104-10062-10046 ae vente a ce oe nH mY eet GRN ht nS NN Fe = MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Operations : & MAY “973 SUBJECT ob Media Inquiry to Cuban Exile Joi urnalist in -Miami re Cuban Involvement in Watergate | Case and Attitudes in Miami ‘Azea- 7 1.) This memorandum is for your information only. 2. On 7 May 1973 we were advised. by Stetion WH/Miami + that. 7 two employees of a Station WH/ Miami proprietary hadstold the tation that one Rene VIERA Gonzalez, a Cuban exile journalist who writes for Diario Las Americas and owns. the Westch ester Mali Bookstore in Miami received a call in early May from one FNU GOTTLIES who said. he worked for the Times in Washington. _.{GOTTLIEB is believed to be Sanford GOTTLTss, 11102 | Brandywine St., Kensington, Md. who was formerly an employee of the a National Committee on Sane Nuclear Policy”™. ‘A pretext call to the Washington bureau of the New York Times verified: that one * "Sandy" Gottlieb was employed there.) GOTTLIEB asked VIERA what people in Miami were saying about the Watergate case and what partic ipation the Cubans had in it. He specifically asked about the activities of Reinaldo PICO (former 2506 Brigade member), Orlando PIEDRA (former Chief of Cuban Bureau ‘of Investigation in Batista Government), and Rolando MAS FERRER (former Cuban Senator and self-admitted former Communist). He also asked if ITT had an office in Miami, whether Joaquin SANJENIS Perdomea (former Chief of a WH/Miami. proprietary “who was amicably terminated in 1972) and Juan A. PAULA (former WH/Miami proprietary employee dnd former Controller of Revolutionary Democratic Front-FRD-and currently employed 6b an OGC proprietary) were still in the Miami area. He was 2 interested in Edgardo BUTITARI, a Cuban born in West Tampa, ‘Plorida, a former Cuban Congressman and Minister of Commerce who is reportedly associated with Mr. Charles "Bebe" REBOZO. ccording te GOTTLIEB, BUTTARI was appointed as “political chief in the Republican Party", ed OY #4308
14-00000 ‘provided no information te GOTTLIEB on the basis that he is a 3. GOTTLIES apparently has current. ‘information on the . activities of the persens he mentioned; for example, he knew that Juan A. PAULA was involved in the jewelry business (PAULA and Antonio Felix GENOVA Corzo, a WH/Miami proprietary © employee recently purchasad a Jewelry business) and he knew that Reinaldo PICO had resided in Venezucla and had recently . returned to the United States. The phone conversation lasted. about 45 minutes and GOTTLIEB told VIERA that af he came to Miami they, would have Lunch together. - 4 4. VIERA does not know GOTTLIEB but talked. to him because “GOTTLIEB said he was recommended by who has resided in the Washington area for more than ten years. was a former Agency asset and is currently Chief ‘of The conversation was initially in English but continued in Spanish. . VIERA said he ‘Cuban exile and did not want to get involved in internal U.S... affairs. We do not know why GOTTLIEB was interested in Joaquin ~ SANJENIS or Juan A. PAULA. - (Attached are Summary biographies. +! oF ‘persons of interest to GOTTLIEB. 3) oe : 5. On 7 May 1973] | Chief, MIMUTUAD, was briefed on the substances of the report from WH/Miami pertaining — to Juan -PAULA, who works for tha HEHMUTUAL | which utilizes . as office space cover. Among OTHEY duties perrormed by the p proprietary are the monthly checks sent to the denendents - o£ imorisoned assets which are signed in true name by PAULA. | was unaware that PAULA had purchased a new jeweiry usiness in association with Antonio GENOVA; however, he feels that GHMUTUAD is protected and. compartmented from the WH i/Miami _ proprictary and he has the utmost confidence in the proprietary baing able ta field any questions, GHMUTUAD communication with - VA said tha jand could possibly be Linked. to but the trail wonld end there. He £eels that eltner proprietary could only be linked to the Agency by innvendo. {He did say that Howard HUNT was aware of HIMULTUAD when he served as C/CA/EUR.) | feels secure as . the proprietary_is by unlisted paons and a post office box. .. far ag | and| [and | |are concerned. .
14-00000 ee: Director of Security - rs Attachments: A-F Biographic Summaries \ . , : : oh IZE 6. mentioned that the bona fide law firm occupying - the oti ion’of the offices are the attorneys for (These lax are cleared and witting.) .° Qne of the lawyers ose famvers ere cleared 3 be the "biggest canary singer of the year”. Tha common re ceptionist area is anned by (MENUTUAD employees who also monitor all tel . calis, incoming and outgoing for the other law firn. emmy mentioned that there have been numerous calls from the media " and ovtgoing overseas calls to such places as Japan and Europe. 7. [wih be traveling to Nassau and returning -via Miami on 10 May 1973. He intends to talk vith his proprietary neopie at that time on other @(EMITUAD business and will also contact COS, WH/Miami. (The COS has been aler ted t6 expect — a call from EVANS on 10 May 1975. } a - bry Bae Janes BE. Flannery James E. Flannery ° Acting Chief CO Western Hemisphere Division yo