L ew ve FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59) C ‘S DECLASSIFIED BY Sof - Sih (ia eH Oat . & -G = q¢ - were té . Classified by Character: 1.- ONI, Miami (RM) 2 - Customs (RM) .(1 - Miami) ; l - G-2,: Ft. McPherson, Ga. (RM) (1 - Region 1 - OSI, Robins AFB, Ga. (RM) II) Copytoh - U. S. Border Patrol, Miami (ra) 1 - U. S. Coast mard, Miami (RM) 1 - INS, Miami (RM) 1 = CIA, ‘Miami (RM) | 1- FAA, Miami (RM) | Report of: -ROBERT JAMES DWYER Office: "MIAMI, RIDA | JUN. 2 2.1964 . . ») | Field Office File # 105-1742 Bureau File #: 109-584 i? | Tile: ANTI-FIDEL CASTRO ACTIVITIES © yf ) AT FF) | 1 726) | | Synopsis: . was no indication Plan Omega would be put into effect in ;? > . F V a o ‘ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BURE. F INVESTIGATION SECR. Dept. of State, (Cuban a Miami (RM) INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA Dectassify on: woot In 5/63, MANUEL RAY RIVERO, head of Junta Revolucionaria’ Cubana (JURE) , publicly promised to be in Cuba: by 5/20/64. As May, 1964, approached, JURE issued more press releases. — ‘ | U. S. press and wire services watched for military action fe against Cuba. Cuban armed forces were alerted. On 6/1/64, RAY and 7 others were captured by a British destroyer — | at Anguila Key, Bahamas. These 8 persons were fined: $14.00 each and released by the British. RAY's group - included one girl and two American newsmen. On 5/13/64, Movimiento. Recuperacion Revolucionario (MRR) made a naval attack against a sugar mill at Puerto Pilon, Oriente Province, faba. MRR claimed to have destroyed 70,000 bags -of sugar. / In 4/64, the military Plan Omega of Second National Front of the Escambray group (SNFE), was to be | implemented and coordinated with JURE: In 5/64, there — i | immediate future. .Comandos L (C~L) organization is inactive in the New York City area. On 5/12/64, a 25" C-L boat containing arms and ammunition exploded in the Florida Keys.(_On 6/3/64, C-L leader told an NBC newsman that in about two months a mission would be made against Cuba, _ C-L offered to sell NBC the moving pictures to be taken. ' During 2 weeks in 'May, 1964, the Movimiento Insurreciona CIA F HAS ? NO 2 ue TECTION TO Ce 1 M Amey: Excluded Yfrom\automatic down m GH A! “3 AND/OR, grading and/detlassification "LAC “Cia INFORMATION IN V THIS Docu KP 34G-9¢ © | This document contatns neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to | ) your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. IA-S¥Y_- 347Gb a NW 45769 DociId:32327396 Page 4
- " Los-1742 | a | Step Again, press and wire services speculated as what type of action would occur. JURE, Second National Front of the Escambray (SNFE), and the Movimiento Recuperacion. . Revolucionario (MRR) were the leading anti-CASTRO orga tions expected by Cuban exiles to start a program of com raids against. Cuba. A number of newsmen from radio. and televisio works were standing by in Miami during May, 1964. The was a great amount of expectation and speculation by exiles. As May 20th approached, newsmen and Cuban exi monitored Radio Havana for the first news of RAY's off | against Cuba. ; On May 20, 1964, CISNEROS issued a press rel stating that a new offensive was beginning on Cuban so JURE was satisfied with the progress, and everything w going fine. | On May 31, 1964, CISNEROS admitted to the pr did not know the whereabouts of RAY, and that things w not going well, MM T-1 advised there was considerable specul as to the whereabouts of RAY. The majority of Cuban e felt let down and said that RAY had failed. Many exil Speculated RAY was in Cuba reorganizing the Cuban unde Other exiles guessed that RAY was somewhere in the Car or Central America (i WL :, MANUEL RAY RIVERO Captured On June 5, 1964, ambieit confidential source abroad, ait advised t on June 1, 1964)%ight persons were picked up _ by the British destroyer " "at Anguila Key, Bahamas. This group was in a twenty-five-foot boat, had a quantity of arms (ini ammunition, and’ was /taken to Nassauby British authorities. im tT. 2]aai d-that—these gight|persons were as follows: Se M4) 104-544-397 & \ NW 45769 DociId:32327396 Page 5 a a ee LL
MM 105-1742 a te Is RRELL; coh FLAVT€ EZ; var gene - ARMAN. STRA; a” , td NF MIRTA BORRAS; — ANDREW ST. .GEORGE \ THOMAS ZEON —_— RRAS as a twenty-B. PPROX. 440. in Miami. MM T-1 said that AND . GEORGE is a free- lance writer and photographer>“and THOMAS DUNKIN was formerly a reporter for the "Glades Democrat" newspaper, Moorehaven, Florida, and is now a free-lance writer. MM T-1 stated that both ST. GEORGE and DUNKIN have donated money to Cuban exile groups in the past, . accompanied these groups on raids against Cuba, and have} . sold the stories to leading magazines and press services A\ 2 “MM T-1 identified MIRTA {ferro Cuban-girl frequentl¥ see On June 7, 1964, MIRTA BORRAS, in a press inte view, Stated she graduated from Miami’ Senior High School, Miam Florida, and is the foster daughter of ROGELIO CISNEROS, She stated she was in the Caribbean as a radio. operator with RAY, She claimed that RAY's attempt to enter Cuba by May 20th was foiled by a Cuban patrol boat. Later, and the group put into Anguila Key to repair a faulty boa engine. When RAY and his group spotted the British destroyer "Decoy," they dumped some of the. equipment on. the key. RAY and two others stayed on this key to hide the equipment. The others left in the small boat to avoi capture. Later, they were all captured and taken to Nassau aboard the British destroyer. They were.each fined $14.00 and released. . MM T-1 stated that bitter Cuban exiles made incisive jokes about an infiltration team which’ consiste . : of a Cuban political leader, four infiltrators, a beautiful twenty~year-old secretary, and two American newspapermen (4) | Factionalism ) A On June 4, 1964, ALBE T0/SUNE, Miama, advised /that © Fife he is the head of Movimiento fnsurrecional Libertad (MIW). . This organization, and about a dozen other small indépendent ‘anti-CASTRO organizations in Miami have united with JU A-SY— 3A NW 45769 DociId:32327396 Page 6