MEMO:BARTES, (CLARENS), FRANCISCO ANTONIO AKA BARTES, FRANK
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/28/1967
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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* 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 19927:

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28 December 1967

SUBJECI:

BARTES, (CLARENS), Francisco Antonio

ake BARIES, Frank

(See also HEMMING, Gerald P.)

ALLEGATION:

To date there has been no

information which involves Frank

BART'ES, Cuban exile, in GARRISON's

Investigation. However, as a New

Orleans citizen who was prominent

in Cuba, opposed to CASIRO, head of

the Cuban Revolutionary Council in

New Orleans, and known to Gerald

HEMMING and LABORDE, he may be in-

volved later.

SOURCE:

Memorandum dated 20 November

1967 from CI/R&A and Enclosure 14

of Memorandum No. 5 dated 7 August

1967.

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CIA CONNECTION:

'President of Cuban Railways, was

approved for contact use in January

1961 and May 1967. The FBI inter-

posed no objections to these contacts.

He was to furnish information con-

cerning Cuban railways. He was

granted & Provisions Operational

Approval on 4 January 1961 for

contact and assessment for use on

Project JMATE. This approval was

cancelled 31 August 1961. On

7 October 1965 Subject was granted

another POA for use as a pilot in

the Congo. He was covertly investigatei

with favorable results and received

an Operational Approval on 15 November,

1965 for use as a PM-Pilot in Africa.

He returned to the United States on

11 February 1966 and his clearance

was cancelled 28 October 1966.

OS INDICES RESULTS:

Subject 1s 47 years old (born 14 September 1920 in Havana,

Cuba). He was formerly President of Consolidated Railways of Cuba

and also owned sugar and rice plantations.

He left Cuba because of

his opposition to CASTRO and entered the U. S. on 4 January 1961.

An FBI report dated 14 June: 1963 from New Orleans, Louisiana concerned

a visit by BARTES to the New Orleans FBI office in which he offered

his services to the U. S. Government and said he would be willing to

cooperate with the U. S. Government in any acceptable plan the U. S.

might devise to combat CASTRO's government with no thought of personal

gain or lavor. On 20 December 1966 BARTES called the New Orleans DCS

office to inform that office that his mother had arrived from Cuba

and would be willing to provide information. He also stated that a

cousin, a 29 year old Cuban ballerina, Alicia Cruz BUSTILIO, not a

Commnist and still residing in Cuba, would be willing to help the >

U.S. if she were approached in the proper manner. There is no

record of Alicia CRUZ BUSTILLO in OS indices and no indication that

these offers were acceptable by the Agency.

GROUP 1

Excluded trem artamatic

downgrading and

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DETAILS:

In June 1962 Frank BARTES reported to our New Orleans DCS

office that Lawrence Joseph LABORDE, Gerald F• HEMMING, JT•, ano

Howard Kenneth DaVIs called on him and said they wanted to trair

Cuban refugees as guerrilla fighters and demolition experts for

use in Cuba. BARIES reached an agreement with LABORDE who, he said,

was anti-CIA.

Subject was head of the New Orleans Cuban Revolutionary

Council. A

• "States-Item" article for 21 July 1962 reported that

Gerald P. HEMMING, aka Jerry PATRICK,

"showed up in New Orleans

apparently at the invitation of local Cuban Revolutionary Council

and other Cubans who wanted to take direct action against

CASTRO. "

The article related how "PATRICK" made regular trips in and

out of New Orleans and was supplied with machine guns, explosives and

other military supplies. HEMMING, aka PATRICK, agreed to set up a

training base at Lake Ponchartrain but the Miami CRC headquarters

nixed this base for undisclosed reasons in July 1962, according to

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