MEMORANDUM: DOCUMENTATION OF CASTRO ASSASSINATION PLOTS
Originator: CIA
From: WARREN, R.A., ACTING C/LA DIV.
To: THE REVIEW STAFF
Document date: 08/11/1975
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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11 AUG 1975

MEMORANDUM FOR: The Review Staff

ATTENTION:

VIA:

SUBJECT:

Mr. Walter Elder

SA/DDO (John Waller)

Documentation of Castro Assassination Plots

REFERENCE:

Review

Staff 75/1696

I. Per referent request, we have conducted a review of our

files on incidents and individuals mentioned in

i the report given

by Fidel Castro to Senator McGovern.. This memorandum contains

the results of our traces on the alleged assassination plots and

the Cuban individuals mentioned in the report. It must be borne

in mind that our files are keyed primarily to

names of

individuals

and not by incidents or plots, thereby making the retrieval process

difficult. No project file bearing specifically on the subject of

assassination has been located.

vonetheless, what follows is keyed

to the

chronological order of the plots as

described in Castro's

report.

A. Mid 1960. Nothing has been located in records which

ties CIA

to this incident.

(1) Armando CUBRIA Ramos. According to CIA traces,

CUBRIA was a long-time sabotage expert and member of Castro's 26th

of July Movement until 1960, when he apparently turned on Castro.

He was arrested in 1960 for

organizing underground activity

against the Castro regime and was sentenced to 30 years imprison-

ment for conspiracy.

There is no record of CIA contact with CUBRIA.

(2) Mario TAULER Sague.

He was arrested on 12 July

1960 in Havana where he was caught unloading arms clandestinely

introduced into Cuba. There is no record of CIA contact with him.

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March 1961.

A number of the Cubans mentioned in

the incident were indeed employed by this Agency in the fields

of intelligence collection and paramilitary activities against

Cuba.

There

is nothing in the files reviewed to substantiate

that their mission was to assassinate Castro.

Some of those

mentioned were in fact involved in clandestine infiltration

into Cuba for the purposes of

gathering intelligence and

carrying out paramilitary activities in a March 1961

mission.

(1) Humberto SORI Marin.

on the individual. In November 1960

There is a 201 file

SORI, a disaffected Cuban

government employee, contacted a Cuban working on our behalf

and advised him-of his desire to work against the Castro

government.

On 1 December 1960 SORI was placed under house

arrest by the Cuban Government but escaped with the assistance

of unidentified friends on 21 December 1960. He was exfiltrated

to the Miami area, without CIA involvement,

on 19 February 1961.

He was met

by a CIA case officer on 2 March 1961 and debriefed

on his activities in Cuba. A Provisional Operational Approval

(POA) was requested for his use as

an intelligence source and

subsequently

granted in March 1961. He was met again by a

CIA case officer on 5 March 1961.

He returned to Cuba

clandestinely on or about 1l March 1961 without ClA assistance.

Shortly after his return to Cuba he was arrested and taken to

La Cabana Prison on 1l April 1961. On 20 April 1961 he was

executed by the Cuban militia.

(2) Rogelio GONZALEZ Corcho. There is a 201

file on the individual.

Our files indicate that he was

Secretary General of the Revolutionary Recuperation Movement

(MRR) in May 1960.

He was granted a POA for contact and

assessment on 1 July 1960.

In August 1960 he was met by a

CIA case officer

in the Washington area to be debriefed. He

was subsequently

trained by CIA in radio communications and

paramilitary operations.

He was infiltrated into Cuba on

6 September 1960 as part of a CIA paramilitary operation.

was provided with funds, arms, and explosives.

In March 1961

he was instructed to step up paramilitary operations in Northern

Cuba.

He was captured on or about 19 March 1961 and was executed

20 April 1961 by Cuban militiamen at La Cabana Prison.

(3) Manuel Lorenzo PUIG Miyar.

There is a 201

file on the individual. He was granted a POA for use in

paramilitary operations on 29 November 1960.

On or about

20 March

1961 he was captured and executed on 18 April 1961.

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(4) Nemesio RODRIGUEZ Navarette. Our only

record of subject indicates that he was involved in para-

military activities for CIA.

(5) Gaspar Dominguez TRUEBA Varona.

There is

a 201 file on the individual.

He was granted a POA 15 March

1961 for use as a legal traveler to Cuba and support agent

in intelligence collection and paramilitary operations.

was trained in intelligence gathering and communications

techniques.

cogether with 600 other prisoners. He was executed 19 April

1961 at La Cabana Prison.

(G) Eufemio Jose FERNANDEZ Ortega. There is a

201 file on the individual.

There is no known CIA involvement

with subject.

A one-time Chief of the Cuban National Secret

Police, he was arrested on trumped-up charges in April 1961.

He was executed on 20 April 1961 together with Humberto SORI

Marin and others.

(7) Rafael DIAZ Hanscom.

There is a 201 file

on the individual. A POA was granted 25 January 1961 for

use in intelligence collection and paramilitary operations.

He received intelligence and paramilitary training.

He was

involved in the March 1961 CIA paramilitary operation and

was captured by the Cubans.. He was executed on 20 April 1961.

(8) Gabriel RIANO Zequeiro.

One Gabriel RIANO

appeared on a list of prisoners in Guanajay Prison as of

May 1971. There is no known Agency connection with RIANO.

(9) We have no identifiable information or

indication of CIA involvement with Dionisio ACOSTA Hernandez;

Oreste FRIAS Roque; Eduardo LEMUS Perez; Narciso PERALTA Soto;

or Pedro de CESPEDE Company•

June 1961. Nothing has been located in records

which ties CIA to this incident.

(1) Juan BASIGALUPE Hornedo.

We have no pertinent

identifiable

information on this individual.

(2) Guillermo COULA (aka CAULA) Ferrer.

We have

no pertinent

identifiable information on this individual.

(3) Higinio MENENDEZ Beltran. His name appeared

on a list of prisoners in Guanajay Prison in Pinar del Rio,

Cuba.

There is no indication

he had any relationship with

CIA.

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D. July 1961.

Some of the individuals mentioned

in the report were indeed employed by this Agency in para-

military activities directed against Cuba.

There is no

confirmation in the records reviewed that their mission was

assassination of Castro.

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There is a 201

file on this individual. He was granted a

POA 30 January 1961

for support of paramilitary operations against Cuba.

He was

clandestinely infiltrated into Cuba in a CIA operation on

3 March 1961.

He was

arrested on or about 9 March 1961. As

of November 1972 he was believed to be held prisoner in Cuba.

(2) Adolfo MENDOZA. He is probably identifiable

with Adolfo GONZALEZ Mendoza.

There is a 201 file on the

individual. An Operational Approval (OA) was granted for his

use in paramilitary operations against Cuba.

He worked as a

radio operator for infiltration teams. He left Cuba via the

Chilean Embassy

and traveled Mexico/Panama/Chile.

• He later

left Chile for Honduras. There has been no contact with him

since 1962.

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(3) Jorge GARCIA Rubio Caro, There is a 201

file on the individual. A POA was granted 30 January 1961

for use in supporting paramilitary operations. He was

infiltrated into Cuba in a ClA operation on 3 March 1961.

He was arrested on or about 9 May 1961.

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(4) Jose Leopoldo PUJALS Mederos. There is a

201 file on the individual.

He was working for

CIA at the

time of his arrest on 9 August 1961. First recruited in

1960, a POA was granted on 5 January 1961 for use in para-

military operations.

There is no information contained in

the files reviewed

which indicate he was involved in assassi-

nation attempts.

(5) Alfredo IZAGÜIRRE.) There is a 201 file on

the individual.

He was recruited in 1960 for use in intelligence

gathering.

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September 1960 he was trained by CIA

in paramilitary

operations and

infiltrated into Cuba on 29 September 1960, when

he began organizing resistance groups at CIA direction. He

returned to the U.S. in February 1961 for debriefing and

returned to Cuba in

May 1961.

In July 1961 he reported that

sabotage operations were being planned for 26 July 1961 is no

Cuban refugee confirmed his arrest in July 1961.

information in the

files reviewed to indicate that he was

directed to attempt to assassinate Castro.

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(6) We have no identifiable information or

record of contact with Jose A. ROSABAL Rosabal, Emilio

QUINTANA Gonzalez, Rafael RIQUENES Maceo, Or JOSe A. GARCIA

Diaz.

E. July 1961. Although CIA had operational

relationships with various individuals mentioned in the

report, over a long period of time and relating to a variety

ot operations, there is nothing in files reviewed to indicate

hat CIA was involved in the described incident.

There is

also nothing in files reviewed to indicate that any of the

individuals mentioned were directed by CIA to assassinate

Castro.

(1) Tony VARONA.. There is a 201 file on the

individual. A POA was requested in August 1957 as a source

of information on anti-government activities in Cuba and

later amended for use in political action activities.

He

and organizations he represented were provided with material

and financial assistance in promoting anti-Castro activities

in Cuba until approximately 1962. There is no indication in

his file that he attempted to assassinate Castro or sought

CIA assistance for this purpose.

(2) Manuel RAY Rivero.

There is a 201 file

on the individual.

A POA was granted for use as a political

action agent on 25 October 1960. CIA provided support to a

variety of autonomous anti-Castro groups, including the one

represented by RAY.

In July 1966, subject reportedly developed

3 plan to assassinate castro.

This plot was not atClA direction

and no assistance was provided for it. CIA's relationship with

subject ended in 1967.

(3) Aureliano SANCHEZ Arango. There is a 201

file on the individual.

Subject was first contacted in

September 1948 and used sporadically as a casual informant

on Cuban internal politics.

A POA was granted on 12 August

1959 for use in political action activities.

He was debriefed

occasionally by CIA but after 1960 he was not used operationally.

(4) Francisco CHANES Armas..

One Francisco

CHANES is listed as an official of the Cuban Secret Revolu-

tionary Service (SSR) in May 1960.

The name of one Francisco

CHANES appears on a list of prisoners held in Guanajay Prison

as of May 1971.

There is no record of any CIA contact or

operational relationship with subject.

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(5) Alfredo Ruperto FERVANDEZ Gamez.

Traveled to Mexico, Brazil, and the U.S. in approximatelect

1960 as a Cuban agent with

the mission of penetrating anti-Castro

organizations.

There is no record of any CIA contact with or

operational relationship with subject.

(6) Florentino FERVANDEZ Rodriguez.

His name

appears on a list of prisoners held in Guanajay Prison as of

May 1971.

(7) Sergundo GONZALEZ Gonzalez. He is listed as

an agent of the Cuban

Revolutionary Secret Service

and special

agent to investigate anti-Castro activities in Marianao, Cuba in

1959-1960. There is no record of any CIA contact with or oper-

ational relationship with subject.

(8) We have no identifiable information or any

indication of CIA contact with Roberto COSCUYUELA Valcarcel,

Orlando ULACIA Valdes, Francisco GIL Cruz, Jose ACENA Quintana,

Pedro ASCARATE Carbonell, Angel del TORO Perez, Aurelio HERNAVDEZ

Marmol, Jorge VAZQUEZ Fernandez, or Mario CHANES dé Armas.

F. 13 September 1961.

There is nothing in the files

reviewed to link CIA with this incident. One of those mentioned

in the report was once considered for use in paramilitary

operations but was not actually used in any operation.

(1)

Antonio J. FERNANDEZ Rodriguez.

There is a

201 file on the

individual.

A POA was requested for subject's

use in paramilitary operations on 21 September 1960.

The request

later cancelled and subject was not ultimately used

in any

capacity.

(2) There is no information available on Juan Jose

MARTORE Silva, Manuel BARRERA Lopez, or Acelio LLERENA Morales.

G. October 1961. There is nothing in the records

reviewed to indicate

that CIA was involved in this incident.

(1) Bernardo PARADELA Ybarreche. Our files indicate

that subject's name

appeared on a list of Cuban political prisoners

in early 1967 who were to be released through efforts of the

Mexican Red Cross.

(2)

Raul FERNANDEZ'

Trevejo. Subject's name appears

on a list of prisoners held in Cuba at Guanajay Prison in May 1971.

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(3) Bernardo IGLESIA Winter. According to a

report dated

with

10 July 1962, a fnu IGLESIA, possibly identifiable

subject, was active in anti-Castro

organizations.

(4) Ruberto GONZALEZ Gonzalez. One Rupert

GONZALEZ, possibly identifiable with subject, was sentenced

to 20 years in prison for anti-Castro activities in Cuba.

He was arrested December 1963.

H. Early 1962.

Although CIA had an operational

relationship with one of the principals mentioned in the

report, there is nothing in the files reviewed to indicate

that he was directed by CIA to assassinate Castro.

(1) (Julio HERNANDEZ Rojo.) There is a 201 file

on the individual.

Subject worked in the Directorio

Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) against the Castro government

inside Cuba.

We had our first contact with him in September

1961 in the U.S. and provided him with some material assistance

for paramilitary operations.

activities was granted 3 January 1962 and cancelled & November

1962. The date of his return to Cuba has not been established.

the date ernis recurra

His POA for use in paramilitary

He was arrested in Cuba in approximately October 1962 and

subsequently sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.

(2) Raul CAY Hernandez and Raul CAY Gispert.

Our only trace is on one Raul CAY, indicating that in December

1963 he was suspected of being an agent of the Cuban internal

security service.

(3) Humberto GOMEZ Pena.

As of September 1962

subject was reportedly organizing Cuban resistance groups

among Masons inside Cuba.

(4) Jose Luis CUERVO Calvo. In 196z subject

was reported to be grand master of the Masonic Lodge in Cuba

and leader of anti-Castro Masons. He was arrested by the

Cubans on 21 September 1962.

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13 March 1963.

There is no indication in files

reviewed to indicate that CIA was involved in this incident.

We had sporadic contact with only one of the subjects mentioned

in the report.

Although we had several contacts

with him,

he was not under our direction and our last contact occurred

two years prior to the alleged incident.

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the individual.

a poulte watch too wes

(1) Higinio DIAZ Ane. There is a 201 file on

The CIA was in sporadic contact with subject

1960 until mid 1961. He participated

in the Bay of Pigs invasion. The Agency had no contact with

him after mid 1961.

(2) We found no identifiable information on

Samuel CARABALLO Moreno, Ricardo OLMEDO Moreno, Luis David

RODRIGUEZ Gonzalez, Jose Antonio LOPEZ Rodriguez, or Juan

Lucio MORALES Sosa.

7 April 1963. There is nothing in records

reviewed to indicate that

CIA was involved in this incident.

(1) We have no identifiable information on or

any indication that we ever had contact with Enrique RODRIGUEZ

Valdez, Ricardo LOPEZ Cabrera, Jorge Carlos ESPINOSA Escarles,

or Onorio TORRES Perdomo.

K. 26 July 1963. A review of files indicates no

CIA involvement in this incident or record of any CIA contact

with the principals mentioned in the report.

(1) Rene SIGLER-SANCHEZ Evias.

The name of one

Rene SIGLER appears on a list of prisoners held in Guanajay

Prison, Cuba as of May 1971.

(2) Jesus MONTES de Oca Cruz. He is listed in

1953 as a Communist Party member in Cuba and his name appears

on a list of prisoners held in Guanajay Prison as of May 1971.

(3) We have no identifiable information on

Eliecer RODRIGUEZ Suarez, Ibrahim MACHIN Hernandez or Oscar

SIBILIA Soria.

28 September 1963. Nothing has been located in

records which ties CIA directly to this incident.

(1) We have no identifiable information on

record of operational interest in Orlando Martiniano de la

cRoL sanchez,

Juan Israel CAZANAS Leon, Jesus Placido RODRIGUEZ

Mosquera, Luis Beltran Federico HERNANDEZ Gonzalez:

(2) Pierre Juan DIEZ de Ure.

There is a 201

file on the individual.

DIEZ is identified in our files as

a French-born naturalized Cuban citizen.

His file indicates

that he was arrested by the Cuban G-2 on 17 October 1963.

There is no record of any operational interest in him.

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(3) Françisco BLANCO de los Cuetos. Our only.

trace indicates that Francisco BLANCO was arrested by the

Cuban G-2 after having been denounced by Pierre Juan DIEZ

de Ure after his arrest, noted above.

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. March 1964. CIA had an operational relationship

with both of the persons mentioned in the report at the time

of the incident.

In 1963 and 1964 both persons made proposals

to CIA to assassinate Castro but in each instance they were

told that CIA and the USG did not condone such attempts and

no commitments were made.

(1) Mario SALABARRIA Aguiar. There is a 201

file on the individual. A POA was requested on subject for

use as an operational

support asset in an intelligence

gathering net inside Cuba.

We did not deal with him directly

but communicated through third parties. In early March 1964

subject proposed

Castro and asked for pistols, a submachine gun equipped with

a silencer, several .30 caliber machine guns, and some dynamite.

On 9 March

1964 CIA advised his contact to tell subject that

CIA would not help him in this effort. According to CIA

records,

subject and his accomplice were arrested in June or

July 1965 and sentenced to 30 years

B 05 confinement.

(2) (Bernardo MILANES Lopez

There is a 201

file on the individual.

He was recruited in December 1963

to be a source of intelligence within Cuba. At the time of

his recruitment he told CIA of his plans to assassinate

Castro and other Cuban government officials. He said that

he was one of the principal conspirators involved

in the

plot, together with Mario SALABARRIA Aguiar.

Subject requested

CIA assistance for the attempt. CIA immediately informed him

that the USG did not condone such attempts and no commitments

were made to assist him.

N. Mid 1964.

Some of those mentioned in the report

were indeed working for CIA at the time of their arrest.

Two

of the

subjects reportedly tried to

poison Castro but there

is no indication in the files reviewed that the assigned

mission of the group was to assassinate Castro or that the

poison was provided by CIA.

(1) Osvaldo Valentin FIGUEROA Galvez. Our only

trace on subject is that his name appeared on a list of

prisoners being held in Cuba at the Guanajay Prison as of

May 1971.

There is no record of any CIA contact or operational

relationship with him.

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(2) Ramon GRAU Alsina,

There is a 201 file on

the individual.

He was employed by CIA as head of an intelli-

gence gathering net at the time of his arrest on 21 January:

1965 and was convicted of espionage on behalf of CIA. There

is no indication in his file that he was directed to assassinate

Castro.

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(3) (Leopoldina 'GRAU Alsina (sister of Ramon GRAU

Alsina)).

There is a 201 file on the individual.

A POA was

granted

for her use as a source of intelligence in her

brother's net on 17 March 1961. However she was terminated

counterrevolutionary activities and attempted assassination

of Castro.

A separate report indicates that the Cuban internal

security

organs had allegedly found poisonous substances in

er residence.o5there is nothing in the files reviewed to

indicate that ceopoldina was directed by clA to assassinate

Castro or any record to indicate that the poisons were provided

by CIA.

(4) Alberto GRAU Sierra. He is a distant cousin

of Leopoldina GRAU Alsina.

He was arrested on 7 September 1964

tor an aborted assassination attempt against Castro. We can

find no record of any operational interest in him by ClA.

(5) Alberto CRUZ Caso. At the time of July 1966

alleged attempt to poison castro,

subject was working for

another U.S.

intelligence organization.

He was suspected of

being a double agent of the Cuban internal security service.

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(6) (Jesus Manuel CAMPANIONI Sousa There is a

201 file on the individual.

January 1965 he was employed by CIA as a member of an intelli:

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At the time of his arrest in

gence net gathering information.

There is no indication in

his file that he was directed to assassinate Castro.

(7) We have no identifiable information or any

record of CIA contact with Ramon GRAU Sierra,

Reinaldo FIGUEROA

Galvez, Felipe ALONSO Serrera, Jose Manuel RODRIGUEZ Cruz or

Santo

de la C. PEREZ Nunez.

0. September 1964.

Nothing has been located in

our records which indicates CIA involvement in this incident.

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(1) We have no identifiable information on

or record of operational interest in Nemisio CUBILLAS Perez,!

Angle Miguel ARENCIBIA Viran, or Rolando GALDOS Ranzola.

(2) Gregorio Reynaldo DIEGO Solano. The only

information on subject lists him as a prisoner in Guanajay

Prison as of May 1971.

records which ties CIA

Early 1965. Nothing has been located in our

to this incident.

(1) Julio Omar CRUZ Cecilia; Fermin GONZALEZ

Carballo; and Giraldo Reynaldo DIEGO Solano. We have no

identifiable information on and no record of operational

interest in them.

(2) Rolando GALDOS Rensoli. One reference

identifies subject as Cuban Army Lieutenant in approximately

May 1960.

July 1965. There is nothing in the records

reviewed to link CIA to this incident in any way.

(1) Enrique ABREU Vilahu. He have no identi-

fiable information on subject or any indication that we

had any contact with him.

(2) Carlos Vicente SANCHEZ Hernandez.

We

have no record of any CIA contact with hin.

One

Carlos

SANCHEZ was declared Persona non Grata fron Miami in 1962

because of affiliation with Cuban intelligence.

(3) Julio RUIZ Pitaluga. He have no record

of any CIA contact with him.

He was reported by a Cuban

refugee to have been a major in the Cuban Revolutionary

Army until 1960 when he became a member of an anti-Castro

organization.

He was arrested by the Cubans in July 1965

and as of September 1966 was believed to be held at La

Cabana Prison.

R.

1965.

Rolando CUBELA Secades et al. CUBELA's

201 file (14 volumes) is currently under intensive review

by a staff member of the SSC and therefore treatment of CIA

relationship to CUBELA and the others mentioned in the 1965

incident will not be included in this menorandum.

Once the

SSC staff member has concluded his review and selected key.

documents, we will

screen and forward then to the Review

Staff separately.

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S. Mid 1965 and May 1966. While some of the

individuals were considered

for use by this and other USG

they were not ultimately employed by CIA and

available records indicate we were not connected with them

at the time the incidents occurred.

(1) Antonio CUÉSTA del Valle.

' There is a 201

file on the individual. He was considered for use by CIA

in early 1961 as a crewman for a CIA vessel involved in

maritime operations.

The file does not reveal whether he

was actually used but all interest in him was terminated in

mid 1961.

He was subsequently reported to be a leader of

"Comandos L"

, a Miami-based anti-Castro exile organization.

He was captured in May 1966 after being wounded when his

group attempted to land a team of infiltrators near Havana.

CIA had no connection with the operation and the file does

not confirm that he was involved in an assassination

attempt

against Castro.

(2) Eugenio Enrique ZALDIVAR Cadenas. There is

a 201 file on the individual, indicating an interest in him

in April 1966 by another USG

agency. His file was closed on

7 June 1966.

He is identified

as a member of "Comandos L".

No further information is available.

(3) Sandelio Herminio DIAZ Garcia. There is

a 201 file on the individual.

The file was opened in

September 1957 because of his involvement with Honduran and

Costa Rican revolutionary activities.

He was debriefed by

a CIA case officer in September 1963 as a Cuban refugee.

At that time he claimed to be in contact

groups in Cuba and stated that he wanted with anti-Castro

to assassinate

Castro.

He indicated his intention to return to Cuba immediately.

We dropped contact with him at that time and never did have an

operational relationship with him.

In January 1966 he was

reported to be involved in a plan

by a Cuban emigre group to

infiltrate Cuba for the purpose of assassinating Castro. On

30 May 1966 he was identified by Radio Havana as a member of

a commando group killed while trying to land on the island.

However, in August 1973 an individual with the same name and

year of birth was reportedly involved in narcotics trafficking

in costa Rica.

subject to be identical with the narcotics trafficker in

Costa Rica. There

this.

is no further information to substantiate

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(4) Armando ROMERO Martinez. There is a 201 '

file on the individual.

His file was opened on 4 December

1963 in response to an indication of interest in him by

another USG agency. The relationship with him was termin-

ated following his arrest in Miami in January 1964 for illegal

use of narcotics and possession of

explosives and automatic

weapons.

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17 March 1967.

A review of files does not

confirm that CIA was involved in this incident.

(1) Felix ASENCIO Trejo.

There is a 201 file

on the individual which indicates that a POA was granted

on 4 March 1964 since subject was of interest to us as a

possible candidate for paramilitary operations against Cuba.

The POA was cancelled on 20 August 1964 with no indication

that subject was ever actually used operationally.

(2) Wilfredo MARTINEZ Diaz. We have no positively

identifiable information on this individual.

(3) Lazaro Gustavo ARECES Alvarez.

There is a

201 file on the individual which indicates that a POA was

granted 7 July 1964 for intended use as a seaman aboard a

CIA vessel involved in maritime operations.

The POA was

cancelled & September 1964 with the indication that the

subject was not hired.

U. 1971. There is nothing in files reviewed to

indicate that we had any contact with the subject mentioned

in the report or were involved

in the alleged

incident.

(1) Jesus DOMINGUEZ Benitez. No CIA traces on

subject were found.

2. It is noted that the above totals twenty-one separate

analytical sections whereas there are actually twenty-four

alleged assassination attempts. This is due to the fact that

the analyses of the two incidents of 26 July 1961 have been

combined since they both occurred

on the same day and were

allegedly. executed by the same group.

The treatment of the

alleged June 1965 poisoning attempt is part of the analysis

of the mid 1964 incident because the

alleged pepetrator 1s

related to the group described therein.

The incident described

in Castro's report as mid 1965' has been combined with the

analysis of the 1966 incident since both were allegedly carried

out by the same group.

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3.

In summary, of the twenty-four incidents described

in Castro's report, the files reviewed indicate that CIA

had no involvement

in fifteen of the cases; i.e., never had

any contact with the individuals mentioned

or was not in

contact with them at the time of the alleged incidents.

the remaining nine cases, CIA had operational

In

relationships

with some of the individuals mentioned but not for the purpose

ection of documents

to be sanitized.

This case (Rolando CUBELA Secades) was not

reviewed in connection with this memorandum.

Of the twenty-

three cases reviewed, nothing has been found to substantiate

the charges that CIA directed its agents to assassinate Castro.

Acting Chief

Latin America Division

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