAVE Station asset terminated in. 1969, His file indicated that he is a suspected Castro agent. He reportedly got the Cuban vote for - President-elect Carter and was in Wash., D.C. in) December 1976 with the Carter transition team.7> End | of. “Box a HW 53217 DocId:32373726 Page 4.