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14-00000 — -. " pgeTRaLLt ISS EM SOURCE HAS CONTACTS WHO RECOGNIZE HIM AS A CHANNEL TO U.S. INTELLIGENCE. | THIS INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM A CUBAN EXILE WHO SPOKE WITH ATON CONSTANZO PALAU. _ on FY avai Fucaion US _ (FIELD COMMENT: IT WAS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT A COMMANDO CONFWENTIAL CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY  @ PRICRITY Intelligence Information Cable. 4 COUNTRY DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CUBA TOCS DB-315/02029-65 co eee DATE OF 40 JUNE 1965 DISTR. 11 JUNE 1965 : INFO, : i : ; a : SUBJECT F ALLEGED READINESS OF A GROUP OF CUBAN EXILES ANG NORTH ’ AMERICANS, TO BE TRANSPORTED TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC i To MOIN THE RANKS OF GENERAL ANTONIO IMBERT BAPRERAS. PLACE & ; DATE ACQ. - UNITED STATES, MIAMI C11 JUNE 1965), REF wn 88711 SOURCE FIELD REPORT NO. UFG-7268. f ‘AND ; APPRAISAL: - A MIAMI BUSINESSMAN WHO WAS A. RESIDENT OF HABANA FOR SEVERAL YEARS. | H | i i TEAM OF ig CUBAN EXILES | AND 1) AMERICANS WAS BEING WAC a MIAMI, Ct CY FLORIDA, BY ODEL! ‘GARCIA DERI ZANZ AND GERALD PATRICK! SkeTING, ye sz AN: \N__ AMERICAN ADVENTURER AND. -SOLDJER=OF-FORTUNE sronfloSfaF Pains i AND | RAMOW, ESCARDA RUBIO WERE REPUTED TO BE LEADERS WITHIN THE GROUP. 7 THE MEN WERE BEING RECRUITED FOR USE BY DOMINICAN GENERAL ANTONIO IMBERT BARRERAS, HEAD OF THE LOYALIST FORCES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, IN HIS EFFORTS TO TRY TO TOPPLE FRANCISCO CAAMANO DENO, LEADER OF THE REBEL FORCES. THE FINANCIAL BACKER OF THE COMMANDO TEAM HAS BEEN DESCRIBED IN PREVIOUS REPORTS AS AN AMERICAN LAWYER ‘This material containa information affecting the Nefisaal Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Bapfonage Lawa, Tide ia, USO. Secs. 783 ané TH, the transmission of igélauen of which in any manner to an usauthorived person ts prohibited Ly law. CONFIDENTIAL ss . CONTROLLED arssew STATE/INT ONE OCR ORR NIC | AID BIA = ARMY/ACSt NAVY AIR SCS AD/CI 2
14-00000 ~ CONFIDENTIAL “eS ee pas ne obese - POSSIBLY REFER TO ODELIO GARCIA DERIZANZ. ) TOT Se NAST Re cm wane ooo OS Tem am fn tae BEAN OH meme oe ENE POR elm oe mm Oe a i CONTROLLED DISSE TN IN 88711 TDCSOB~315/02029- PAGE 2 AS WELL AS A RICH DOMINICAN. BUSINESSMAN LIVING IN MIAMI). 2. ON 1¢ JUNE 1965, ATON ‘CONSTANZO PALAU, 752 SW 4TH STREET, MIAMI, SAID THAT MORE THAN 7% CUBAN EXILES. PLUS AN UNSPECIFIED NUMSER OF NORTH AMERICANS HAD BEEN RECRUITED AND WERE STAND ING BY’ ‘To DEPART FOR THE: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC SOMETIME BETWEEN 11 AND 21 JUNE, CONSTANZO “SAID THAT THESE ‘PERSONS HAD BEEN "CONTRACTED FOR" BY AN AMERICAN FIRM BASED IN SANTO DOMINGO, WHICH HAS AN OFFICE IN MIAMI, AND THAT THESE "WORKING CONTRACTS" HAD BEEN APPROVED BY THE: DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT. ( FIELD COMMENT: PRESUMABLY SY THE JUNTA FORCES. ) 3. ACCORDING To CONSTANZO, |THE MEN ARE TO BE TRANSPORTED TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC FROM MIAMI EITHER BY AIRCRAFT OR BY SHIP AND ARE TO BE TAKEN TO THE POINT OF EMBARCATION BY BUSES THAT ARE TO BE HIRED FOR THIS PURPOSE, -THE MEN WILL BE DIVIDED INTO FIVE GROUPS AND WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING GROUP LEADERS: GERALD PATRICK HEMI4ING, EUGENIO MARTI PEREZ-CARMENATI, CONSTANZO, ODILIC OTEZA, AND ANOTHER UNIDENTIFIED. MAN. (FIELD COMMENT: ODILIO OTEZA MAY He CONSTANZO CONFIRMED THAT THE PARTICIPANTS ARE TO RECEIVE A SALARY OF $2gp PER MONTH, PLUS A. BONUS OF $59 A DAY WHILE THEY ARE IN THE, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; CONSTANZO STRESSED THAT NO MONEY 1S - | BEING PAID TO THESE MEN IN ADVANCE, BUT THAT THEY ARE TO BE PAID EITHER IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC OR AFTER THEY RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES. Os "ALTHOUGH ‘HE: DOES NOT KNOW ALL! THE DETAILS OF THE MILITARY PLAN, CONSTANZO SAID THAT THE MAL NPOBUECT OF THE OPERATION 1S TO GONFIDENTIAL ae Sp Co _ CONTROLLED Disseyy MPO (203
14-00000 7" set & seco nens Wires menwarn oe wow tee Bee note meet GRD he aoemet er oe oO nee awn tee ura Le \ : ou ossey . =| in 88711 " TDCSD8-315/02029- PAGE CONFIDENTIAL t 315/020%3 3 FIGHT THE CAAMANO FORCES, HE BELIEVES. THAT SINCE THESE FORCES ARE O | CIN THE HILLS OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIT,)THE CUBAN EXILES WILL Kn | | — , (Ef, PROBABLY BE DEPLOYED THERE. CONSTANZO EMPHASIZED THAT ABSOLUTELY of>! NO POLITICAL COMMITMENTS HAD BEEN MADE TO THE CUBAN EXILES AND le THAT THEIR “SOLE MOTIVATION IS MONETARY. _ 6. FIELD DISSEM: CINCSO, CINCLANT, COMKWESTFOR, MIAMI REPS OF TATE, (FBI } CUSTOMS, BORDER PATROL, I&NS, FAA AND USCG. (ALSO SENT /SaNTO-BOMINGO AND PANAMA civ [ — CONTROLLED pisstt LUAU OLT anne Aarts cae ahaa ina FTE Tt aT ode Saw eatin go . .