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BPS Chief, Special Affairs Staff _MICROFILMED INFO ma ol j ONLY QUALIFIED chief of Station, smave OKC Loc. micno-set SSE NO-ENDEXING “REQUIRED: Wacct TYPIC/Operational “(© Progress Report AMTRUNK Team, Period 1-30 september 11963 B ACT TON REQUIRED - REFERENCES Action Required: Please card asterisked names in attachments. Fenny pul es i 1. . OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY TOHSHAES: Peed Project activity during the first eight dayS%f 3 _ her can only be described as hectic. As September began, » AMTRUNK-9, who had been exfiltrated on 23 August, was being | “gushed through tradecraft and FI training, being further de- ) ‘briefed and briefed, and trained in S/W and OWVL in preparation for his re-infiltration on 9 September. At the same time, com- plications arose over AMTRUNK~9's POA when his first LCFLUTTER turned out inconclusively and when it was. discovered that ODIBEX had laid prior claim to his services... The difficulty over the LCFLUTTER was straightened out following a second LCFLUTTER test at which time the results were much clearer to read and indicated no deception. ODIBEX relinquished all claim to AMTRUNK-9 after the Station had granted an interview to an ODIBEX case officer ee | with AMTRUNK-9 in order that A-~9 could be debriefed on his knowl~ = — edge of AMFAUNA~3's activities. At the same time KUBARK offered to assist ODIBEX by exfiltrating AMFAUNA~3 on the same operation during which AMTRUNK-9 would be infiltrated. In the’midst. of the rush to train and hold operational dis+ cussions with AMTRUNK~9, a newspaper article on changing trends among high level personnel within the AMTHUG-1. government written by AMCAPE~] appeared in a major daily newspaper.  AMCAPE~1 re- portedly told a high level ODYOKE official that AMICE-~27, the AMTRUNK team leader, was the source of his information... The de- briefing of AMICE-27 had produced information at considerable variance to that in AMCAPE-~1's article. Confronted with the ar- ticle, AMICE-27 admitted talking to AMCAPE~1 but denied that most of the information in the article was based. on dything which ae AMICE-27 had said. As this article was creating considerable = 00. - furor in ZRMETAL, Irving: PEGGINS escorted AMICE-~27 on 5 Septem- —~ ee ax} ber to ZRMETAL for gurther debriefings@nd operational discussions. — ap Bae . Attachments: Biko s - BS 38. DATE TYPED DATE DISPATCHED” A through E h/w  ~—_ 12 Oct 63. | oer 18 1963 Distribution: : 3°= C/SAS w/ tea. hE Se 4 ; os DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER (0. 2357 < mes Pl eA Ae UFGA-11829 z wen ’ ' 2 4 aby - : =ex1 | HEADQUARTERS FILE NUMBER tenn sinus! spielen RAR aeereigiegs * SG ga 8 NI i eS Ca
t “CONTINUATION OF . “* “DISPATCH . ST re s Oo} £ * ¥ 5-8 58a USE PREVIOUS EDITION. S EC HW. 53320: -DocTd:32373616..Page 4 CLASSIFICATION .. DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER UFGA-11829. Discussions with Headquarters personnel were held on 5 and 6 September, during which AMICE~27 continued to stick to exactly the same story which he had given during his JMWAVE debrief- ings. These discussions also covered the future direction and scope of the AMTRUNK project. No concrete meeting of ~~ minds between KUBARK officers, and AMICE-27 was obtained dur- | ing these two days. It was agreed that the discussions would continue in the JMWAVE area. sa “et On‘late 6 September, AMI€R-27 proceeded alone to New As York City to contact RILLO Gomez, former coman~ /P, dante in. the Rebel Army and personal phySician of AMTHUG-1, | to ask him to come to the JMWAVE area for discussions with _ AMTRUNK~9 and KUBARK officers on the general AMTRUNK concept. — - At the same time, PEGGINS and Willard R. NAUMAN from Head- quarters returned to the WAVE area. On 7 September AMICE~27 accompanied by TRILLO arrived in that area. Discussions con- tinued in the safehouse during 7 and 8 September. At the same time, preparations were going forward to infiltrate AMTRUNK~9 and to exfiltrate AMFAUNA-1,~-3 and~34, AMICE-14 was to be acting team leader for this operation, ac~ companied by the two team guides, AMTRUNK~7 and-8. Late on 8. September AMICE-~27 escorted TRILLO to the airport for his return to New. York... Several hours later the infiltration team consisting of AMICE-14, AMTRUNK-~7, -8 and ~9 were loaded on board the M/V Neptune for their infiltration scheduled for the following evening, 9 September. The infiltration of : AMTRUNK-9 and the exfiltration of four AMFAUNAs (AMFAUNA-~13 was : included in the exfiltration party at the last moment) went. off very smoothly. Attached herewith as Attachment A is AMICE-—14's - log.of this operation. . Due to the fact that the infiltration area was up because of an exile refugee infil in the same area, AMICE-~14 decided to clear the area one night earlier than scheduled. He therefore headed straight for Marathon, arriving the following morning within one mile of that town. At this point he had the misfortune to run out of gas, to be picked up by the Coast Guard, and to be towed into the town dock where the boat was greeted by police, newspaper photographers and tourists. This created consi-~ derable stir but the team was eventually picked up from local authorities by the case officer without any team identities becoming known. Through liaison with two local newspapers, all photographs showing identifiable team member faces were suppressed and obtained for Station files. The rather spectacular nature of the AMTRUNK re-entry at Marathon some~ what obscured the precise, professional manner in which the team: had carried out its assigned task during the entire mission, including the feat of sailing a 16" Boston Whaler with seven persons aboard across some 120 miles of ocean, During the latter half of the reporting period consi- derable discussion continued between the case officers and . AMICE-27 as to the future direction of the operation. AMICE-27 — : continued to_hold out for very grandiose schemes? Ip essence che wanted carte blanche to recruit more infil-exfil agents, |» to organize: an amorphous Rebel Army group in exile, to re- | eruit, train and dispatch PM teams for resistance and sabotage | on the inside, to establish a commando unit on the outside, ~~) and to run a propaganda program beamed from PBPRIME into Cuba. At one point in these discussions the COS, JMWAVE, was - introduced to AMICE~27 and laid out the general parameters as to the Station's interest in ANICE-27's ideas. pe theend again to a manaeéble aine and were proceeding to spot and recruit two Candidates for the next AMTRUNK infiltration and to work out a propaganda program to be handled by the Station's ig ae ; SSIFICATION —— , ‘