180-410104-10395 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER: RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : vot BW 50955 DBocld: 32760837 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information HSCA 180-10104-10395 NUMBERED FILES. 012919 Document Information HSCA FONZL GARTON GUSTAUSON, TROY. 07/27/1976 5 ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES. | CIA. RAY, MANUEL. LEADS & INFORMATION. GODAY, JOGGUIN, MEMORANDUM. Unclassified 1A Redact 02/18/1997 Box 227. Page 1 Date: 10/2/201
TO: Troy Gustavson FROM: . Gaeton Fonzi 1 spent most of my time in Puerto Rico last labyrinthian suburbs of San Juan Cin.the sothheast suburb of, fLarolti Oecarbe: roy Ginn hy “Palm Beach he struck looking for ina) and Ma ‘moFas a former sunk into alcoholism, but a guy who pseudo-int elliqence contact. free he has since recalled the nama of fancina for “hobby” activity he came to as a result of hi classy military background (he was ; uncle was top brass who had as ship namad reasons | decided to check in with Gadoy while in Puerto Rico to confirm my imorassion abdbhbt @oas a Navy off ell and, The FLL. Hunt nad proviousty told ma he met in Maw Yark ’ WW 50955 Docld: 32260637 Page 2 weekend cruising Leopoldo Cainas ef Rodrigues nue more “than. a various agencies Ss social standine i after him):. Gne of also. to ask hin representative a and cer himsstf and his The <0 was if H
Godoy, for what it's worth, seems to be a member of Puerto Rico's: swinging social set. He's head of The group division of New England Life, has a ptush office and walls covered with commendations. memorabilia and photos of himself and friends Camong them. Hollywood writer Bud ("What Makes Sammy Run” ‘) Schulberg. Godoy himself I6oks- Jike som ething: out of Hollywood: tall5.iéan,.squere- jawed. handsome, was. rejected. ) hen sketch but it rang no bells with hin, shoved Godoy The Bl ‘23 i is i mantioned no names but did tel} his thet if was an american who.- wi n aS had been in contact th Veciana over the years. He exnressed great surorise that Veclana fad been tn touch with an American bot. paranoia, | detected a touch of frony in his grin +. (f.e., was he himself assianed to report on vity?), Ha told mea he had heard that Veciana had In some kind of trouble and had heen-in jail. 3 d to do with narcotics, He said, “! don't believe it. . Yeclana waa the straichtest, absolutely trustworthy HW 509455 Doctd: 32260837 Page a
BW 450955 refuse cowE th mene. ‘conne ection. 3 and honest person | ever met. | would trust him explic itty. Vectana had told me that he thought that Godoy had worked for the Rockefeller Foundation at one time. Godoy said no, he hadn't, but he had appl turned down because the recommended by Dick Goo vel = awh by. theswa 6 was. cection. 1 2 “ SOT EEaE- Second National Front o Flying in that night a the ollot was Fiorini.) As smooth, charming and An enaineer In orivate cuy who. struck me ag n an intellectual | ¥ hores ni Bocld: 322760837 | Page 4 ied for a job there once. He was no opening, re dwin, Yas whom he ed. to. Setigh aettotes they. thought. ‘came- “Ther {prob lems. “ppartment.ot| escent at. “tha® gtroduced. Syst neie both was but he had been had gotten to Know ven’. ‘2 juste a “thes from. Cubans. .. mnostly.at- odistripution eB Fepresenaati ves ‘6mbassy.-lesntk was” f Fscambray. eS m-26 laaded canable of 1. oh? my oractice, Ras “£ MAT OF et kg Ft indiviguail. with intrigue told Lesnik: weapons for SNFE. | Jas 1 “suspected Godoy of Manuel Pay. soft~-sneken rationality, a: ereatly imoressed
Over a four-hour conversation with Ray, |! covered a wide range of specific details regarding any possible know ledge he might have had about even the remote links watwhich we're interested, including Lobo, Lykes, Kail, Trafficante, training camps and Castro assassination attempts. Unfortunately, following the Ray of Pigs, Ray's activities appear fo have been not too involved: Fanthe-operational-levet , concerning himsel? ih sceobs from wt : clalte : dys : ame. .20or ea it aOdto - s claiming “that. ae :. : 2d OOM the yt the Fe I acent intelligence nformant — VES ¢ sto dass eour: “view: Sof Godoy. Pelstionship it Sopeyeclatee ; pow bth lay station: ein band hisessistant doesn't fit the: Bishop- ‘descript ‘Ton 5 “That oy famty 19 iihat ithe ean: said ha was. Sow Fh” SRE gevSPamonT Wy speci fieahty cemenber, “that “the-d ya sabde “OTA her “what Ray recalls specifically wa that: “the” Feat lous Co aben® very much - about the details of speci fic operations, contact ‘Sor what was going on inside Cuba; Instead, he was more’ interested in talking with Ray about his political philosophy. Ray says he talked with him for about. two hours and then never saw him again. | Pay doesn't specifically reca | any front. operating out of the 2 | ° American Rank Gulilding,but wonders whether or not RECE B18... La sawhere in my files | have some background on RECE and will [7 ehock It, but of # the ton of my head ft was Orlando Rasch'’s.. us ation. Coincidentbaty. when | ment tioned Victor Paneaue i Pay. he said he knew him in the undereround in ¢ Cuba but later Pay found that Panenuc had become very close to Ressh. be slanifticant since Manedue was the co-founder of STurais*s BW 50955 Bocld: 322760837 Page 45
International anti-Communist Brigade of No Mame Kay and was also amona the Cuban's picked up on the way to the Ruddbtiph Davis-Gus}¥aSarre. New Orleans trainina camp. Ray feels that the CIA, in a plan perhaps masterminded by SO Howard Hunt (whose book "Give Us This Day". he says is full oe of “lies,” the reason for many of which he does not understand), - deliberately conspire ed to. _break.up the MRP. The MRP, says 7 Re EE ; halor: Bay. of Pigs=type ope eration: Ife. -Such. operas wth. thei solnts of “the is in the: appearance of: as #00. big: to~ resist. “that Bobert Mow Fr ow ‘and others: are now beginning: that. Qveration 40. for: whatever. name” they now, : Cr antlon, squad) ; ; : . ante oortatnally put: Subet ut with, the CLA was “EL Paso fobreno, in Soain. — Cubela-suggested to oo wee ce hii the idea of using a high-powered telescopic ritle to kill © a Castro and before he couid hack out of the idea, whichhhe immediately besan to have seoond thoughts ahout, Rebreno pushed him into if. ae “ord leaked out, says Rav, when Artime told his tnner circle of MRR men the olan. Gne of them, it later was revealed, vas a Castro G2 agent. CALL of the ahave is from rouch sores, but | tanad most of The Latervieyw and 1'£ any sroecific areas ased further develop chock back on tho .tanes.) ‘HW 50955 Docld:32260837 Page 6