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SECRET © LL June 1962 CK = 070 - Chief, Task Force W Chief of Station, JMWAVE (AA. ret dai ao a 7 _ Pt agg oy ease de on 8 and 9 June 1962, dogel Inte Gulu Figueredo, aka "Marco Willtan", ‘A'12 817,916, vorm 7 _Octoder_1925,_it 1; Miami address: _efo Taabel Zapate Ibarra de Guiu (his vite) A109" (re ar) NB 22n RE 22nd Street, LoM:, Selephone FR 3-9778, was interviewed. : ip : 7 NG Ne iA WE Pe: a a Sub i Je hoe aks 8 Be It ig the intent of this dispatch to present: some measure ‘of ' the source's kmowledgeability in order to assist in outside debriefing. ‘Dhe source was-a captain in the rebel army from 1 January 1959. to 29 June 1960. During this period he was assigned as an aide to Enrique . @ulski, the Minister of Communications, and the source represented, ; moreorless, the military. ‘interests in this ministry. As @ former’ employee of the Cuban telephone company one of his missions’ was to run the telephone monitoring service. After leaving the army the source was the chief of the military section of the MRP, After Playa Giron, -. during the summer of 1961, source broke with Manolo Ray, the MRP chief, - and: Reinol Gonzalez, the MRP’ coordinator, over ideological differences, _ the source claiming that Ray was too far to the left. In this fractioning gf the MRP, the source pulled cutthe entire military section, and it since has been (operating as en independent group. 3,7 On. 15 May 1961, the source entered the Italian Embassy as a . "guest" and operated the group from within the Embassy. He claims close -eontact with the Italian Ambassador, and later in the conversation mentioned that the Ambassador brought the source's dog from Havana to the source's wife in Miami. On 7 May.1962, the source left the Embassy, went back to Havana, and later in the month got on a Spanish ship which tock him to Colombia. From Colombia he came to the United States and d/8-9-/ 3 aL 4 ra.
SECRET CK 070 we 11 Jun 62-5 4. The reason the ecurce went into the Italian Rebassy vas that he was arrested by Ramiro Valdez and Manuel Pineiro on the charge of having monitored telephone ‘calle of Fidel Castro and other officials _ of the Cuban Government.’ Source said thie was partially true, ‘as the. operatora at the monitoring’ site would listen to such conversations and. . . then tell. him of the contents. | Se -After:being released by G-2, the source went into the Sferra Escambray Mountains as @ guerrilla. He stayed for about 90 days, end ceme dowi in October of 1960 after Sinesio Walsh was killed. 6. Source gave the organization of the (MRP) nilitary section “which'he heads ss follows: &. The top command is known as Estado Mayor de Operaciones Militar (EMOM). It consiste of five people. Three are active military officers. They include one major (navy), .one captain, and one first lieutenant... One nan is @ retired officer of the rebel ‘army. The fitth person is the source. an - . b. Two elements subordinate to theEMOM are the Comando Aceion (CA) and Inteligencia-1 (I-1). a c. Underneath the staff atructure, a and b above, the organization _, io broken down into provineial units. Each province is directed by a. “Mondo” which are numbered from 1-6, corresponding to the six provinces of Cuba. Each province thereby being know as-Mando~l (M-1) to Mando-6 (M-6). Each Mando is divided into five Comando Estrategices (CE) and each CE is divided into five columnas. Each columa has 100-112 people, divided inte four companies. A company is made, up of four squads of eight men each. : . . a. The members of the CA are merged into the sub-paragraph ¢ . structure. It has been found, he said, that because a person is a mettber | ; of. the military as all people in the military section are, it'does not seem that he is necessarily qualified for comando or sabotage work. Therefore, the best have been selected and can be called for action. - ' However, the military section has very little ("casi nsda") arms or . explosives | 7.. Source said that in December 1961, and January 1962, the EMGM made an islandwide survey of the organization and on the basis of the aurvey calculates that about 7,000 men belong to the military section. _ Taking into. account: that personal and femily problems which might , preclude’ a man's taking action could come up, it is estimated that about 3,000-4,000, men could be counted upon, foe: f ad a / SECRET. f4 fAo- A
SECRET CK o7O * 11 Jun 62 8. ‘ Soaree. said that he lett a suitease behind in Cuba which contains “{ngormat ton which. he’ wishes ‘ta gat out of Cuba. In its contents is ‘information relating to military camps, artillery positions, mine fields, emergency military. highways, airfields, electric plants, redar systems, microwave, Red Offietal de Micronda. (ROcMI), and rocket installations... Tie emphasis of the contents, he said, is on the north coast of Cuba. He sadd that this suitcase is in close proximity to the Italien Embassy in Havana, ‘and that he hes hope that the Italian Ambassador or the Counsellor of Eubassy will be able to pick it up and bring it to the United States, If not, he can probably arrange to get it on the Spanish. 6hip which carried him into exile. 9. Source said he wants to obtain arms and explosives for his group. He gaid that contact in the Cubes mavy can help to get this stuff into Cuba. . 10. Source said that he has a Collins radio in Havana, and a W-T operator. He must get a radio on this side, he said, in order to commmicate. If this cennot be done, he has contact with pilots who can carry out information. ‘ll. Other information obtained fram the source wea as follows: a. Source identified the captain who is a member of the EMOM (see. Paragraph 6a) as a penetration of the Cuban army and he works in “Inspeceion", probably the army I.G. Scurce said that this officer reports that there are 13 missile sites (rempas) in Cuba. Nost of them are in Pinar del Rio but a few are in Orientes. ‘The missiles are mow as "“Vengadores Especiales” and are gaid-to have 4 range of 14,000 kilometers, but source said this is not certain. The missiles are said to be in a vertical position, and that the manning ané oneration of these sites ia separate from the army ani the militia. Missiles have a separate ccmmand, and the last information which the source received was that the command headquarters for the missile sites is housed in a house in the old Biltmore section of Havens. (Note: Scurce was turned over to military: debriefers for complete debriefing on this point.) The dateof this information, the latest dare, is approximately 12 December 1961, the . date the information was brought to him by the captain. Sop 2A GAS rl: Source said thet on | approximately 5 Hay 1962, he was informed vy a guidé from Las Villas that OsvaigchRaairez, the guerrilla chief, was killed by Castro's forces and that the guide saw Oswaldo dead. Source said that he had previously received a message from Osvaldo as it someone could dispatch a radio technician to kim. Source said he did “this, and that the guide was to take the radio technician into the mountains. The radio techaicien vas captured and is now in jail and held in Santa Clara. Source said that the guide told him that G-2 made a raid in Santa Clara and found a list of names of people working in a
CK O70 A SECRE® Sa ., LL Jim 62 . resistance movenent which had contact with Osvaldo. On the basis of this information and th “follow-through, & trsp was sprung. Ossaldo "vas. asked to Coie down frog the mountains to attend an incportant Pr meeting with -the resistance leaders , 4nd he-was then ambushed. Source ‘gaid that Castro learma: well “from Batiste and that Castro knows ~ Batista's big mistake was in not hunt ing down Castro and the other ' survivors of the Granms invasion. Consequéntly Castro throvs large a -masses of milith against che smallest of guerrilla groups. ss ._ 12. Source said he can supply personality information on the | a. 0. Dorticos n. Captain Juan Escalona {Aide - b. Fidel Castro. to Raul Castro) c. Raul. Castro Oo. Major Fernandes (Chief of d. Jian Almeida ’ Operations =an artillery sad @. Major Sergio det, Valle mortar expert who aidai Castro | f. Major Ramiro Vsides greatly at Playa Giron) . g- Enrique Otulsk? : p. Captain Zenon Casas h. ‘Osmani Clefuesos Q- Captain Lino Carreras i. Raul Curbelo r. Major Manuel Pineiro jd» The Santamaria trothers ‘8. Major "Chino" Migueredo - (Chief of G-2) k. Captain Guillermo Garcia . t. Major Aldo Santamaria (chier or 1. Armando Hart m. Lazaro Soltura (Csptain) Minas del Frio} ; a... Others aG 2 ARG 7 13. Source said thst “Fabio ‘eacalona, _on2 of the notorious ° ‘Bscalona family and a\ former empicyed of théesCuban telephone company» is in the United States ov Puerto tO Bins ‘Source said he” yersonally knovs that Fabio is a. unist "from deen toe within his guts" and that he left. Cuba, shortly after Puaye Giro. Riana 62 14. Source said thst valle he waa the aide to Otulski he, the the . source, was in charge of monitoring telephones, -His aides in this eission “were Lt. Gomez who is now is Jail and Sergio’Anchia who is now in Niaut a and who probably will work vith the, source in thig area. Source said that the monitoring office was the second floor of the telephone Company's. The monitoring section for the Anerican Embassy was special. It vas located in a backroom off the source's office, Source said he obtained -his instructions trom Fisal wastro and Ramiro Valdez. When a call was monitored, a report was mata in four copies. On¢ for Castro, one for the President, one for Ramiro Valdez and one ws kept in the tiles, SECRET
SECRET “ 15. Source said. that while he was monitoring the Ancrican Eubassy _he went to the‘house of Brown, the Counsellor of the Embassy, and informed | hin that this was belrig-done. He told Brown that the Embassy was tapped “cand that-certain residences, such o8 Colonel Nichols end other attaches, 26s Source: said that thie ‘monitor ing still continues. He ‘eaid: that dt “is now | ne. entirely by G-2 and Communists and that it ie ‘engineera, etc. of the telephone company who pass through CAC mov ‘no f the details. “In Batista’s time, he aaid, the monitoring - was done in the main office and a “jump” line was connected to the monitoring Office proper. Nowadays, the “jump” Line is put.on outeide ‘the office, and no one inside has any information on voich line is — tapped. The new plan, he-said, is to do the tapping from the various -telephone plants ("plantas") by tapping each exchange. He said that each moritor listens to ten taps and has three tape recorders which” =~ has been found to be a sufficient number. If another to needed, the’. - monitor is able, to uss a recorder belonging to another monitor. — a 17.. Source has general information on guerrilla training including ~, the training of forejgn, Lat ing rican guerrillas. He said that the . chief of training. de(Ma jor’. Al temaria and thétyone of the principal traning bases io Minas del Frio in the Sierra Maeatra Mountains. : 4 19060, the source attended a mecting with other members of the general. staff in which inyesions were discussed.. During this meeting Remiro Valdez said. that. gatewey for the guerrillas. in Latin America is the Panama/Colombia bokder in’ close proximity to the Andes Mountains and . then down the Andeq spine into Latin Americas’ | | ae |. 18. ‘The JMWAYE Station was notified and immediately took over the Source » o ee a nn ee Ty tae eee wa Page. _, Helson L. RAYNOCK = «1: PRELCASERG Cue CER beng FAS Cub