(tor ne cr oF. * - = e oe w/c 87-54 4 FE3 1967 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Plane ao . dated 2 February. 1967.. 2. This memorandua is for your iaformation. “4 & a , Na iRle gue at Sette nando - ‘Bo in reepunge to paragraph 2 ef reference, wa -, Divigiem has usde a review of cur Miami Station and . Headquarters files to determine those persons listed in paragraph 4 and all persons listed, im the Fat report * attached to reference with whou there hag been any . 7 ~ Ss. Of the persons listed im paragraph 4 of reference a the following have had sone association with the Agency: up es aoe Be David Cabeza Pa b. Yather Diace Radrigal _— ; ©, dwulie Cesar Horzilla -@. tUdieted below are the persons cited in the Year - report attached to reference who have beom aggociated with - |, the Agency. Of these, only two,-Jesas Rodriguez aud Arturo Mayans-Alvarez are currentiy exployed. None of:the remainder have say current relationship. Kesbers of the 2506 Brigade are Ghowse ag suck im perantheses after their Banes &. Rolando Masferrer Bojes (Informant Fey - Havana Station~-1943) - an & Beinuaido Regelte Rodrigues Peres (member of 2506 Grigade) ©. Jose Eanuel Macias, Jr. (nenber of $806 Brigade) 4G. RBamire Goszalez Infante (meaber of 2506 Brigade) @, &dolfe Gartolome Jimenez Aquiles 2. Eric Avian @eeber of 2506 Brigade) @. Alfrece Bulz & Befacl Torres (ueaber of 2506 Brigade) - SECRET ‘retina NF ee nnn nent einen ne tn en cen cout owe ee = waa { Fel] amt ot ee scaen | SUBJECT: MAS FERRER Prosecutiog, Miami, Florida BREFESENCE? Office of General Couesel Memorandus 67-0181 | | Jol -$266g tons merece ~cmatetimntramtesantia Ant Ame st  arnritarpas ames mare mT re vt tethte oo ets spt nity
14-00000 ith nk we i 4. Pablo Morejon-Figuercea (meaber of . " 2806. Brigade} so Hee d. Arturo Hayans-Alvarez . oo ke Hanuel Jose Leon~Fernandes (neuber ef 2806 Brigade) ~«- . os Franciaco Varona Varona-Sote BB. s@uug Rodriguez : . m.  Fmis Alberto Ulivera (member of | zs . 2806 Brigade) . ; ©, Carles lais Sete Borges (menber ef 2506 Brigade) . Le creation A! sitios eos te Oe G It ia believed that the trial of Masferrer or i any @f hia colleagues could damage Agency iaterest# in : - @@@ oF @11 of the following sectors: . ete ce z Ses See een Be Unfavorable publicity concerning . . @gemcy operations againet the Cuban target, oo "- . 1° motably maritime infiltration operationg “““" “~‘-**°""* eoee4) , baged in scuthern Plorida. ‘ b. The exposuré of current Agency = ~ @riuarily JMWAVE) agente, overational po facilities, covers and operations, dotably "~~~ ee? 2 theese in the maritime infiltration field. ° . ms ¢c. The creation of a climate which. . . “im the leng rus could lead to comtinuing | Gemege te Agency intereste and rhick would . ronder the execution of operations against © ~ Guba and certain other targets, especially the Caribbean countries, more difficult and more costly (by virtue of the necessity of creating new or more complex cover sechaniaus). ae tote e amtmamt es Ee 6. The appearance of certain individuals at the trial ‘eoald lead to the revelation of information concerming a wide wariety of operational matters—using the.term “eperational* im ite broadest sense. Of the personnel listed im the OGC ,Semorancis of 2 February 1867 (O0C €7-€161) Davie Cebece Wa Gapaoyed by the agency im agent status. Cabexn wag 8 key figure in the AMPAUHA operation, at one tise sa importaat eMWAVE operation. Cabeza'a brother is currently exployed by SMULVE; for some time it hag been plassed to termizate hime _«@¢ @m appropriate time. Cabeza is im @ positios of being able te reveal considerable information concerning certain. ramen 8 ee ae ee ~ 1 H : 2 : al * ‘ ” + i . ‘ oo nr anne PERRET OORETA AM Be PURER OYE AE EGRET $0 LOFT Ay sche Veber aD thee aa Set omantutth enmity BONS he Ata eteeeratp ay Sent nero mea PORRIDGE DpH ES OST AER ASR i TED ETAT BA pa REPAIR tice ptt t Lo e hoy . : . . te pds od : TS . ve . Te ot Py ere setemsPapnin pene ' mee ee . ate ae nate eee i -_ eo
14-00000 eae! oa : operational techniques and facilities employed by JEWAYE im the past, as well as the identity of a aumber of forner : ageates of the JMWAVE Station. Although, by extrapolation and br eabroidering on information and rumors circulating im the Cuban exile comeunity Cabeza probably could present ! @ pietare of JNYAVE activity which might appear eueitiag te the layman, it seens uBblikely that he has access to any Significant amount of information concerning sensitive ecerrent activities. While te the knowledgeable person, withia the Agency or withia the federal community im Miami, Cabeza‘s information te likely to be unimpreasive, there i ; eeens to be little doubt that he could--as he has done oa i nthe 5 & @& mumber of occasions during the past two years-—present * @ picture of JMWAVE activity which might intrigue the general public. It 1s impoasible to predict whether. Cabeca would present the Agency im a unfavorable light oy whether b® would chuose te concentrate his eriticies agaimat other federal ageacies, -- : . 7. <A number of the other persons. listed ia the veterence alse are in a position to make allegaticag concerming various Agency activities, including JWSAVE operations in the mariting.infiltration.and .propagaada meses e fields, aad Agency operations agsinat the Kaitias target. . 3¢ f@ impceaible te state how ach accurate information =, €o@peerming these topics ia poesesesé by -the group; er tea predict the elast which might be takes by them ta preseating their stories. in the opinion of JHVAYE, om the -besis ot: | ., $he faformation available to the Station, none of these individuals posseiees « significant amount of seasitive ~ mformation concerning current or important past sctivities, i. @ewever, ee ia the case of Cabena, the claing aade by tacse : individuale re Agemoy activities aight appesr impreagive te the general gublic, ewpectally if epiees with tidbitea ef | s @eeurate information, 'G. Attachment details the past relationship ef certain incividuals in the FBI report to the Ageney, sotably JMWAYE, Two of these individuals are curreatly @uploged by JMUAYE. Should certeia of the other indiviauale be @uamoned te toatify, they could present a certain amuunt ef information coaceratag pest prestices, persossel and facilities =ced by JMWAVE, . es meee 5 » - 2 ney to athena Seemed ed apa PENnrae netnt in wean canoe sees . + . j ’ yt * win, 1 Ciabet arh 6 mw . det Patol rae gt a : . ve we ~ : : » aa “ * ca . 1 6. Probably the greatest danger te the Agency lies in v4 the poesibiiity that the circle of tosticcay might be expanded { by the dofense through the subpoensing of persons who are aot i om the. list or mentioned in. the FBI report but who are kcows ec: ' “ "<¢@ the listed perscanel as being curreatly suployed by JMNAVE Pleat or ag having beon employed in the recergt past. Given the ww egal precedents established in other C8eeG, it appears SECRET
14-00000 aren ty ~h~ likely that these current employees (agents) of JMIAYE weel¢ have tc srevice trut «#% <otai ed amawere ia response to questioning im court. Such testiaony could cause major Gemege toe the curreat operstions, perecenel aad facilities @2 the JMUAYE Etation. Although 1¢ sppeers that a auaber ef facilities waich have net bees exposed to ageata (e@.¢., ¢he priacipal cover anit, JHOCEAN) would set be comproauised through the testinasy of curreat agents, there ia me doubt Ghat tee danger to JMUAVE activities, potably but not eueclugively to saritize tafiltration operations, would be Severe. Possibly sore damsgiag in the long rma .would be the ourfeciag of qaceatious concerning the “right” of the Agency to engage im “illegal” activities from U.S, @eil. Coaceivably the defense would present the pictaze of as @ftieial U.8. Govermment ageacy, the ierper tment of Jamtize, presecuting haplees Cubaa and Maitian euiies Ulegroes) for Goadseting activity of “the same type” as taat conducted by the dgeacy with the bieesing of tha U.6, Goversarat. af Smeginative defense couseel might eves go oo far as to sagene the U8, Custoua Service aud the Agency of conspiriag Ge “atop the competition” by-the exiles witm the activities eeneested by the Agency, ; 16, JWWAVE bLelievos that there {a ee queution that the Crial of the Masflerrer group would bring te tho gurface-~ig eeuthers Floriés sad ginevhere ia the U,8,-~-tae latent euricaity aad im sume caseg sateosity coacersing Ageasy epereticns eqaiest Cuba free teses ia the ULB. Waile the Flevids public ia geners) in pichly eyepetnetic towards the Ageasy with respest to its sctivities seaiaat the Castro vogine, there eve o saall sunter of highly vocal persons ee ] ould wee the trial revolations as the begia for a renewed attack against the “Javisible government” operatiag ia slorids, SWIAVE judges that i¢ would take wevy Little publicity to lead to the surfasisg of the JHOCUAN comples as the sacceseor te the “notorious Losith Techaicai Eaterprises, Inc.", The care whieh hag toes gives te tie establiaheest asd the consolidation @f the JUICEAM cover in not likely to avail againet a coscerted fevestigatios by gublicity media or agcresetvely sncepy _ private parties, Tsu, tae fact that JHOCEs ig located in G@ &76% téuiaiatered by the UOnivermity of Miami could lead to charges of Agsary “corruption of acea4tentc inetitutions,* The fect that the Csiveretty of Mics leadersnip would, sa i¢ Bae in the past, cooperate closely vith SHEAVE and tho Egoncy would aot erase the publici¢y,. na¢ ecscuivably could jead te enough preseure om the Univeraity that 1¢ iadeed would be forced to re-examine ite relationship to the U.8. Government eescerming the South Campus area, or ite relaticaship te SECRET, es re ae CO eememal er et Cera Lif ae mee