FIELD INFORMATION REPORT RE MEMBERS OF GROUP HEADED BY ROLAND MASFERER ROJAS (CUBAN AND HAITIAN EXILES) AMASSING IN MIAMI, FLORIDA FOR TRAINING
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: PROBABLY JMWAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 11/5/64
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. SINCE 16 DET 84, MAITIANS AND CUBAN EXILES WAR WERE piami fi

MEMLERS OF A GROUP HEADEDY

EX ROLANDUTTASFERRER ROJAS/ HAD BEEN

ARRIVING IN MIAMI. GROUPS OF TEN MEN WERE ARRIVING VIA GREYHOUND

iSUS. THE MEN WERE TO ARRIVE EVERY DAY UNTIL THE ENTIRE GROUP OF

156-205 MEN HAD MOVED TO MIAMI, THE MEN WERE BEING TRANSPORTED

FROM THE BUS STATION BY RAYMOND RAMIREZ, A HAITIAN, WHO WAS USING

A STATION WAGON WHICH WAS OWNED BY DAVID QUINTAS WHO RESIDED AT

IS N.W. 48TH STREET AND WHO WAS ALSO REPORTED TO RESIDE AT

2IE CAMPANA COURT, CORAL GABLES. THE STATION WAGON WAS A 56 •

MERCURY AND THE LICENSE NUMBER WAS IWI79548.. SOME OF THE MEN

WERE STAY CONG ATURAL ONCE NO LOLER LIQUE DONORIES MAN WAS CHASE da

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RENTED BY RAMIREZ FOR THE PURPOSE OF KOUSING THE MEN. OTKER

MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WERE LIVING AT THE STRANO KOTEL, 226 N.E.

ZNO STREET, MIAMI.

2. RAMIREZ AND HIS PARTNER ELVIO MIR, A CUBAN, WERE

ATTEMPTING TO FIND A LOCATION IN HOMESTEAD IN WHICH-THEY COULD PLACECA

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TENTS TO QUARTER THE ENTIRE GROUP. ONCE ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE

GROUP MAD ARRIVED, PAUL (LNU) AND FATHER MADRICAL (FNU) WERE TO ARRIVE

FROM NEW YORK TO COORDINATE THE GROUP'S DEPARTURE. THE MEN WERE

SCHEDULED TO DEPART ON ABOUT 24 OCT, BUT IT APPEARED THAT THERE

WOULD BE SOME DELAY, (FIELO COMMENT: IT WAS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

THAT OVIDO MIRO AND ROMAN RAMIREZ WERE RECRUITING CUBANS IN MIAMI

TO JOIN THE HAITIAN EXILE ACTIVIST GROUP "COMBAT.")

3. TWO TRUCKLOADS OF "HARDWARE" FOR THE GROUP WERE ENROUTE TO

MIAMI.

4. FIELD COMMENT: AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE REPORTED THAT AS OF

28 SEPT, CUBAN EXILES IN MIAMI WERE TALKING ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES

OF ROLANDO MASFERRER ROJAS WHICH WERE TAKING PLACE IN FLORIDA.

MASFERRER WAS SEEKING A GOOD LOCATION FOR A NEW TRAINING AND

RESIDENCE CAMP FOR HIS MEN, MANY OF ViON WERE ARRIVING IN MIAMI

FROM NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND OTHER NORTHERN CITIES. THE MEN

WHO WERE ARRIVING IN MIAMI WERE BRINGING THEIR EQUIPMENT AND

WEAPONS WITH THEM.

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FIELD DISSEM: CINCLANT, CINCSO, COMKWESTFOR.

MIAMI REPS

OF STATE, COAST GUARD,

CONFIDENTIAL GUALSO SENT PORT AU PRIANES)

FBI, CUSTOMS.

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