aA STANDARD FORM NO. 6&4 .To advise of the information separa she poees ot che at Bayan and the Miami" Office conce vy Attachment (107 if 0 mot e ed SS cavrstastorrcoe mt eee ve FCORDED «129 dadBP T85E AY Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To Mr. A. sebeteogh aan DATE: May 1h, 1952 FROM : Mp, F. J. Baung let ©. ° WWE SUBJECT: GART.OS ~PRIO. Qocankos, ET AL. - FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTER - CUBA iA HAS NO OBJECTION TO Baer a NEUTRALITY MATTERS DECLASSI'CATION ONDIOR, 07 (iS RELEACE UF vik INFOMATION | Ee iN THIS DOCUMENT. mp 4-304 Ro PURPOSE: 210 ASE. M0. 7 . DETAILS: By letter of May 6, 1952, the Legal Attache at Havana advised that Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Ugalde Carrillo, Chief of ides to the Chief of Staff of the Cuban Army, contacted the hogal. Atbac he's office under the Instructions of _President Batista. he purpose of Carrillofs contact was to “make 3 availabl We ; report prepared by an agent identified M-1,...S¢ ro osed lans of a Broup | “or President. Batista's enemie ove throw.aim. Carrillo did not tdentify Agent M-1 to the Legal Attache. According to M-1, elements of the former Prio govermment are conspiring to plan a counter mevorutton to overthrow the Batista government around the end of May o first of June of this year. From the sub stance GP the Seaport Agent M-1 appear as one of the co-conspirators. proposed revolution N M-1 stated he first heard of the shortly after March 10, 195<, when he was approached by a forier Captain tn “the Cuban Navy during the Prio regime. This former Captain advised M-1 that plans were being formulated to take. some action against the Batista govermment. Subsequently, on™ March 18, 1952, M-1 was invited to a meeting of six or eight 6f the co-conspirators. M-1 was advised that the forces. planning the counter revolution were known as the Junta Bev 1cionaria Constitutional. “At this Warch 18, 1952 meeting, two alt plans of revolution were SB aTseussSa, “The ‘first ne enerenierntartaeten rE TEESE OHARA UHC OHO RAT ERE IBES 8 HE MMM OI TE, »"exa trevor ON CORTATHED oa Ph, , : \
leased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1999 (44 0S¢ FiI07 Hote. ATE: 11-14- 2017 R rd The Miami Office by letter dated May 8, 1952, reported: that John T. Pilcher, Assistant Chief, U. S. Border Patrol, Miami, advised on May ¢e, 1952, that Haward William Murphy, a piloty departed from International Airport, Miami, at 4:00 P.M., May 1, 1952, in a plane and that his passengers were Aureliano Sanchez Arango and Raul Rodriguez Santos. Pilchér stated that he had learned that Murphy and the two companions were then en route from Nassau to Caicos Island, which is located about 250 miles east of the Island of Cuba and about hOO miles north of the Dominican Republic. Pilcher stated that Arango and Santos came into the United States on March 17, 1952, along with Prio, from 7 Mexico, and that he had heard rumors of a nonspecific type to the effect that Prio and some of his associates are planning a revolution to overthrow Batista. . Pilcher, on May 5, 1952, advised the Miami Office that the flight plan filed on behalf of Murphy indicated his plane .. arrived in Nassau at 5:00 P.M. on May 1, 1952 from Miami. Pilcher reported that the Nassau Civil Aeronautics Authorities observed the activities of the plane and reported it did not leave until 12:59 P.M., May. 2, 1952, at which time Murphy and his two passengers departed for Caicos Island, British West Indies. They announced to Civil Aeronautics Authorities that they would return May 3, 1952. According to Pilcher, this plane, piloted by Murphy, landed at li:15 P.M., May 2, 1952, at Santiago de Cuba, without. | passengers. It then went to Camaguey s Cuba; on the following | morning and took off from Camaguey at about 11:33 A.M., May 3, 1982, and arrived at Miami International Airport at 2:00 P.M. on the same day, without passengers. This plane was: met at International Airport, upon arrival, by Pilcher, who. interviewed..Murphy—conce ming his. abs passengers, but Tuy "refused. (e) answer any questions. nee. The Miami Office by teletype of May 12, 1952, has advised that the Immigration and Naturalization Service manifest on Pan American Airways flight 406 March 19, 1952 reflects that Jose Luis Francisco Fernandez Espinosa, age 28, a Cuban national, Livio Hermogenes Peralta Recojo, age 2, a Cuban national, and Ricardo Florencio Suarez Rodriguez, age 25, a Cuban national, travelled as a party from Havana, Cuba, to Miami, Florida, and were all destined to the Leamington Hotel, Miami. These apparently are the individuals whom M-1 reported went to Miami on March 19, 1952, to confer with former President Prio and from the airline manifest it appears that M-1, referred to above, is Suarez Rodriguez. oS a serena NMS Cec NPL SRR PPE cee ease eI PRESEICRERMNN omen pepsi onne ss HE TE REVIEWED BY BBI/JFK TASK FORCE ; ON “aah - 3- OE IN PULL. Docld: 32298925 Page 6