AGENCY RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER AGENCY ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM Peleased under the John Kennedy CIA Wssassination Records wee ollection act of 1992 80T01357A AGENCY INFORMATION (44 USC 2107 Note). ases#: NW 53294 Date: 6-15-2017 DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA BRANDT CONTACT REPORT 11/15/1960 9 AMPARO PAPER UNCLASSIFIED 1A 1B RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 07/19/93 JFK34 : F18 1993.07.19.18:07:08:710270 COMMENTS [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10102-10090 WW 53294 Docld:32356641 Page 1
ie nye at at en aie ete ey vette eee grag ‘ HW 53294 Dockd:32356641- Page 2. ’ r BAAD November 15/60 On August 5/60, at 7 a. oTey Brand made contact with Emilio Rodriguez. Brand told =.R. that he wanted to see Anoaro (Plinio's wife), in order to dabrie? her on the actual situation of OA's groups. That same afternoon Zrand saw Amparo. Amparo informed Brand of all the arrests that had taken place after Plini o's escape from El Escambray. In regard to OA's groups in Havana, Amparo told. Erand that Efren Rodriguez, member of the Executive Commitee of the OA,was in a safe house in Havana,. and was the man who. could brief Brand on QA's situation. On August 6/60, Brand saw Efren Rodriguez. fren informed Brand that, on account of Abay and Penela's asylum at the Embassy of Brasil, contacts had been lost with the action groups of OA. Efren was completely out of money. Erand gav him $130.00 and instructed him to establish contact with Oa'3 action groups. £2: agreed to do this. Brand had.to remain in his safe house for the next ten days, becaugs no elus or moustaches had been sent to him, and he had no materials for his disguise. Meanwhile, Plinio nad arrived to Havana, and had established contact with Zfren and other’ members of the underground. Emilio Rodrizuez gave Brand a man to be used as a driver or ag a cut-out. This man is named Montes. After receiving the disguise materials, Brand establi contact with Jesus Izlesias, former member of Triple A, and Brand's fellow cons = ‘for many years. iglesias owned a 50 ft. yacht. Brand asked Iglesia's help to us his yacht to smugzle weapons into Cuba. Iglesias was in very low spirits. He sa that it was useless for the cubansa to fignt Fidel, since Fide 1 had a powerful 6 from the Soviet Union, and that unless the UeSe decided 46 do something about i our efforts were doomed to failure. In short, Iglesias refused to help. Next, Brand established contact with Cesar Lancis Bravo. Cesar agraed t Brand instructed Cesar to start lookinz for D.Zs. and L.Zs. Besides, Cesar wa tart organizing laborers in the different Unions, and to try to gather informa from all of them. Cesar also volunteered to make contacts with volicemen in the patrol cars, in order to*find out the codes they were using in their radio he? 2O a 3 . : : ; . | . communications. He-also promised to start a search for safes houses and store ho and to start a: Fidel through the members of the Sindicato Gastronomica. that first meetinz, Brand gave Cesgrione thousand pesos, to bs used for expense . » are : xt, Brand mad@ contact with Benito Fernandez. Benito said that he was eager helo and that all of us had to give our best to overcome our country's situatio senito offered nis efforts to try fo. find D.Zs L.2Zs. Besides, he volunteer to do some recruiting. Benito informe ed Brand d an action groua of aco fifteen men, already armed. . . Contact was made with Dr. Helio } Nerdo Baaz- Nardo informed Brand: that he he already been aproached by veople fron HAR and By Lomberto Diaz 2 actLng the la as representative Prom Tony Varona's: zroup: Nardo had refused to work with th ed Nardo to taks care of the Province of Pinar del Rio as a leader o + sk arround group, of. which he wis zoing to be one of the leaders. Nardo az Le fo Brand wes -and oromised to start lookiag for D.Zs. and L.Zs.. and alse promiasd re of the recruiting of peopsjin the Province of Pinar del Rio. He me ieutenent in the rebel army, and wno ha : or nad a friend who nad seen al rea} j ause of the communist ndencies of the Jo¥ernment.» He told Era b tion cec te > 3 ex-lieutenent could decome'a valuasls asget if won to our side. Ha 5% oiling to try to bring this man to talk with Srand. Srand gave Nardo fivs OF 2kDeNns 230 4
| i HW 53294 at the first meeting with Senito Fernandez, 3 University student, and son of Jesus Izlesiasz. i 34 Helson to s making some recruitings at the University. Brand also instructed Nelson Islesi to make the necessary arrangements so Srand could have a meeting with Joss Fer Planas and Eddy Crews, members of the Catholic Youth, students at the Universi Havana and members ot MRR (Artime's faction). Brand gave Nelson ons hundred os for expenses. A week after their first meeting, Brand saw Cesar Lancis again. Cesar said had been making some contactswith different unions. He also exvlained that up that time he had been working with Tony Varona's groups named "Rescate". He ex his concern about the double role he was playing, working with Rescata at the time that he! WaSiG ne with Brand. Lancis said that in due course he could bring friends in Rescate to Brand's organizations Brand said that a week had elaosed no results had been attained and that he wanted results. Lancis said that he w: going to have results for the noxt meeting. Through Nelson Iglesias, Brand had a meeting with Joss Fernandez Planas and Eddy Crews. The meeting took place at Fernandez Plara's home in Vedado, Havana. rand asked Fernandez Plana's helo in order to get 02s. and Lois, and safes he Though Fernandez Planas agrsed to help, he was a little bit reluctant because ¢ connections with M&R. Ee said he was going to talk things over with his friend: promised to zive me an answer in a few days. Nevertheless, he accepted four hur pesos to be used in the renting of safe houses. Brand also asked about the boss of creating some disturbances at Havana University on the 50th of September, anniversary of Trejo's death.They said their chances were slight, because they could not burn the people they had at the University in that kind of action. He said that in the event of a riot at the University, they would be crushed by th communists and militia, already well trained, @quinped and organized. In his next meating with Brand, Nardo brouzht along a man by the name of Fransisco Roba:ma Dominguez, ex-lisutenent of the Rebel Army. Robayna had been member of the American Army, at Fort Dix, New Jerssy. He had been to Zurope as member of the American Army. He deserted to zo to Cuba and join the forces: figh Batistae He became a member of Faure Crotnn's .cuerrillas in the mountains of Las Villas. Robayna said that he was willing to join Nardo and Brand's effort. He that he had already been working in the recruiting of people. He assured Brand he could count with a. force of 150 men. He also said that he ~as going to get 2D Robayna was to work under the orders of Nardo. _ In his next mesting with Brand, Fernandez Planas returned the four hundred s he had previously received. He said hs could not take care of the renting of ss nous3s, because the people they could use for that, were needed at the MRR. levy Since Srand had promised him weapons, he said he vould keen trying to get Deo2s, LeZs. He said he wanted to see Brand again. 4 Benito Fernandez saw Srand again. He said that ne had talked with his broth: wno had been a Mayor in Santiago. de Cuba. had also talked with Luis Casero ¢ who had also been a Mayor in Santiazo de Cuba. They both promised him to start searching for De23. and L.Z23, in the southern.coast of the Province of Orienta, Srand also saw Nelson Iglesias again. He said it had been difficult to reer at the University, because everyone Seemed to delonz already to one orza » Nevertheless, he said, he had a grouo of arounth ten atudsents who we work with him, though some of them already belonzed to Sescata. He with a coy named Solis;~tho was heading Rescate!s sroug at the Unive these days, Jos, a member of the Company whom Erand had x Vagh ae tr ae org Qo ie} we} | cel 5 we fe +s we O O Hey t ch Uq w 3. med 5b 0 @ ok i) Oo ch ue} ma A ™ rie 310 a 3 4 Ne =) oa ms % ch O w o£ Oo ¥) ae ie) ry » ting neople out of Cuba + a. ore tb Py v 3 ¢ “ mw 3 O Docld: 32356641 Page 3