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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

CORNET

13 December 1967

SUBJECT:

BALISIA, Laureano

(See also DAVIS, Rudolph Richard)

ALLEGATION:

CIA CONNECTION:

Rudolph Richard DAVIS, Cuban

exile questioned by GARRISON's staff

In connection with a training camp

for Cubans at Lacombe, Louisiana

told the FBI In May 1964 that Laureano

BATISTA, sent him 19 men from Miami In

response to a request from DAVIS 1n

1963. The men stayed at a home near

Lacombe, Louisiana.

Laureano BATISTA, Secretary

of Military Affairs, Executive

Connittee, Movimiento Democratica

Cristiano (MDC), Miami, was

granted a Provisional Operational

Approval on 30 December 1959

and an Operational Approval on

20 February 1960 for use as a

PP Agent, Havana, Cuba.

SOURCE:

Memorandum No. 5, Enclosures 3

and 7.

RETURN TO CIA

Background Use Only

Do Not Reproduce

OS INDICES RESULTS:

Subject, a 32 year old Cuban exile, was from a wealthy Cuban.

family and in Cuba he was a banker. He was granted a POA in December

1.959 and an OA 1n February 1960 for use as a PP agent in Havana, Cuba.

A copy of a letter in Subject's file dated 22 November 1963

signed by Subject as Secretary for Military Affairs, Executive Committee,

Movimiento Democrata Cristiano 1s addressed to Major General Bela K.

offered the services of the MDC in arranging meetings and discussions

with other anti-CASTRO organizations and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters.

Ine fungarian Freedom Fighters were Agency sponsored and Covert Action 24

Staffiwas interested in information on the MDC before granting approval

for contact between the two organizations.

DETAILS:

During an Interview with the FBI in October 1963 in New York

Rudolph Richard DAVIS advised that in January 1961 he was in New York

where he served as coordinator between the MDC and the New York Police

Department. DAVIS also said that some nineteen men had been sent from

his,

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• Mlami to New Orleans by Iaureano BATISTA in response to a request

by. DAVIS for men to work In a lumber business with which he was

connected. In Guatemala.

The men stayed at a home near Lacombe,

nearby, the men became disgruntled and were

outstand When them seized done until to peed to

Guatemala. So the lumber company paid their fare back to Miami.

Some of the names of these men were as follows: Victor

PANEQUE, Leodorino INTERIAN, Fernando FERNANDEZ, and fnu FORNES.

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