104-10326-10099 SECRET ? 93-1832904 SENSIND: on — = = = ee Oe / /  DISSEM PER SOP #104. SECRET PRP: ) , oS Ff os CONF : CIC/LA INFO: CIDORECORD, erc/iIrc, CTC/TA, FBIOUT, MDSX, NHTC/LA, ODPD, FILE, c/cic, C/atc, C/LA/RBS, C/PCS, cic/oG, CTC/TRG, cTc/TRGPSB, DC/LA/RBS, LA/AGCN-2, LA/CCG-2, LA/MCGMXB-2, pes/Ch, PcSs/ID, Is ECR ET NOFORN NOCONTRACT 2005514 CIA/DDO 900219 TO: PRIORITY FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. ATTN: [| CHIEF OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM UNIT WARNING NOTICE . INTELLIGENCE SOURCES OR METHODS INVOLVED - NOFORN NOCONTRACT FROM: CIC/LA INFO LA/CCG CIR 316/01013-93 SUBJECT: ANTI-CASTRO MOVEMENT "PARTIDO UNIDAD NACIONAL DEMOCRATICO" REF: NONE 1. THIS AGENCY IS FORWARDING TRACES ON DR. CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES Y DE QUESADA AND OTHER CUBAN IMMIGRANTS INVOLVED WITH THE "PARTIDO UNIDAD NACIONAL DEMOCRATICO" (PUND), AS PROMISED AT THE 16 MARCH 1993 MEETING WITH THE DIRECTOR OF CUBAN AFFAIRS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND OFFICERS FROM YOUR BUREAU. 2. AS REPORTED AT THE 16 MARCH MEETING, THIS AGENCY HAS NO CONNECTION WITH PUND, AND HAS NEVER PROVIDED THEM WITH ANY SUPPORT OR ENCOURAGEMENT. THIS AGENCY'S BRIEF ASSOCIATION WITH MANUEL DE CESPEDES BEGAN IN MARCH 1990 WHEN HE SOUGHT US OUT AND WHO, AFTER MISREPRESENTING HIMSELF AT THE START, IN 1991 ACKNOWLEDGED HIS PUND lcoNNECTIONS AND SOLICITED THIS AGENCY'S SUPPORT. HE WAS TURNED DOWN COLD AND THE CONTACT WAS DROPPED. 3. CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES Y DE QUESADA, BORN 08 DECEMBER 1945 IN HAVANA, CUBA, IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR SPECIALIZING IN GERIATRICS. aE WAS TRAINED IN SPAIN AND tS NOW OWNER-DIRECTOR OF THE "CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES CENTER", A MEDICAL CLINIC IN MIAMI. DR. DE CESPEDES MAKES NO BONES ABOUT HIS HIGH POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS IN A POST-CASTRO GOVERNMENT IN CUBA. HE CLAIMS THAT HIS FATHER’S WWEADERSHIP IN CUBA HAS PREPARED HIM WELL FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL GAREER . ESPEDES CLAIMED TO HAVE. ORGANIZED PUND (THE / A — SECRET
13-00000 SECRET MHPNO:) 93-1832904 PAGE: 2 SENSIND: Jp CESPEDES FURTHER CLAIMED THAT HE AND GONZALEZ ESSENTIALLY CONTROL ~ | THE-PARIEE,-ATHOUGHCHERE ARE OCCASTONAl: DIPFERENGES TOTO Ne BETWEEN THE TWO. DE CESPEDES DESCRIBED GONZALEZ AS "ONE WHO FOUGHT th THE SIERRA MAESTRAS", AND WHO HAD BREN A CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS =NTHER. DE CESPEDES WAS THE “DELEGATE " OF THE PARTY, AND GONZALEZ wals THE "MILITARY ADVISOR". THE SECRETARY OF THE PUND WAS ALFREDO FERNANDEZ GAMEZ. THE TWO SUBDIRECTORS WERE AMANCTO ABELAIRAS AND RAMON PUIG. 5, SERGIO FRANCISCO GONZALEZ ROSQUETE WAS BORN ON)24 JULY 1938 IN CAMAGUEY, CUBA. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON GONZALEZ HAS BEEN EXTRACTED FROM A REPORT BY A SOURCE OF UNKNOWN RELIABILITY. GONZALEZ JOINED THE CASTRO FORCES IN 1958 AND FOUGHT WITH THEM FOR ONE YEAR. IN 1959 HE BECAME A PILOT IN THE CUBAN AIR FORCE. ON 4 NOVEMBER 1960 GONZALEZ DESERTED THE AIR FORCE AND JOINED Tye! 30TH OF NOVEMBER GROUP (MRTN), AN ANTI-CASTRO GROUP. HE WAS ARRESTED ON 6 FEBRUARY 1961 FOR ANTI-REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES AND WAS SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON. WHILE ON PAROLE FROM CLEGO DE AVILA (ON ai DECEMBER 1968, GONZALEZ AND NINE OTHERS ESCAPED IN A 20 FOOT SAILBOAT FROM MORON, CAMAGUEY. GONZALEZ AND HIS COMPANIONS WERE RESCUED BY THE U.S. COAST GUARD AND TAKEN TO MIAMI. GONZALEZ LEFT WIFE BEHIND IN CUBA; SHE WAS IN THE LAST MONTHS OF A PREGNANCY AT] TIME. IN 1969 GONZALEZ WAS IDENTIFIED AS A COORDINATOR THE THE 6. ACCORDING TO A SOURCE OF -UNKNOWN RELIABILITY, ALFREDO RUPERTO FERNANDEZ GAMEZ WAS EMPLOYED AT THE HAVANA CUSTOMS OFFICE IN MEXICO CITY IN APRIL 1960. THERE IS NO FURTHER INFORMATION ON HIM. 7. DMANCIO ABELAIRAS MAY BE IDENTICAL WITH AMANCIO JESUS IABELATRAS , BORN 18 NOVEMBER 1935. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION DATED 2961, ABELAIRAS WAS PROCESSED BY THIS AGENCY FOR POSSIBLE USE IN PARAMILITARY RELATED ACTIVITIES. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO INDICATE THAL HE WAS EVER UTILIZED IN ANY CAPACITY BY THE AGENCY. THE FILE SUGGESTS , HOWEVER, THT HE MAY HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR TRAINING AND THAT SHORTY APTERWARDS HE MAY HAVE BEEN DETERMINED TO BE MENTALLY UNEIT TO CONTINUE SUCH TRAINING. YOU ARE ALSO REFERRED TO THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION FOR POSSIBLE INFORMATION CONCERNING ABELAIRAS . 8. RAMON PUIG MAY BE IDENTICAL WITH VICTOR RAMON PUIG, JR., BORN 20 AUGUST 1938 IN HAVANA, CUBA. ALL THE INFORMATION THIS AGENCY LAS ON VICTOR RAMON PUIG IS 1960 INFORMATION FROM YOUR BUREAU. PUIG WAS ADMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES AT MAIMI, FLORIDA, ON 22 DECEMBER 1945. FROM 1945 TO 1955 HE MADE NUMBEROUS TRIPS TO CUBA AND FROM 1955-1957 HE RESIDED IN CUBA. ON 6 JANUARY 1958 HE WAS AGAIN AN APPLICANT FOR ADMISSION AS A PERMANENT RESIDENT. HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES AT MIAMI, FLORIDA AS A PERMANENT RESIDENT (0-1 CLASSIFICATION ON 6 JANUARY 1958. ie eal 9. IN FEBRUARY 1993 YOUR MIAMI FIELD OFFICE MET WITH OUR LA/MIAMI STATION ON THE PUND AND THE NAMES FRANK STURGIS, GONZALEZ OF PARA 2 SBSVE-—JUSTO-RBGALADO7-MODESTO-ALVAREZ;AND TONY GARCIA WORE MENTIONED. THE FOLLOWING IS THE INFORMATION OUR FILES CONTAIN ON THESE NAMES. ee ~~ SECRET
13-00000° MHPNO: 93-1832904 10. FRANK STURGIS (AKA FRANK FIORINI) IS FRANK ANTHONY STURGIS, BORN 09 DECEMBER 1924 IN NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, AN AMERICAN MERCENARY AND SOLDIER OF FORTUNE LONG INVOLVED IN ANTI-CASTRO AND CUBAN EXILE ACTIVITIES AND CONVICTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WATERGATE BREAK-IN. OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS STURGIS HAS CLAIMED A CIA RELATIONSHIP AS lu] IN EMPLOYEE OR AGENT BUT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY SUCH RELATIONSHIP . MIDILOTT STURGIS WAS PROMOTING A J000” MAN“ CURBN-EXTLE-GROUR_TO EE SENT TO ANGOLA TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN TIiS-EFFORTS? IN NOVEMBER 1977 HE WAS ARRESTED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO COERCE A U.S. GOVERNMENT WITNESS FOR GIVING CONGRESSTONAL *INVESTIGATORS DETAILS ABOUT STURGIS’ ALLEGED RELATIONSHIP WITH<LEE> * <HARVEY : OSWALD . > 11. JUSTO RECALADO=MAY=BE+ I DENT LCAL—WEA-JUSTO—~GRACTLTANO REGALADOT—~THE-ONLY—INEORMATION PRIS AGENCY HAS ON GRACILIANO REGALADO COMES FROM YOUR BUREAU IN WHICH YOU REPORT THAT "ON MARCH 5, 1980 JUSTO GRACILIANO REGALADO WAS INTERVIEWED CONCERNING HOS STATUS AS AN EX~POLITICAL PRISONER FROM CUBA. GRACILIANO WAS BORN AUGUST 12, 1945 IN SANCTI SPIRITUS, CUBA. GRACILIANO WAS IMPRISONED IN CUBA FROM AUGUST 10, 1962 UNTIL JUNE 1979. GRACILIANO ENTERED THE UNITED STATES ON AUGUST 29, 1979 AND HAS INS NUMBER Az3 344 543." 12. YOUR BUREAU FURTHER REPORTED THAT GRACILIANO IDENTIFIED ONE MODESTO ALVAREZ AS A POLITICAL PRISONER WHO ALLEGEDLY WAS A CUBAN STATE SECURITY INFORMER DURING HIS IMPRISONMENT. YOUR REPORT CONTINUES THAT MODESTO ALVAREZ WAS ALLEGEDLY ARRESTED DURING 1967 IN CUBA FOR AN ABORTIVE ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST FIDEL CASTRO. GRACTLIANO MET ALVAREZ IN LA CABANA PRISON DURING 1967 AND IN PINAR DEL RIO PRISON DURING 1971-1978. ALVAREZ WAS SEEN BY FELLOW INMATES PROVIDING PRISON OFFICIALS WITH WRITTEN MESSAGES AND INFORMATION. 13. I? WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY "TONY GARCIA" WITHOUT MORE BIO DATA. CLASSIFIED BY SIGNER. DECL OADR DRV [___s«NOFORN NOCONTRACT . > PELE: 201-1474629, 201-0242256. OREG_CICALA _-3.93.8.0)_;AUTH: _CLLA/CCG_] |, ~cooRD. C/CIC/LA BEL: C/PCS/LCG/ID INDEX: ALL _| NAMES. CL BY.0.6L0541-7. END OF MESSAGE SECRET SECRET