OPTIONAL FORM NO! 10 5010-106 MAY 1962 EDITION } Rr. * GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27 ( ro UNITED STATES GO, RNMENT c | Memorandum HEREI 1S UNCLASS! FIED EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE, -—. TO DIRECTOR, FBI (105-140181) DATE: 8/13/65 FROM SAC, MIAMI (105-10317) (RUC) CONF DENTIAL i . ALL INFORMATION CONT SUBJECT: _-° EMILIO C.“ RIVERA, aka ° NV / ~ IS-CUBA SO . . - Re Memphis letter to Bureau, 7/7/65. The following investigation has been conducted at “Miami : No informants or sources of information, normally. ‘gamiliar with pro and anti-FIDEL CASTRO elements and activities, recall having known the captioned individual. MM 492- Kom (515]s, Bina MM 776-S are all experiencea(@) . Cuban investigators; the first two maintain contact with some - gources still in Cuba, and with numerous Cuba news media. : PSI LAZARO SEOANE, familiar with many members of the Cuban Confederation of Workers, CTC, stated on a 14, 1965, he never heard of subject. \ “ins[sas}a pas contacted with negative results on July 20, 1965, 6, 1965. MM 776-S was contacted with . - negative results on August 4, 1965. MM 492-S stated on July ' 28, 1965, that he did not know the subject, but furnished the following data on August 12, 1965, which may be pertinent in evaluating RIVERA's information: Most followers of the youth branch of the| Orthodox Party either were, or became, communists. was a communist. see Ff >B RM Zz OQ eeeets EB s.991) 09 OEM 31h /~ Hp . au 134- 44) . ~ -DECLASSIFEY ON: COX OL cages omens senaae ELS: pad , ; (VFe) 70 AUG 1 ean ale Sh nap QA “ao O By, ai Gow CONFIDENTIAL Docld: 323285153 Page 2?
‘are not well known to MM 492-S other than RAU MM 105-10317, CONFIDENTIAL FIDEL CASTRO was a member o as Union Insurrectional Revolucionari#, . the violent group known no relation of subject, was the leader; and who was ret ana killed September 15, 1947. ee CASTRO was an active speaker and rab but was not a leader of anything as of that t Persons described as members of hi brother and sister of FIDEL, and CELIA SANCHEZ. Anyone at all well versed in the revolutionary days Qf, FIDEL CASTRO, and even at present, should know that ee: and not CELIA) Nis is the secretary and mistress of FIDEL CASTRO, and was in aN Sierra Maestra Mountains wi\th him. By naming LANZ, RIVERA probably means the well known PEDRO LUIS who fled from Cuba in June ,~ 1959, and returned to Wr Jeatiets on Havana in in October, 1959, denouncing CASTRO as a Communist. SA EDW ic L. SWEET was in Cuba at that time, as well as when cane ree and his r plane disappeared, and when Major HUBER TOS was arrested as a "counter-revolutionary".  RIVERA's repo on these matters is not factual. Major DIAZ LANZ ‘has a brother, MARCOS, but none cos toe by the name‘of RAFAEL, insofar as is known to MM 4 3-8, Special Agent SWEET. MM 492-S, (and many former close associates of FIDEL CASTRO support his statement) stated that neither FIDELmr UL CASTRO ever led anyone in any assault or battle; as a speaker , FIDEL worked Cubans up to a point of excitement where they would make an attack, as he did in the assault on Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953, which gave rise to the famous "July 26 Movement", but neither CASTRO was ever known to be in the front line, and for this reason, both RAUL and FIDEL always managed to escape. -2- SOMERS ae CONF BE. Docld: 323285153 Page 3 i
MM 105-10317 CO SONFIDENTIAL Confidential source, Dr. AGUSTIN CASTELLANOS, a famous childrens' Heart Specialist now in charge of the cardiac depart-— ment at Childrens Variety Hospital, Miami, Florida, was extremely active in many charity hospitals in Cuba. One of these was ONDI, mentioned by RIVERA, and another was the Sacred Heart Clinic of Dr. ALFRED ANTONETTI, also mentioned by RIVERA,. Dr. CASTELLANOS knows ANTONETTI very well, but he advised on August 12, 1965, that he could not recall ever having known RIVERA, or his mother who allegedly works at the Glinic, or his father who allegedly worked for many years at Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad. Dr. CASTELLANOS pointed out that his failure to recall subject or any of his family does not . preclude the possibility that each works, or has worked, just as subject claims they have. Dr. CASTELLANOS stated ALFREDQ\PEREZ ASELLA is a very close friend of his, and now lives goméwhe in Panama, and even though CASTELLANOS opposed BATISTA's return to power and was as active, politically, as his duties as \a doctor would allow, he never knew that PEREZ CASELLA was a follower of FIDEL CASTRO. 7 By subject's own statement, he left Cuba for the United States, in January 9f1958. Many people who had been very active in the guerrilla resistance to BATISTA, especially young men, had been virtually unknown to police authorities until after CASTRO's advent to power, January 1, 1959. His story of what happened is therefore not first hand after January, 1958, and his confusion of names could be due to that, but it appears to be the usual Cuban desire to give the impression of being of much greater importance than they really are, especially that portion indicating that his father wasan industrialist (shoes) worth over five million dollars in 1961, when dispossessed by FIDEL CASTRO. Cuba was noted for its many, small, privately ownéd shoe factories, and a problem now commented upon by CASTRO controlled newspapers in Cuba, is that of combining all into one, and taking used parts from the worst machines to repair and make serviceable the better of the other machines. -3- roca thecley bbl ~ Docld: 323285153 Page 4